 The breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted a dreary wreck, And a whooping billow swept the crew Like icicles from her deck. She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked soft as carded wool, But the cruel rocks, they gored her side Like...  The Children's Garland from the Best Poets - Pagina 80geredigeerd door - 1882 - 344 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1874 - 384 pagina’s
...a sheeted ghost, the vessel swept Tow'rds the reef of Norman's Woe. ring, BALLADS AND OTHER POEMS. And ever the fitful gusts between A sound came from...trampling surf On the rocks and the hard sea-sand. The breakerswere right beneath her bows, She drifted a dreary wreck, And a whooping billow swept the crew... | |
 | Hymns - 1875 - 336 pagina’s
...Christ who stilled the waves On the Lake of Galilee. And fast through the midnight dark and drjar, Through the whistling sleet and snow, Like a sheeted...deck. She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked soft as carded wool ; But the cruel rocks they gored her sides, Like the horns of an angry bull.... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1874 - 454 pagina’s
...dark and drear, Through the whistling sleet and snow, Like 'a sheeted ghost, the vessel swept Towards the reef of Norman's Woe. And ever the fitful gusts...icicles from her deck. She struck where the white and flcecy waves Looked soft as carded wool, But the cruel rocks, they gored her side Like the horns of... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 452 pagina’s
...sleet and snow, Like a sheeted ghost, the vessel swept, Towards the reef of Norman's Woe. And over, the fitful gusts between, A sound came from the land...deck. She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked soft as carded wo<pl, But the cruel rocks, they gored her side Like the horns cf an angry bull.... | |
 | 1875 - 448 pagina’s
...dark and drear, Through the whistling sleet and snow, Like a sheeted ghost the vessel swept Towards the reef of Norman's Woe.* And ever, the fitful gusts...sound of the trampling surf, On the rocks and the hard sea sand. The breakers were right beneath her bows ; She drifted a dreary wreck; And a whooping billow... | |
 | Henry Major - 1875 - 268 pagina’s
...dark and drear, Through the whistling sleet and snow, Like a sheeted ghost the vessel swept Towards the reef of Norman's Woe. And ever the fitful gusts...from the land ;— It was the sound of the trampling sttrf On the rocks and the hard sea sand. The breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted a dreary... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale (Jr.) - 1921 - 280 pagina’s
...dark and drear, Through the whistling sleet and snow, Like a sheeted ghost, the vessel swept . Towards the reef of Norman's Woe. And ever the fitful gusts...the land ; It was the sound of the trampling surf The breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted a dreary wreck, And a whooping billow swept the... | |
 | Charles H. Sylvester - 1922 - 538 pagina’s
...dark and drear, Through the whistling sleet and snow. Like a sheeted ghost, the vessel swept Towards the reef of Norman's Woe. And ever the fitful gusts...deck. She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked soft as carded wool, But the cruel rocks, they gored her side Like the horns of an angry bull.... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1922 - 728 pagina’s
...dark and drear, Through the whistling sleet and snow, Like a sheeted ghost, the vessel swept Tow'rds the reef of Norman's Woe. And ever the fitful gusts...And a whooping billow swept the crew Like icicles froui her deck. She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked soft as carded wool, But the cruel... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1922 - 910 pagina’s
...dark and drear, Through the whistling sleet and snow. Like a sheeted ghost, the vessel swept Tow'rds the reef of Norman's Woe. And ever the fitful gusts...the hard seasand. The breakers were right beneath And a whooping billow swept the crew Like icicles from her deck. She struck where the white and fleecy... | |
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