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,... Pigeon Cove and Vicinity - Página 90por Henry C. Leonard - 1873 - 193 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1866 - 234 páginas
...came from the land. It was the sound of the trampling surf On the rocks and the hard sea sand : The breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted...whooping billow swept the crew Like icicles from her deck !" Yes : the fate of the gallant ship was sealed. The mighty efforts of captain and brave crew were... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1840 - 688 páginas
...came from the land ; It was the sound of the trampling surf On the rocks and the hard sea-sand. The breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted...deck. She struck where the white and fleecy waves Look'd soft as carded wool; But the cruel rocks they gored her side Like the horns of an angry bull.... | |
| 1840 - 818 páginas
...came from the land; It was the sound of the trampling surf, On the rocks and the hard sea-sand. Tk« breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted...from her deck. She struck where the white and fleecy wavM Look'd soft as carded wool, But the cruel rocks, they gored her side Like the horns of an angry... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1840 - 686 páginas
...sound of the trampling surf On the rocks and the hard sea-sand. The breakers were right beneath heb bows, She drifted a dreary wreck, And a whooping billow...deck. She struck where the white and fleecy waves Look'd soft as carded wool; But the cruel rocks they gored her side Like the horns of an angry bull.... | |
| 1842 - 498 páginas
...and a Viking wilh nothing on earth to employ himself with in a dull country, fell onliis spear. The breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted...they gored her side Like the horns of an angry bull. The rattling shrouds, all sheathed in ice, With the masts went by the board ; Like a vessel of glass,... | |
| 1842 - 818 páginas
...ballad is vivid nd touching in the highest degree. How striking are the comparisons in this verse ; She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked...rocks, they gored her side, Like the horns of an angry hull. "To the River Charles, "is as sweet and pleasant a string of verses as we have read for many... | |
| Seba Smith, Lawrence Labree - 1844 - 498 páginas
...came from the land ; It was the sound of the trampling surf, On the rocks and the hard sea-sand. The breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted...deck. She struck where the white and fleecy waves Look'd soft as carded wool, But the cruel rocks, they gored her side Like the horns of an angry bull.... | |
| Anne Marsh-Caldwell - 1850 - 312 páginas
...expect to be in this life. And this ends part the second of my story. PART III. CHAPTER I. She strtick where the white and fleecy waves Looked soft as carded...they gored her side, Like the horns of an angry bull. LONGFELLOW. THE captain paced the deck, looking up from time to time anxiously at the threatening sky.... | |
| 1851 - 1220 páginas
...cime from the laml ; It was the sound of the trampling surf, On the rocks and the hard sea-sand. " The breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted...rattling shrouds, all sheathed in ice, With the masts weut by the board; Like a vessel of glass, she stove and sank : Ho ! ho ! the breakers roared ! " At... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 páginas
...came from the land ; It was the sound of the trampling surf On the rocks and the hard sea-sand. The breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted...dreary wreck, And a whooping billow swept the crew She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked soft as carded wool ; But the cruel rocks, they... | |
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