| Pen and pencil pictures - 1866 - 176 páginas
...moon had a golden ring, And to-night no moon we see ! " The skipper he blew a whiff from his pipe, And a scornful laugh laughed he. Colder and louder...shuddered and paused, like a frighted steed, Then leaped a cable's length. " Come hither ! come hither ! my little daughter, And do not tremble so ; For I can... | |
| Standard poetry book - 1866 - 300 páginas
...And to-night no moon we see!" The skipper he blew a whiff from his pipe, And a scornful laugh laugh'd he. Colder and louder blew the wind, A gale from the...The snow fell hissing in the brine, And the billows froth'd like yeast. Down came the storm, and smote amain The vessel in its strength; She shudder'd... | |
| Robert Armstrong (master of Madras coll) - 1866 - 142 páginas
...cheeks like the dawn of day, And her bosom white as the hawthorn buds That ope in the month of May. Down came the storm, and smote amain The vessel in its strength ; She shudder'd and paused, like a frighted steed, Then leap'd her cable's length. " Come hither ! come hither... | |
| James Stuart Laurie - 1866 - 236 páginas
...cheeks like the dawn of day, And her bosom white as the hawthorn buds, That ope in the month of May. Down came the storm, and smote amain, The vessel in its strength ; She shudder'd and paused, like a frighted steed, Then leaped her cable's length. " Come hither ! come hither!... | |
| Penny readings - 1867 - 270 páginas
...moon we see !" ., The skipper he blew a whifE from his pipe, And A scornful laugh laughed he. Culder and louder blew the wind, A gale from the north-east...in its strength ; She shuddered and paused like a frightened steed, Then leaped her cable's length. " Come hither — come hither, my little daughter,... | |
| Golden gift - 1868 - 168 páginas
...moon had a golden ring, And to-night no moon we see ! ' The skipper he blew a whiff from his pipe, And a scornful laugh laughed he. Colder and louder...hither ! my little daughter, And do not tremble so ; I.'or.I can weather the roughest gale That ever wind did blow.' He wrapped her warm in his seaman's... | |
| John Hugh Hawley - 1868 - 298 páginas
...moon had a golden ring, And to-night no moon we see !" The skipper, he blew a whiff from his pipe, A.nd a scornful laugh laughed he. Colder and louder...a frighted steed, Then leaped her cable's length. n. " Come hither ! come hither ! my little daughter ! And do not tremble so, For I can weather the... | |
| William S. Martin - 1868 - 142 páginas
...— The Signal Seen— Saved — He Works his Passage to England— Is Tired of a Seafaring Life. " Colder and louder blew the wind, A gale from the north-east...a frighted steed, Then leaped her cable's length." — LONGFELLOW. " WHEN I was at the university, I had indeed been accustomed to low society ; but when... | |
| Floyd Baker Wilson - 1869 - 208 páginas
...moon had a golden ring, And to-night no moon we see ! '' The skipper he blew a whiff from his pipe, And a scornful laugh laughed he. Colder and louder...in its strength ; She shuddered and paused, like a frightened steed, Then leaped her cable's length. " Come hither ! come hither ! my little daughter,... | |
| Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 páginas
...the moon had a golden ring, And to-night no moon we see !" The skipper he blew a whiff from his pipe, And a scornful laugh laughed he. Colder and louder...in its strength ; She shuddered and paused like a frightened steed,. Then leapt her cable's length. " Come hither — come hither, my little daughter,... | |
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