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" And ever the fitful gusts between A sound 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 a dreary wreck, And a whooping billow swept the crew Like icicles... "
Voices of the Night - Page 46
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1843 - 183 pages
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 8

Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1840 - 686 pages
...billow swept the crew Like icicles from her deck. She struck where the white and fleecy waves Look'd soft as carded wool; But the cruel rocks they gored...masts went by the board, Like a vessel of glass, she stove and sank, Ho 1 ho ! the breakers roar'd ! At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood...
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The Rover, Volume 2

Seba Smith, Lawrence Labree - 1844 - 498 pages
...they gored her side Like the horns of an angry bull. Her rattling shrouds, all sheath'd in ice, AVith the masts went by the board ; Like a vessel of glass, she stove and sank, Ho ! ho ! the breakers roar'd ! At day-break, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood...
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Poems, Volume 1

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 500 pages
...never a word, A frozen corpse was he. Lashed to the helm, all stiff and stark, With his face turned to the skies, The lantern gleamed through the gleaming...masts went by the board ; Like a vessel of glass, she stove and sank, Ho ! ho ! the breakers roared ! At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood...
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Poems

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 462 pages
...Lake of Galilee. And fast through the midnight dark and drear, Through the whistling sleet and snow, And ever the fitful gusts between A sound came from...masts went by the board ; Like a vessel of glass, she stove and sank, Ho ! ho ! the breakers roared ! At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood...
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Programmes of evening concerts

Marlborough coll, mus. soc - 1860 - 106 pages
...whistling sleet and snow, Like a sheeted ghost, the bark swept on Towards the reef of " Norman's Woe." Her rattling shrouds, all sheathed in ice, With the...masts, went by the board; Like a vessel of glass, she stove and sank, Ho 1 ho ! the breakers roared ! At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood...
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The American Whig Review, Volumes 13-14

1851 - 1220 pages
...swept Towards the reef of Norman's Woe. "And ever the fitful gusts between Abound cime from the laml ; It was the sound of the trampling surf, On the rocks...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...
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The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted a dreary wreck, And a whooping billow swept the crew She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked...masts went by the board ; Like a vessel of glass, she stove and sank, Ho ! ho ! the breakers roared ! At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach A fisherman stood...
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The American Whig Review, Volume 13

1851 - 724 pages
...cruel rocks, they gored her side, Like the home of an angry bull. Hr rattling shrouds, all eheathed in ice, With the masts went by the board; Like a vessel of gliiss, she stove and sank : Ho ! bo ! the breakers roared ! - At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach,...
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Poems, Volume 1

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853 - 504 pages
...whistling sleet and snow, Like a sheeted ghost, the vessel swept Towards the reef of Norman's Woe. And eve/ the fitful gusts between A sound came from the land...masts went by the board ; Like a vessel of glass, she stove and sank, Ho ! ho ! the breakers roared ! At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood...
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Poems, Volume 1

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853 - 496 pages
...where the white and fleecy waves Looked soft as carded wool, But the cruel rocks, they gored her. side Her rattling shrouds, all sheathed in ice. With the...masts went by the board ; Like a vessel of glass, she stove and sank, Ho ! ho ! the breakers roared ! At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood...
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