 Looked soft as carded wool, But the cruel rocks, they gored her side Like the horns of an angry bull. 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...  Hesperia: An American National Poem. I-XII - Page 29by Harry Lyman Koopman - 1919Full view - About this book
 | 1840 - 818 pages
...day-break, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood aghast, To see the form of a maiden fair, Lash'd close to a drifting mast. The salt sea was frozen...wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight and the snow ! Christ save us all from a-death like this On the reef of Norman's Woe ! COMING OUT....BT JOHW NIAL.... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1840 - 686 pages
...daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood aghast To see the form of a maiden fair Lash'd close to a drifting mast. The salt sea was frozen...tears in her eyes; And he saw her hair, like the brown sea- weed, On the billows fall and rise. Such was the wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight and the... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1842 - 144 pages
...masts went by the board ; Like a vessel of glass, she strove and sank, Ho ! ho ! the breakers roared ! At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood...wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight and the snow ! Christ save us all from a death like this, On the reef of Norman's Woe ! fr I THE LUCK OF EDENHALL.... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1842 - 148 pages
...masts went by the board ; Like a vessel of glass, she strove and sank, Ho ! ho ! the breakers roared ! At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood...in her eyes ; And he saw her hair, like the brown sea- weed, On the billows fall and rise. Such was the wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight and the... | |
 | 1842 - 498 pages
...went by the board ; Like a vessel of glass, she strove and sank, Ho ! ho ! the breakers roared ! , At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood...maiden fair, Lashed close to a drifting mast. The salt-sea was frozen on her breast, The salt tears in her eyes ; And he saw her hair, like the brown... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1843 - 570 pages
...masts went by the board ; Like a vessel of glass, she strove and sank, Ho ! ho ! the breakers roared ! At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood...wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight and the snow ! Christ save us all from a death like this, On the reef of Norman's Woe ! THE LUCK OF EDENHALL. FROM... | |
 | Seba Smith, Lawrence Labree - 1844 - 498 pages
...day-break, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood aghast, To see the form of a maiden fair, Lash'd close to a drifting mast. The salt sea was frozen...wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight and the snow ! Christ save us all from a death like this On the reef of Norman's Woe! NEW SONG. BY THE LATE THOMAS... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 500 pages
...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...wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight and the snow ! Christ save us all from a death like this, On the reef of Norman's Woe ! THE LUCK OF EDENHALL. FROM... | |
 | Marlborough coll, mus. soc - 1860 - 104 pages
...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...in her eyes ; And he saw her hair, like the brown sea- weed, On the billows fall and rise. Such was the wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight and the... | |
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