 The salt sea was frozen on her breast, The salt tears in her eyes; And he saw her hair, like the brown seaweed, On the billows fall and rise. Such was the wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight and the snow! Christ save us all from a death like this,...  Ballads and Other Poems - Page 47by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1842 - 132 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1840 - 818 pages
...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 aghast, To see the form of a maiden fair, Lash'd close to a drifting mast. The salt sea was frozen on her breast, The salt tears in her eyes... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1840 - 686 pages
...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 aghast To see the form of a maiden fair Lash'd close to a drifting mast. The salt sea was frozen on her breast, The salt tears in her eyes;... | |
 | 1842 - 498 pages
...soft as carded wool, But the cruel rocks, they gored her side Like the horns of an angry bull. The rattling shrouds, all sheathed in ice, With the masts...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... | |
 | Seba Smith, Lawrence Labree - 1844 - 498 pages
...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 aghast, To see the form of a maiden fair, Lash'd close to a drifting mast. The salt sea was frozen on her breast, The salt tears in her eyes;... | |
 | 1879 - 442 pages
...the dawn of day, And her hosom white as the hawthorn buds, That ope in the month of May. * * * * " At daybreak on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood..." The salt sea was frozen on her breast, The salt tear* in her eyes ; And he saw her hair like the brown seaweed, On the billows fall and rise. " Such... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 462 pages
...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,...of a maiden fair, Lashed close to a drifting mast. And he saw her hair, like the brown sea- weed, On the billows fall and rise. Such was the wreck of... | |
 | 1851 - 724 pages
...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...of a maiden fair, Lashed close to a drifting mast. ' Tlic salt sea was frozen on her breast Trie salt tears in her eyes; And he saw her liair, like the... | |
 | 1851 - 1220 pages
...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 daybreak,...sea-beach, A fisherman stood aghast, To see the form of u maiden fair, Lashed close to a drifting mast " The salt sea was frozen on her breast. The salt tears... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1852 - 256 pages
...all sheathed in iec, With the masts went by the hoard ; Like a vessel of glass, she stove and saT7k, Ho ! ho ! the breakers roared ! At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood aghast, To sec the form of a maiden fair, Lashed close to a drifting must. I1C The salt sea was frozen on her... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1854 - 580 pages
...shrouds, all sheathod 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 soa-beach, A fisherman stood aghast, To see the form of a maiden fair, Lashed close to a drifting mast.... | |
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