 IT was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea; And the skipper had taken his little daughter, To bear him company. Blue were her eyes as the fairy-flax, Her cheeks like the dawn of day, And her bosom white as the hawthorn buds, That ope in...  The complete poetical works [&c.]. - Page 92by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1864Full view - About this book
 | 1842 - 650 pages
...spear, 0, death was grateful ! " Thus, seamed with many scars Bursting these prison bars, Up to its native stars My soul ascended ! There from the flowing...the Northland ! skoal .'"* — Thus the tale ended. We have given both time and space to the above ballad, because, looking upon it as a line, spirited... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1842 - 148 pages
...have slightly changed the orthography of the word, in order to preserve the correct pronunciation. THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS. IT was the schooner Hesperus,...daughter, To bear him company. Blue were her eyes as the fairy-flax, Her cheeks like the dawn of day, And her bosom white as the hawthorn buds, That ope in... | |
 | 1842 - 506 pages
...and yet we must say, we have rarely or never in " these latter days," seen it surpassed in kind : " It was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry...daughter, To bear him company. " Blue were her eyes as the fairy-flax, Her cheeks like the dawn of day, And her bosom white aa the hawthorn buds, That ope in... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1842 - 144 pages
...spear, O, death was grateful ! " Thus, seamed with many scars Bursting these prison bars, Up to its native stars My soul ascended ! There from the flowing...the Northland ! skoal ! " * — Thus the tale ended. * In Scandanavia this is the customary salutation when drinking a health. I have slightly changed the... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1842 - 578 pages
...my spear, O, death was grateful ! Thus, seamed with many scars Bursting these prison bars, Up to its native stars My soul ascended ! There from the flowing...the Northland ! skoal /" — Thus the tale ended. A splendid translation of " The Children of the Lord's Supper," from the Swedish of Tegner, occupies... | |
 | 1842 - 620 pages
...spear, 0, death was grateful ! " Thus, seamed with many scars Bursting these prison bars, Up to its native stars My soul ascended ! There from the flowing...soul, Skoal! to the Northland! skoal!"* — Thus the lale ended. We hare given both time and space to the above ballad, because, looking upon it as a fine,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1843 - 570 pages
...spear, O, death was grateful ! " Thus, seamed with many scars Bursting these prison bars, Up to its native stars My soul ascended ! There from the flowing...the Northland ! skoal ! " * — Thus the tale ended. * In Scandanavia this is the customary salutation when drinking a health. I have slightly changed the... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 462 pages
...warlike gear, Fell I upon my spear, " Thus, seamed with many scars Bursting these prison bars, Up to its native stars My soul ascended ! There from the flowing...daughter, To bear him company. Blue were her eyes as the fairy-flax, Her cheeks like the dawn of day, And her bosom white as the hawthorn buds, That ope in... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 500 pages
...spear, O, death was grateful ! " Thus, seamed with many scars Bursting these prison bars, Up to its native stars My soul ascended ! There from the flowing...the Northland ! skoal ! " * — Thus the tale ended. * In Scandanavia this is the customary salutation when drinking a health. I have slightly changed the... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...from the flowing bowl Deep drinks the warrior's soul, Skoal ! to the Northland ! Skoal /"* THE WKECK OF THE HESPERUS. IT was the schooner Hesperus, That...daughter To bear him company. Blue were her eyes as the fairy-flax, Her cheeks like the dawn of day, And her bosom white as the hawthorn buds, That ope in... | |
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