 | Charles John S.G. Canning (3rd baron Garvagh.) - 1875 - 254 pages
...as high but, if anything, less violent, and we saved our gunwale from all further loss. But now, " The snow fell hissing in the brine, And the billows frothed like yeast," for the snow which had been threatening fell at last, and some of it remained upon the rigging. " Thursday,... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1876 - 452 pages
...ring, And to-night no moon we see ! " The skipper, he ik^ £ whiff from his pipe, And a scorntSP S|pi laughed he. Colder and louder blew the wind, A gale...strength ; She shuddered and paused, like a frighted steed,Then leaped her cable's length. " Come hither ! come hither ! my little daughter, And do not... | |
 | 1876 - 216 pages
...ring, And to night no moon we see 1" The skipper he blew a whiff from his pipe, And a scornful laugh laughed he. Colder and louder blew the wind, A gale...yeast. Down came the storm, and smote amain The vessel iu its strength ; She shuddered and paused, like a frightened steed, Then leaped her cable's length.... | |
 | Anna Randall Diehl - 1876 - 458 pages
...came the storm and smote amain The vessel in its strength ; She shuddered and paused like a frightened steed, Then leaped her cable's length. "Come hither!...not tremble so ; For I can weather the roughest gale \ He wrapped her warm in his seaman's coat Against the stinging blast, He cut a rope from a broken... | |
 | Lays, Tuneful lays - 1877 - 96 pages
...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 blew the wind, A gale...in its strength ; She shuddered and paused like a frightened steed, Then leaped her cable's length. " Come hither, come hither, my little daughter, And... | |
 | William Davis (B.A.) - 1877 - 80 pages
...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 blew the wind, A gale...in the brine, And the billows frothed like yeast. 1 Schooner, a vessel with two masts. 2 Skipper, the captain of a merchant vessel. 3 Ope, a poetical... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1877 - 326 pages
...shipper, captain IT veering Jlausi changeable gusts of wind 16 hurricane, sudden storm 17 ring, halo Colder and louder blew the wind, A gale from the North-east...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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1877 - 400 pages
...goldenring, 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 blew the wind, A gale from the northeast, The snow fell hissmg m the brine, And the billows frothed like yeast. Down came the storm, and smote amain The vessel... | |
 | William Davidson (B.A.), Joseph Crosby Alcock - 1877 - 240 pages
...story was ended the blacksmith Stood like a man who fain would speak, but findeth no language. 25. Down came the storm, and smote amain The vessel in its strength. 26. The clouds are scudding across the moon ; A misty light is on the sea ; The wind in the shrouds... | |
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Last night, 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. 
