... glass, she stove and sank, Ho ! ho ! the breakers roared ! At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood aghast, To see the form of a maiden fair, Lashed close to a drifting mast. The salt sea was frozen on her breast, The salt tears in her... Ballads and Other Poems - Page 47by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1842 - 132 pagesFull view - About this book
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 472 pages
...was frozen on her breast,' The salt tears in her eyea ; And he saw her hair, like the brown sea-weed, On the billows fall and rise. Such was the wreck of...death like this, On the reef of Norman's Woe ! [THE following Poems, with one exception, were written at sea, in the latter part of October. I had not... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 264 pages
...was frozen on her breast, The salt 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...from a death like this, On the reef of Norman's Woe! EARLlER POEMS. AN APRIL DAY. the warm sun, that brings Seed-time and harvest, has returned again, 'Tis... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 568 pages
...was frozen on her breast, The salt 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...snow ! Christ save us all from a death like this, TRANSLATIONS. THE CHILDREN OF THE LORD'S SUPPER, FROM THE SWEDISH OF BISHOP TEGNER. PENTECOST, day... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 502 pages
...was frozen on her breast, The salt 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...snow ! Christ save us all from a death like this, THE LUCK OF EDENHALL. FROM THE GERMAN OF CHLAND. [Tin- tradition, upon which this ballad is founded,... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1856 - 810 pages
...was frozen on her breast, The salt 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...from a death like this, On the reef of Norman's Woe I THE LUCK OF EDENHALL. FROM THP. CIKIIM AS OF UIU.ANU. [The tradition upon which this ballad is founded,... | |
| Anne Bowman - 1856 - 316 pages
...was frozen on her breast, The salt 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...from a death like this, On the reef of Norman's woe ! LONGFELLOW. HASSAN; OR, THE CAMEL-DRIVER. IN silent horror, o'er the boundless waste, The driver... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1856 - 432 pages
...was frozen on her breast, The salt tears in her eyes; Aud he saw her hair, like the brown sea-weed, On the billows fall and rise. Such was the wreck of...and the snow! Christ save us all from a death like thin, On the reef of Norman's Woe! THE LUCK OF EDENHALL. FROM TBI QIRMA.N Or I'HLIND. OF Edcuholl,... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...was frozen on her breast, The salt 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 snow 1 Christ save us all from a death like this, On the reef of Norman's Woe ! LONGFELLow. XXIV. THE TREASURES... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1857 - 428 pages
...was frozen on her breast, The salt 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...On the reef of Norman's Woe ! THE LUCK OF EDENHALL rilOM THZ GKRMiN OF UHLAND. OF Edenhall, the youthful Lord Bids sound the festal trumpet's call ; He... | |
| Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857 - 338 pages
...was frozen on her breast, The salt 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...from a death like this, On the reef of Norman's Woe ! ALEXANDER AND PHILIP. BY MISS LANDON. HE stood by the river's side, A conqueror and a king, None... | |
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