 ... 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
 | Joseph Beckham Cobb - 1858 - 422 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...midnight and the snow ! Christ save us all from a wreck like this, On the reef of Norman's Woe ! " A few pages farther on, Mr. Longfellow favors us with... | |
 | Harvey Marriott - 1859 - 284 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. THE SLAVE'S DREAM. BENEATH the ungathered rice he lay, His sickle in his hand : His breast... | |
 | Book - 1859 - 334 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 ! LongfellowBABES IN THE WOOD. A GENTLEMAN of good account In Norfolk dwelt of late, Who did in honour... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1859 - 724 pages
...was frozen on her breast, The salt tears in her eyes ; And he saw her hair, like tne 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 ! 60 THE LUCK OF EDENHALL. The tradition, upon which this ballad is founded, stud the " shards of the... | |
 | William Bentley Fowle - 1859 - 356 pages
...sea-beach, A fisherman stood aghast, To see the form of a maiden fair Lashed close to the drifting mast. Such was the wreck of the Hesperus In the midnight and the snow ; — God save us all from a death like this On the reef of Norman's Woe ! * MRS. UNTIDY. Abridged... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1860 - 506 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...Norman's Woe ! THE LUCK OF EDENHALL. FROM THE GERMAN OF UHLAND. [The tradition upon which this ballad is founded, and the "shards of the Luck of Edenhall,"... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Gilbert - 1860 - 448 pages
...eyes ; And he saw her hair, like the brown sea-weed, On the billows fall and rise. Such was the wreek of the Hesperus, In the midnight and the snow ! Christ...of Norman's Woe ! . THE LUCK OF EDENHALL. FROM THE HERMAN OF UHLAND. Op Edenhall, the youthful Lord Bids sound the festal trumpet's call ; He rises at... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1860 - 514 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 ! THE LUCK OF EDENHALL. FKOM THE GERMAN OF UHLAND. [The tradition upon which this ballad is founded,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1861 - 912 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...reef of Norman's Woe ! THE LUCK OF EDENHALL. FROM TttR GERMAN OK UHLAND. [The tradition upon which this balkid is founded, and the "shardi of the Luck... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1861 - 562 pages
...a vessel named tll» Hesperus was actually lost there. And he saw her hair, like the brown Seaweed, On the billows fall and rise. Such was the wreck of...from a death like this, On the reef of Norman's Woe. XXXUL — GRACE DARLING. [This account of Grace Barling is mainly an abridgment of a sketch in Chambers'!... | |
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