 ... 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
 | Book - 1864 - 396 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 OLD COURTIER. ^N old song made by an aged old pate, Of an old worshipful gentleman... | |
 | George Watson (publisher.) - 1864 - 238 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...Hesperus, In the midnight and the snow ! Christ save us from a death like this, On the reef of Norman's Woe ! Longfellow. " GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD."... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1865 - 388 pages
...her hreast, The salt tears in her eyes ; And he saw her hair, like the hrown sea-weed, On the hillows fall and rise. Such was the wreck of the Hesperus,...the reef of Norman's Woe ! THE LUCK. OF EDENHALL. FEOM THE GEEMAN OF UHLAND. [The tradition upon which this hallad is founded, and the "shards of the... | |
 | John Hugh Hawley - 1865 - 166 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...from, a death like this, On the reef of Norman's Woe I LONGFELLOW. 52.— A SCOTTISH WINTER. I. November's sky is chill and drear, November's leaf is red... | |
 | Charles Bilton - 1866 - 264 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 day-break,...from a death like this, On the reef of Norman's Woe ! Longfellow. THE LIGHT-HOUSE. The rocky ledge rims far into the aea, And on its outer point, some... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1866 - 710 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 tha Luck of Edenhall,"... | |
 | Words - 1866 - 368 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. EXCELSIOR. The shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed... | |
 | Standard poetry book - 1866 - 300 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! CHILDHOOD AND HIS VISITORS. ONCE on a time, when sunny May Was kissing up the April showers, I saw... | |
 | Pen and pencil pictures - 1866 - 176 pages
...salt tears in her eyes ; And he saw her hair, like the brown sea-weed, On the billows fall and rise. i Such was the wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight...all from a death like this, On the reef of Norman's \Voe ' Sonnet. IT H ships the sea was sprinkled far and nigh, У Like stars in heaven, and joyously... | |
 | Robert Armstrong (master of Madras coll) - 1866 - 142 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...Hesperus, In the midnight and the snow ! Christ, save us from a death like this, On the reef of Norman's Woe. EXCELSIOR THE shades of night were falling fast,... | |
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