... 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
| Andrew Comstock - 1874 - 286 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 ! MANSIE WAUCH'S FIRST AND LAST PLAT. (DM MOIB, MD) Mony a time and often had I heard of play-acting,... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1874 - 390 pages
...went over the side of the. vessel, were destroyed and lest. 2 Stove— was staved in, or broken into. Such was the wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight...from a death like this, On the reef of Norman's Woe ! Longfellow. WILLIAM TELL.' COME, list to me, and you shall hear A tale of what befel A famous man... | |
| James Sheridan Knowles - 1874 - 458 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...the midnight and the snow ! Christ save us all from death like this, On the reef of Norman's wo ! Longfellow. On the Death of Sheridan. YES ! Grief will... | |
| Henry Major - 1875 - 268 pages
...masts went by the board ; Like a vessel of glass, she stove and sank ; Ho ! ho ! the breakers roar'd ! At day-break on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood...from a death like this, On the reef of Norman's Woe. LONGFELLOW. AFTER BLENHEIM. It was a summer evening, Old Kaspar's work was done, And he before his... | |
| Donald Hall - 1985 - 266 pages
...was frozen on her breast, The salt tears in her eyes; 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! JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER 1807—1892 Barbara Frietchie The clustered spires of Frederick stand Green-walled... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1988 - 442 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...death like this, On the reef of Norman's Woe! THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH UNDER a spreading chestnut-tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man... | |
| Martin Gardner - 1992 - 226 pages
...was frozen on her breast, The salt tears in her eyes; And he saw her hair, like the brown seaweed, On the billows fall and rise. Such was the wreck of...death like this, On the reef of Norman's Woe! The Arrow and the Song I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, so swiftly... | |
| Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...stood aghast, To see the form of a maiden fair, Lashed close to a drifting mast. (1. 77-80) 53 Such as I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,...rapping, rapping at my chamber door. (1. 1-4) 35 (1. 85-88) AnAmPo; BeLS; BLPA; FaBoBe; FaFP; FPL; GN; MOS; OBCA; OBNV; PAH; WBLP AUDRE LORDE (b. 1934)... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 2001 - 116 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! 14 THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH Under a spreading chesmut-tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty... | |
| Jaros?aw Iwaszkiewicz - 2002 - 290 pages
...his eyes and again said firmly, 'Go on, Desmond, go on'. At once Desmond repeated the final stanza: 'Such was the wreck of the Hesperus, in the midnight and the mow ... Christ save us all from a death like this ... ' The doctor came, examined the patient and went... | |
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