 | 1866 - 234 pagine
...sound of the trampling surf On the rocks and the hard sea sand : The breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted a dreary wreck, And a whooping billow swept the crew Like icicles from her deck !" Yes : the fate of the gallant ship was sealed. The mighty efforts of captain and brave crew were... | |
 | 1840 - 818 pagine
...sound of the trampling surf, On the rocks and the hard sea-sand. Tk« breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted a dreary wreck, And a whooping billow...from her deck. She struck where the white and fleecy wavM Look'd soft as carded wool, But the cruel rocks, they gored her side Like the horns of an angry... | |
 | 1842 - 498 pagine
...earth to employ himself with in a dull country, fell onliis spear. The breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted a dreary wreck, And a whooping billow...deck. She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked soft as carded wool, But the cruel rocks, they gored her side Like the horns of an angry bull.... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1842 - 148 pagine
...sound of the trampling surf, On the rocks and the hard sea-sand. The breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted a dreary wreck, And a whooping billow...deck. She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked soft as carded wool, But the cruel rocks, they gored her side Like the horns of an angry bull.... | |
 | 1842 - 818 pagine
...How striking are the comparisons in this verse ; She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked soft as carded wool, But the cruel rocks, they gored her side, Like the horns of an angry hull. "To the River Charles, "is as sweet and pleasant a string of verses as we have read for many... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1843 - 570 pagine
...sound of the trampling surf, On the rocks and the hard sea-sand. The breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted a dreary wreck, And a whooping billow...deck. She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked soft as carded wool, But the cruel rocks, they gored her side Like the horns of an angry bull.... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 462 pagine
...sound of the trampling surf, On the rocks and the hard sea-sand. The breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted a dreary wreck, And a whooping billow...deck. She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked soft as carded wool, But the cruel rocks, they gored her side Like the horns of an angry bull.... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 500 pagine
...sound of the trampling surf, On the rocks and the hard sea-sand. The breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted a dreary wreck, And a whooping billow...deck. She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked soft as carded wool, But the cruel rocks, they gored her side Like the horns of an angry bull.... | |
 | Anne Marsh-Caldwell - 1850 - 312 pagine
...part the second of my story. PART III. CHAPTER I. She strtick where the white and fleecy waves Looked soft as carded wool ; But the cruel rocks they gored her side, Like the horns of an angry bull. LONGFELLOW. THE captain paced the deck, looking up from time to time anxiously at the threatening sky.... | |
 | 1851 - 1220 pagine
...sound of the trampling surf, On the rocks and the hard sea-sand. " The breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted a dreary wreck, And a whooping billow...deck. " She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked soft as carded wool, But the cruel rocks, they gored her side, Like the horns of an angry bull.... | |
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She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked soft as carded wool, But the cruel rocks, they gored her side Like the horns of an angry bull. 
