 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 568 pagine
...sound came from the land ; It was the sound of the trampling surf On the rocks and the hard sea-sand. The breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted...carded wool ; But the cruel rocks, they gored her side Like the horns of an angry bull. Her rattling shrouds, all sheathed in ice, With the mast went by the... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 264 pagine
...sound came from the land; It was the sound of the trampling surf On the rocks and the hard sea-sand. The breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted...carded wool ; But the cruel rocks, they gored her side Like the horns of an angry bull. Like a vessel of glass, she stove and sank, Ho ! ho ! the breakers... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 472 pagine
...sound came from the land ; It was the sound of the trampling surf On the rocks and the hard sea-sand. The breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted...carded wool ; But the cruel rocks, they gored her side Like the horns of an angry bull. Her rattling shrouds, all sheathed in ice, With the mast went by the... | |
 | Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer - 1855 - 444 pagine
...adding to its sweetness, a verse from Longfellow's "Wreck of the Hesperus," then just published :— " She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked...as carded wool, But the cruel rocks they gored her sides Like the horns of an angry bull." Max joined in the conversation with some talk about American... | |
 | Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer - 1855 - 456 pagine
...adding to its' sweetness, a verse from Longfellow's "Wreck of the Hesperus," then just published : — " She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked...as carded wool, But the cruel rocks they gored her sides Like the horns of an angry boll." Max joined in the conversation with some talk about American... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pagine
...sound came from the land ; It was the sound of the trampling surf, On the rocks and the hard sea-sand. The breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted...carded wool, But the cruel rocks they gored her side Like the horns of an angry bull. Her rattling shrouds all sheathed in ice, With the masts went by the... | |
 | Anne Bowman - 1856 - 316 pagine
...sound came from the land ; It was the sound of the trampling surf On the rocks and the hard sea-sand. The breakers were right beneath her bows ; She drifted...deck. She struck where the white and fleecy waves Look'd soft as carded wool ; But the cruel rocks, they gored her side, Like the horns of an angry bull.... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1856 - 432 pagine
...sound came from the laud; It was the sound of the trampling surf, On the rocks and the hard sea-sand. The breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted...billow swept the crew Like icicles from her deck. Ill She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked soft as carded wool, But the cruel rocks, they... | |
 | Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857 - 338 pagine
...land ; It was the sound of the trampling surf, On the rocks and the hard sea-sand. The breakers wore right beneath her bows, She drifted a dreary wreck,...from her deck. She struck where the white and fleecy vraves Looked soft as carded wool, But the cruel rocks, they gored her side, Like the horns of an angry... | |
 | Joseph Beckham Cobb - 1858 - 424 pagine
...came from the land ; It was the sound of the trampling surf, On the rocks and the hard sea-sand. " The breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted...carded wool, But the cruel rocks, they gored her side, Like the horns of an angry*bulL " Her rattling shrouds, all sheathed in ice, With the masts went by... | |
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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. 
