 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 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...billow swept the crew Like icicles from her deck. Horatius keeps the Bridge. She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked soft as carded wool;... | |
 | John Charles Curtis - 1869 - 150 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...billow swept the crew Like icicles from her deck. T11E OLD MAN'S COMFORTS, AND HOW HE GAINED THEM. 119 She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1870 - 642 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... | |
 | Oliver Optic - 1870 - 974 pagine
...the trampling surf On the rocks and the hard sea-sand. " The breakers were right beneath her bowe ; She drifted a dreary wreck ; And a whooping billow swept the crew, Like icicles, from her deck." " Sunset on the Coast " is a companionpicture to the " Launching of the Life-Boat," in the last number... | |
 | Edmund Routledge - 1871 - 196 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... | |
 | 1868 - 224 pagine
...rocks. ind the hard sea-sand. The breakers were right beneath her She drifted a dreary wreck, [bows, And a whooping billow swept the crew Like icicles...white and fleecy waves Looked soft as carded wool, [side But the cruel rocks, they gored her Like the horns of an angry bulL Her rattling shrouds, all... | |
 | Hymns - 1871 - 330 pagine
...A sound came from the land ; It was the sound of the trampling surf On the rocks and hard sea-sand. The breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted a dreary wreck, And a whooping billow swept her crew Like icicles from her deck. She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked soft as carded... | |
 | Jarrold and sons, ltd - 1872 - 198 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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1872 - 730 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 shronds, all sheathed in ice, With the masts went by... | |
 | Charles Hartley - 1872 - 372 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 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. 
