 | 1873 - 296 pagine
...On the rocks and the hard sea-sand. The breakers were right beneath her bows : She drifted a dreaiy wreck ; And a whooping billow swept the crew, Like...and fleecy waves Looked soft as carded wool ; But tho cruel rocks, they gored her side Like the horns of an angry bull. Her rattling shrouds, all sheathed... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - 1874 - 286 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... | |
 | Charles Bruce (writer of tales) - 1874 - 582 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... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1874 - 390 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... | |
 | Lucius Alonzo Butterfield - 1874 - 36 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...as carded wool, But the cruel rocks, they gored her sides Like the horns of an angry bull. Her rattling shrouds, all sheathed in ice, With the masts went... | |
 | Charles H. Sylvester - 1922 - 538 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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1922 - 910 pagine
...the sound of the trampling surf On the rocks and the hard seasand. The breakers were right beneath And a whooping billow swept the crew Like icicles...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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1922 - 728 pagine
...beneath her bows, She drifted a dreary wreck, And a whooping billow swept the crew Like icicles froui her deck. She struck where the white and fleecy waves...carded wool, But the cruel rocks, they gored her side Like the horns of an angry bull. Her rattling shrouds, all sheathed in ice, V With the masts went by... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson - 1922 - 1920 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. 73 Her rattling shrouds, all sheathed in ice, With the masts went... | |
 | Alban Bertram De Mille - 1923 - 552 pagine
...25 And ever the fitful gusts between Some ship in distress, that cannot live In such an angry sea. The breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted...deck. She struck where the white and fleecy waves 5 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. 
