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" The breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted a dreary wreck, And a whooping billow swept the crew Like icicles from her deck. She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked soft as carded wool, But the cruel rocks, they gored her side Like... "
The Children's Garland from the Best Poets - Page 84
1899 - 344 pages
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The World of fashion and continental feuilletons [afterw.] The Ladies ...

1866 - 234 pages
...Gainstield lay down upon the deck in thorough despair. Cecilia had only Luke Jones to comfort her. " And ever the fitful Gusts between A sound came from...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...
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 8

Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1840 - 686 pages
...dark and drear, Through the whistling sleet and snow, Like a sheeted ghost the vessel swept Toward the reef of Norman's Woe. And ever the fitful gusts...the hard sea-sand. The breakers were right beneath heb bows, She drifted a dreary wreck, And a whooping billow swept the crew Like icicles from her deck....
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The Evergreen, Volume 1

New York (N.Y.) - 1840 - 818 pages
...dark and drear, Through the whistling sleet and snow, Like a sheeted ghost the vessel swept, Toward the reef of Norman's Woe. And ever the fitful gusts...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 swept...
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Ballads and Other Poems

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Literary Criticism - 1842 - 144 pages
...dark and drear, Through the whistling sleet and snow, Like a sheeted ghost, the vessel swept Towards the reef of Norman's Woe. And ever the fitful gusts...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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The Great Western Magazine and Anglo-American Journal of ..., Volume 1

United States - 1842 - 498 pages
...tower, and a Viking wilh nothing on earth to employ himself with in a dull country, fell onliis spear. The breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted...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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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 19

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1842 - 646 pages
...LONGFELLOW well understands the force of our simple vernacular expressions. Observe the following : 1 And ever the fitful gusts between, A sound came from...sound of the trampling surf On the rocks and the hard soa-sand.' ' She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked soft an carded wool ; But the cruel...
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Voices of the Night

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1843 - 570 pages
...dark and drear, Through the whistling sleet and snow, Like a sheeted ghost, the vessel swept Towards the reef of Norman's Woe. And ever the fitful gusts...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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Poems, Volume 1

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 500 pages
...dark and drear, Through the whistling sleet and snow, Like a sheeted ghost, the vessel swept Towards the reef of Norman's Woe. And ever the fitful gusts...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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Poems

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 462 pages
...Lake of Galilee. And fast through the midnight dark and drear, Through the whistling sleet and snow, And ever the fitful gusts between A sound came from...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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Select English poetry, with notes by E. Hughes

Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...a sheeted ghost, the vessel swept Towards the reef of Norman's Woe. T;iE TREASURES OF THE DEEP. 175 And ever the fitful gusts between A sound came from...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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