 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Literary Criticism - 1842 - 148 pages
...have slightly changed the orthography of the word, in order to preserve the correct pronunciation. THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS. IT was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea ; And the skipper had taken his little daughter, To bear him company. Blue were her eyes as the fairy-flax,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Literary Criticism - 1842 - 144 pages
...changed the orthography of the word, in order to preserve the correct pronunciation. I fcTHE WKECK OF THE HESPERUS. IT was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea ; And the skipper had taken his little daughter, To bear him company. Blue were her eyes as the fairy-flax,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1847 - 136 pages
...bowl Deep drinks the warrior's soul, Skoal! to the Northland! skoal.'"• — Thus the tale ended. THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS. IT was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea; And the skipper had taken his little daughter, To bear him company. Blue were her eyes as the fairy-flax,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 500 pages
...Stretching to lee-ward ; There for my lady's bower Built I the lofty tower, Which, to this very hour, THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS. It was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea ; And the skipper had taken his little daughter, To bear him company. Blue were her eyes as the fairy-flax,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 462 pages
...flowing bowl Deep drinks the warrior's soul, Skoal! to the Northland! skoal /" —Thus the tale ended. THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS. IT was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea ; And the skipper had taken his little daughter, To bear him company. Blue were her eyes as the fairy-flax,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...from the flowing bowl Deep drinks the warrior's soul, Skoal I to the Northland ! Skoal /" 5 THE WKECK OF THE HESPERUS. IT was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea ; And the skipper had taken his little daughter To bear him company. Blue were her eyes as the fairy-flax,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1852 - 256 pages
...bowl Deep drinks the warrior's soul, Skoal! to the Northland! skoal! "* •—Thus the tale ended. THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS. IT was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea ; And the skipper had taken his little daughter, To hear him company. Blue were her eyes as the fairy... | |
 | Samuel Longfellow - Literary Criticism - 1853 - 228 pages
...Rivers tell it to the sea, Shall not Ocean, with its billows, Their eternal mourner be ? ANONYMOUS. THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS. IT was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea ; And the skipper had taken his little daughter, To bear him company. Blue were her eyes as the fairy-flax,... | |
 | Samuel Longfellow - Literary Criticism - 1853 - 234 pages
...Rivers tell it to the sea, Shall not Ocean, with its billows, Their eternal mourner be ? ANONYMOUS. THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS. IT was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea ; And the skipper had taken his little daughter, To bear him company. Blue were her eyes as the fairy-flax,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853 - 504 pages
...have slightly changed the orthography of the word, in order to preserve the correct pronunciation. THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS. IT was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea ; And the skipper had taken his little daughter, To bear him company. Blue were her eyes as the fairy-flax,... | |
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The Wreck of the Hesperus." "It was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea; 
