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" Colder and louder blew the wind, A gale from the Northeast, The snow fell hissing in the brine, And the billows frothed like yeast. Down came the storm, and smote amain The vessel in its strength ; She shuddered and paused, like a frighted steed, Then... "
Poems of America - Page 202
edited by - 1878 - 558 pages
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The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, Volume 10

United States - 1842 - 650 pages
...the Ancient Mariner found so hard to be borne. In " The Wreck of the Hesperus," the ship — " That shuddered and paused, like a frighted steed, Then leaped her cable's length," was evidently built of the same timber with that, " Which, like a pawing horse, let go, Then made a...
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The Sporting review, ed. by 'Craven'., Volume 38

John William Carleton - 1857 - 716 pages
...Hood's Bay, where the waves ran unusually high, and were very threatening : at which the little vessel " Shuddered and paused like a frighted steed, Then leaped her cable's length." On nearing Scarborough a large steamer passed them, making directly for the harbour. Charley therefore...
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 8

Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1840 - 686 pages
...the wind, A gale from the north-east ; The snow fell hissing in the brine, And the billows froth'd like yeast. Down came the storm, and smote amain The vessel in its strength ; She shudder'd and paused, like a frighted steed, Then leap'd her cable's length. " Come hither ! come hither...
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The Evergreen, Volume 1

New York (N.Y.) - 1840 - 818 pages
...the wind, A gale from the North-east; The t now fell hissing in the brine, And the billows froth 'd like yeast. Down came the storm, and smote amain, The vessel in its strength ; She shudder'd and paus'd, like a frighted steed, Then leap'd her cable's length. Come hither ! come hither...
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The United States Democratic Review, Volume 10

United States - 1842 - 620 pages
...the Ancient Mariner found so hard to be borne. In " The Wreck of the Hesperus," the ship — " That shuddered and paused, like a frighted steed, Then leaped her cable's length," was evidently built of the same timber with that, " Which, like a pawing horse, let go, Then made a...
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The Rover, Volume 2

Seba Smith, Lawrence Labree - 1844 - 498 pages
...the wind, A gale from the North-east ; The snow fell hissing in the brine, And the billows froth'd like yeast. Down came the storm, and smote amain, The vessel in Its strength ; She shudder'd and paus'd, like a frighted steed, Then leap'd her cable's length. Come hither ! come hither...
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Programmes of evening concerts

Marlborough coll, mus. soc - 1860 - 104 pages
...to-night no moon we see !" The skipper, he blew a whiff from his pipe, And a scornful laugh laughed he. Down came the storm, and smote amain The vessel in...so ; For I can weather the roughest gale, That ever the wind did blow." " Dear father ! I hear the church-bells ring, O say, what may it be?" " 'Tis a...
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The American Whig Review, Volume 13

Periodicals - 1851 - 724 pages
...pijH.1, And a scornful laugh laughed he. " Colder and louder blew the wind, A gale from the northeast ; The snow fell hissing in the brine, And the billows...strength ; She shuddered and paused, like a frighted s'.oo i. : Then leaped her cable's length. "'Come hither! come hither ! my little daughter, And do...
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Voices of the Night, and Other Poems

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1852 - 256 pages
...pipe. And a scornful laugh laughed he. Colder and louder blew the wind, A gale from the Northeast : The snow fell hissing in the brine, And the billows...weather the roughest gale, That ever wind did blow." lie wrapped her warm in his seaman's coat Against the stinging' blast ; He cut a rope from a broken...
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Poems, Volume 1

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853 - 504 pages
...pipe, And a scornful laugh laughed he. Colder and louder blew the wind, A gale from the Northeast ; The snow fell hissing in the brine, And the billows...tremble so ; For I can weather the roughest gale, X^at ever wind did blow." He wrapped her warm in his seaman's coat Against the stinging blast ; He...
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