 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 horns of an angry bull. Her rattling...  Story Hour Readings - Page 102by Ernest Clark Hartwell - 1921Full view - About this book
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1840 - 688 pages
...Look'd soft as 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...glass, she stove and sank, Ho ! ho ! the breakers roar'd ! At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood aghast To see the form of a maiden... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1840 - 686 pages
...Look'd soft as 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...board, Like a vessel of glass, she stove and sank, Ho 1 ho ! the breakers roar'd ! At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood aghast To see the... | |
 | New York (N.Y.) - 1840 - 818 pages
...gored her side Like the horns of an angry bull. Her rattling shrouds, all sheath'd in ice, With tb« masts went by the board ; Like a vessel of glass, she stove and sank, Ho ! ho ! the breakers roar'd ! At day-break, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood aghast, To see the form of a maiden... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Literary Criticism - 1842 - 148 pages
...Looked soft as 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 board ; Like a vessel of glass, she strove and sank, Ho ! ho ! the breakers roared ! At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood... | |
 | United States - 1842 - 498 pages
...soft as carded wool, But the cruel rocks, they gored her side Like the horns of an angry bull. The rattling shrouds, all sheathed in ice, With the masts went by the board ; Like a vessel of glass, she strove and sank, Ho ! ho ! the breakers roared ! , At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1843 - 570 pages
...Looked soft as 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 board ; Like a vessel of glass, she strove and sank, Ho ! ho ! the breakers roared ! At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood... | |
 | Seba Smith, Lawrence Labree - 1844 - 498 pages
...they gored her side Like the horns of an angry bull. Her rattling shrouds, all sheath'd in ice, AVith the masts went by the board ; Like a vessel of glass, she stove and sank, Ho ! ho ! the breakers roar'd ! At day-break, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood aghast, To see the form of a maiden... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 462 pages
...Looked soft as 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...of a maiden fair, Lashed close to a drifting mast. And he saw her hair, like the brown sea- weed, On the billows fall and rise. Such was the wreck of... | |
 | Marlborough coll, mus. soc - 1860 - 104 pages
...whistling sleet and snow, Like a sheeted ghost, the bark swept on Towards the reef of " Norman's Woe." Her rattling shrouds, all sheathed in ice, With the...board; Like a vessel of glass, she stove and sank, Ho 1 ho ! the breakers roared ! At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood aghast, To see... | |
 | 1851 - 1220 pages
...side, Like the horns of an angry bull. " Her rattling shrouds, all sheathed in ice, With the masts weut by the board; Like a vessel of glass, she stove and...sea-beach, A fisherman stood aghast, To see the form of u maiden fair, Lashed close to a drifting mast " The salt sea was frozen on her breast. The salt tears... | |
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