 Three weeks we westward bore, And when the storm was o'er, Cloud-like we saw the shore Stretching to leeward; There for my lady's bower Built I the lofty tower, Which, to this very hour, Stands looking seaward.  American Monthly Knickerbocker - Page 54edited by - 1841Full view - About this book
 | United States - 1842 - 650 pages
...concluding stanzas, which explain the whole mystery of the Newport tower, and of the armed skeleton. " Three weeks we westward bore, And when the storm was...to lea-ward ; There for my lady's bower Built I the lotfy tower, Which, to this very hour, Stands looking sea-ward. " There lived we many years ; Time... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1842 - 642 pages
...the denouement. The "lofty tower" alluded to, is supposed by the poet to be the celebrated " Newport Tower :" " Three weeks we westward bore, And when...Built I the lofty tower. Which, to this very hour, Stands looking sea-ward. There lived we many years : Time dried the maiden's tears ; She had forgot... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Literary Criticism - 1842 - 144 pages
...laden, So toward the open main, Beating to sea again, Through the wild hurricane, Bore I the maiden. " Three weeks we westward bore, And when the storm was...Built I the lofty tower, Which, to this very hour, Stands looking sea-ward. " There lived we many years ; Time dried the maiden's tears ; She had forgot... | |
 | United States - 1842 - 620 pages
...whole mystery of the Newport tower, and of the armed skeleton. " Three weeks we westward bore, And whea the storm was o'er, Cloud-like we saw the shore Stretching...to lea-ward ; There for my lady's bower Built I the lotfy tower, Which, to this very hour, Stands looking sea-ward. " There lived we many years ; Time... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1843 - 570 pages
...laden, So toward the open main, Beating to sea again, Through the wild hurricane, Bore I the maiden. " Three weeks we westward bore, And when the storm was...Built I the lofty tower, Which, to this very hour, Stands looking sea-ward. " There lived we many years ; Time dried the maiden's tears ; She had forgot... | |
 | Lewis Gaylord Clark - American literature - 1845 - 262 pages
...to sea again Through the wild hurricano, Bore 1 the maiden. ' Three weeks we westward bore. And whan the storm was o'er, Cloud-like we saw the shore Stretching to lea-ward; Therefor my lady's bower Built I the lolly tower, Which,to this very hour, Is looking tea-ward. XViIT.... | |
 | Literature - 1851 - 824 pages
...forth a ghastly gleam, and as the iron-bound figure points, he may be supposed to say "There for rny lady's bower Built I the lofty tower Which to this very hour Stands looking sea-ward." The free and broad play of light on the armour indicates that entire unreserve... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 462 pages
...haunt, With his prey laden, So toward the open main, Beating to sea again, Through the wild hurricane, " Three weeks we westward bore, And when the storm was o'er, Cloud-like we saw the shore Stretching to lee- ward ; There for my lady's bower Built I the lofty tower, Which, to this very hour, Stands looking... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 500 pages
...laden, So toward the open main, Beating to sea again, Through the wild hurricane, Bore I the maiden. " Three weeks we westward bore, And when the storm was o'er, Cloud-like we saw the shore Stretching to lee-ward ; There for my lady's bower Built I the lofty tower, Which, to this very hour, Slands looking... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...laden, So toward the open main, Beating to sea again, Through the wild hurricane, Bore I the maiden. Three weeks we westward bore, And when the storm was o'er, Cloud-like we saw the shore Stretching to leeward ! There for my lady's bower Built I the lofty tower, Which, to this very hour, There lived... | |
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