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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, selected by C. Patmore - Page 80
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The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 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...dreary wreck, And a whooping billow swept the crew She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked soft as carded wool ; But the cruel rocks, they...
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The American Whig Review, Volumes 13-14

1851 - 1220 pages
...swept Towards the reef of Norman's Woe. "And ever the fitful gusts between Abound cime from the laml ; It was the sound of the trampling surf, On the rocks...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 American Whig Review, Volume 13

1851 - 724 pages
...drear, Through the whistling sleet and enow, , Like a sheeted ghost, the vessel swept Towards the ruef of Norman's Woe, "And ever the fitful gusts between A sound came from the land ; • > II »a* the sound of the trampling surf, On the rocks and the hard sea-sand. •Tbe breakers...
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Voices of the Night, and Other Poems

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1852 - 256 pages
...ghost, the vessel swept Towards the reef of Norman's Woe. And ever the fitful gusts between A sound eame from the land ; It was the sound of the trampling...deck. She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked soft as carded wool, lint the cruel rocks, they gored her side Like the horns of an angry bull....
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Thalatta: A Book for the Sea-side

Samuel Longfellow - 1853 - 234 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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Thalatta: A Book for the Sea-side

Samuel Longfellow - 1853 - 228 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 - 1853 - 504 pages
...whistling sleet and snow, Like a sheeted ghost, the vessel swept Towards the reef of Norman's Woe. And eve/ the fitful gusts between A sound came from the land...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 - 1853 - 496 pages
...sleet and snow. Like a sheeted ghost, the vessel swept Towards the reef of Norman's Woe. And eve<: the fitful gusts between A sound came from the land...deck. She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked soft as carded wool, But the cruel rocks, they gored her. side Her rattling shrouds, all sheathed...
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Handbuch der nordamericanischen National-Literatur: Sammlung von ...

Ludwig Herrig - 1854 - 580 pages
...the reef of Norman's Woe. And ever the fitful gusts between A sound cume from the land; It was tlie sound of the trampling surf, On the rocks and the...deck. She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked soft äs carded wool, But the cruel rocks, thoy gored her side, Like the horns of an angry bull....
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The poetical works of H.W. Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 264 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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