| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1840 - 686 pages
...masts went by 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 form of a maiden fair Lash'd close to a drifting mast. The salt sea was frozen on her breast, The salt tears in her eyes;... | |
| 1840 - 818 pages
...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 fair, Lash'd close to a drifting mast. The salt sea was frozen on her breast, The salt tears in her eyes... | |
| 1842 - 498 pages
...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,...maiden fair, Lashed close to a drifting mast. The salt-sea was frozen on her breast, The salt tears in her eyes ; And he saw her hair, like the brown... | |
| Seba Smith, Lawrence Labree - 1844 - 498 pages
...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 fair, Lash'd close to a drifting mast. The salt sea was frozen on her breast, The salt tears in her eyes;... | |
| 1879 - 442 pages
...the dawn of day, And her hosom white as the hawthorn buds, That ope in the month of May. * * * * " At daybreak on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood..." The salt sea was frozen on her breast, The salt tear* in her eyes ; And he saw her hair like the brown seaweed, On the billows fall and rise. " Such... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 462 pages
...shrouds, all sheathed in ice, With the masts went by the board ; Like a vessel of glass, she stove and sank, Ho ! ho ! the breakers roared ! At daybreak,...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... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Russell Lowell - 1850 - 642 pages
...beauty heightened into the sublime, by terror. But when we read, among other similar things, that f The salt sea was frozen on her breast, The salt tears in her eyes, we feel, if not positive disgust, at least a chilling sense of the inappropriate. In the "Skeleton... | |
| 1851 - 724 pages
...eheathed in ice, With the masts went by the board; Like a vessel of gliiss, she stove and sank : Ho ! bo ! the breakers roared ! - At daybreak, on the bleak...of a maiden fair, Lashed close to a drifting mast. ' Tlic salt sea was frozen on her breast Trie salt tears in her eyes; And he saw her liair, like the... | |
| 1851 - 1220 pages
...rattling shrouds, all sheathed in ice, With the masts weut by the board; Like a vessel of glass, she stove and sank : Ho ! ho ! the breakers roared ! " At daybreak,...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... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1852 - 256 pages
...all sheathed in iec, With the masts went by the hoard ; Like a vessel of glass, she stove and saT7k, Ho ! ho ! the breakers roared ! At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood aghast, To sec the form of a maiden fair, Lashed close to a drifting must. I1C The salt sea was frozen on her... | |
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