 | New York (N.Y.) - 1840 - 818 pages
...stiff1 and stark, With his face to the skies, The lantern gleam'd through the gleaming snow On his fix'd and glassy eyes. Then the maiden clasped her hands...saved she might be ; And she thought of Christ, who stdll'd the wave On the Lake of Galilee. And fast through the midnight dark and drear, Through the... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1840 - 688 pages
...clasp'd her bands,and pray'd That save'd she might be ; And she thought of Christ, who still'd the wave On the lake of Galilee. And fast through the midnight dark and drear, Througli thewhistling sleet and snow, Like a sheeted ghost the vessel swept Toward the reef of Norman's... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Literary Criticism - 1842 - 148 pages
...word, A frozen corpse was he. Lashed to the helm, all stiff and stark, With his face to the skies, The lantern gleamed through the gleaming snow On his...might be ; And she thought of Christ, who stilled the wave, On the Lake of Galilee. And fast through the midnight dark and drear, Through the whistling sleet... | |
 | College students' writings, American - 1842 - 512 pages
...in its strength ; She shuddered and pawed, like a frighted steed, Then leaped her cable's length. " And fast through the midnight dark and drear, Through the whistling sleet and snow, Lake o sheeted ghost, the vessel swept Towards the reef of Norman's Woe." It would merely be doing... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1843 - 570 pages
...word, A frozen corpse was he. Lashed to the helm, all still" and stark, With his face to the skies, The lantern gleamed through the gleaming snow On his...might be ; And she thought of Christ, who stilled the wave, On the Lake of Galilee. And fast through the midnight dark and drear, Through the whistling sleet... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 462 pages
...word, A frozen corpse was he. Lashed to the helm, all stiff and stark, With his face to the skies, The lantern gleamed through the gleaming snow On his...dark and drear, Through the whistling sleet and snow, And ever the fitful gusts between A sound came from the land ; It was the sound of the trampling surf,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 500 pages
...A frozen corpse was he. Lashed to the helm, all stiff and stark, With his face turned to the skies, The lantern gleamed through the gleaming snow On his...might be ; And she thought of Christ, who stilled the wave, On the Lake of Galilee. And fast through the midnight dark and drear, Through the whistling sleet... | |
 | Marlborough coll, mus. soc - 1860 - 104 pages
...helm, all stiff and stark, With his pale face to the skies, The lantern gleamed through the falling snow On his fixed and glassy eyes. Then the maiden...prayed That saved she might be ; And she thought of HIM who stilled the waves On the Lake of Galilee. And fast through the midnight dark and drear, Through... | |
 | 1851 - 1220 pages
...ntark, With his face turned to the skies, The lantern gleamed through the gleaming enow On his tix'd and glassy eyes. " Then the maiden clasped her hands...fast through the midnight dark and drear, Through the whittling sleet and snow, Like a sheeted ghost, the vessel swept Towards the reef of Norman's Woe.... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...word, A frozen corpse was he. Lashed to the helm, all stiff and stark, With his face to the skies, The lantern gleamed through the gleaming snow On his...might be ; And she thought of Christ who stilled the wave, On the lake of Galilee. And fast through the midnight dark and drear, Through the whistling sleet... | |
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Some ship in distress, that cannot live In such an angry sea ! " "O father! I see a gleaming light, O say what may it be?" But the father answered never a word, A frozen corpse was he. Lashed to the helm, all stiff and stark, With his face turned to the... 
