 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 skies, The lantern gleamed through the gleaming snow On his fixed and glassy eyes. Then the maiden clasped her hands and...  The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Page 87by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1866 - 367 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1840 - 686 pages
...maiden clasp'd her liands,and pray'd That saved she might be; And she thought of Christ, who still'd the wave On the lake of Galilee. And fast through...sleet and snow, Like a sheeted ghost the vessel swept Toward the reef of Norman's Woe. And ever the fitful gusts between A sound came from the land ; It... | |
 | New York (N.Y.) - 1840 - 818 pages
...maiden clasped her hands and prayed That saved she might be ; And she thought of Christ, who stdll'd the wave On the Lake of Galilee. And fast through...sleet and snow, Like a sheeted ghost the vessel swept, Toward the reef of Norman's Woe. And ever the fitful gusts between A sound came from the land; It was... | |
 | College students' writings, American - 1842 - 506 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 vessel swept Towards the reef of Norman's Woe." It would merely be doing justice to our author, to quote more extensively from his ballad poetry, but... | |
 | Seba Smith, Lawrence Labree - 1844 - 498 pages
...maiden clasped her hands and pmyed That saved she might be ; And she thought of Christ, who still'd the wave On the Lake of Galilee. And fast through...sleet and snow, Like a sheeted ghost the vessel swept, Toward the reef of Norman's Woe. And ever the fitful gusts between, A sound came from the land ; It... | |
 | Marlborough coll, mus. soc - 1860 - 104 pages
...clasped her hands, and 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...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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 462 pages
...his face to the skies, The lantern gleamed through the gleaming snow On his fixed and glassy eyes. Then the maiden clasped her hands and prayed That...might be ; And she thought of Christ, who stilled the waves, On the Lake of Galilee. And fast through the midnight dark and drear, Through the whistling... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...his face to the skies, The lantern gleamed through the gleaming snow On his fixed and glassy eyes. Then the maiden clasped her hands and prayed That...the vessel swept Towards the reef of Norman's Woe. T;iE TREASURES OF THE DEEP. 175 And ever the fitful gusts between A sound came from the land ; It was... | |
 | 1851 - 1220 pages
...turned to the skies, The lantern gleamed through the gleaming enow On his tix'd and glassy eyes. " Then the maiden clasped her hands and prayed That...might be ; And she thought of Christ, who stilled the waves On the lake of Galilee. " And fast through the midnight dark and drear, Through the whittling... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1852 - 256 pages
...face turned to the skies, The lantern gleamed through the gleaming snow On his fixed and glassy eyes. Then the maiden clasped her hands and prayed That...; And she thought of Christ, who stilled the wave, And fast through the midnight dark and drear. Through the whistling sleet and snow, I -ike a sheeted... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853 - 504 pages
...face turned to the skies, The lantern gleamed through the gleaming snow On his fixed and glassy eyes. Then the maiden clasped her hands and prayed That...vessel swept Towards the reef of Norman's Woe. And eve/ the fitful gusts between A sound came from the land ; It was the sound of the trampling surf,... | |
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