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" ... glass, she stove and sank, Ho ! ho ! the breakers roared ! At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood aghast, To see the form of a maiden fair, Lashed close to a drifting mast. The salt sea was frozen on her breast, The salt tears in her... "
Ballads and Other Poems - Page 47
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1842 - 132 pages
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 8

Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1840 - 688 pages
...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...death like this On the reef of Norman's Woe ! THE CORPUS MSS. THIS is an age essentially rationalistic and inquiring. Beyond the certainty of nothing...
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 8

Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1840 - 686 pages
...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...from a death like this On the reef of Norman's Woe ! 153 THE CORPUS MSS. THIS is an age essentially rationalistic and inquiring. Beyond the certainty...
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The Evergreen, Volume 1

New York (N.Y.) - 1840 - 818 pages
...was frozen on her breast, The salt tears in her eyes ; And he saw her hair, like the brown sea-weed, On the billows fall and rise. Such was the wreck of...the midnight and the snow ! Christ save us all from a-death like this On the reef of Norman's Woe ! COMING OUT....BT JOHW NIAL. Do you know that you are...
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Voices of the Night

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1843 - 570 pages
...was frozen on her breast, The salt tears in her eyes ; And he saw her hair, like the brown sea-weed, On the billows fall and rise. Such was the wreck of...Norman's Woe ! THE LUCK OF EDENHALL. FROM THE GERMAN OF UHLAND. [The tradition, upon which this ballad is founded, and the " shards of the Luck of Edenhall,"...
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The Rover, Volume 2

Seba Smith, Lawrence Labree - 1844 - 498 pages
...was frozen on her breast, The salt tears in her eyes; And he saw her hair, like the brown sea-weed, On the billows fall and rise. Such was the wreck of...from a death like this On the reef of Norman's Woe! NEW SONG. BY THE LATE THOMAS HAVNES BAYLY. IT was a dream of perfect bliss, Too beautiful to last,...
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Programmes of evening concerts

Marlborough coll, mus. soc - 1860 - 106 pages
...sheathed in ice, With the masts, went by the board; Like a vessel of glass, she stove and sank, Ho 1 ho ! the breakers roared ! At daybreak, on the bleak...wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight and the snow ! Oh ! save us all from a death like this, On the reef of " Norman's AVoe." " Why with Toil" Pearsall....
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Poems

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 462 pages
...sea-beach, A fisherman stood aghast, To see the form of a maiden fair, Lashed close to a drifting mast. And he saw her hair, like the brown sea- weed, On...from a death like this, On the reef of Norman's Woe ! MISCELLANEOUS. MISCELLANEOUS. THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH. UNDER a spreading chestnut tree The village...
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Poems, Volume 1

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 500 pages
...was frozen on her breast, The salt tears in her eyes ; And he saw her hair, like the brown sea-weed, On the billows fall and rise. Such was the wreck of...Norman's Woe ! THE LUCK OF EDENHALL. FROM THE GERMAN OF UHLAND. [The tradition, upon which this ballad is founded, and the " shards of the Luck of Edenhall,"...
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The Guardian, Volume 30

Conduct of life - 1879 - 442 pages
...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 was the wreck...from a death like this, On the reef of Norman's Woe !" SOME people see naught but good, and treat evil with sentimental leniency Others see naught but...
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The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 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,...from a death like this, On the reef of Norman's Woe ! MISCELLANEOUS POEMS, ETC. EARLIER POEMS. THESE Poems were written for the most part during my college-life,...
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