 | 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... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1840 - 688 pages
...maiden 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
...On his fixed and glassy eyes. Then the maiden clasped her hands and prayed That saved she might be ; And she thought of Christ, who stilled the wave, On...sleet and snow, Like a sheeted ghost, the vessel swept Towards the reef of Norman's Woe. And ever the fitful gusts between A sound came from the land ; It... | |
 | 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...sleet and snow, Like a sheeted ghost, the vessel swept Towards the reef of Norman's Woe." It would merely be doing justice to our author, to quote more extensively... | |
 | 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
...On his fixed and glassy eyes. Then the maiden clasped her hands and prayed That saved she might be ; And she thought of Christ, who stilled the wave, On...sleet and snow, Like a sheeted ghost, the vessel swept Towards the reef of Norman's Woe. And ever the fitful gusts between A sound came from the land ; It... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 500 pages
...On his fixed and glassy eyes. Then the maiden clasped her hands and prayed That saved she might be ; And she thought of Christ, who stilled the wave, On...sleet and snow, Like a sheeted ghost, the vessel swept Towards 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... | |
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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 prayed That saved she might be ; And she thought of Christ, who... 
