 | George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1877 - 454 pages
...national culture in European eyes, he is undoubtedly the most conspicuous of American poets. THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS. IT was the schooner Hesperus That sailed...had taken his little daughter, To bear him company. Blue were her eyes as the fairy-flax, Her checks like the dawn of day, And her bosom white as the hawthorn... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1877 - 634 pages
...drinks the warrior's soul, Skoal ! to the Northland ! Skoal ! ' —Thus the ta1e ended. THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS. It was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed...had taken his little daughter, To bear him company. Blue were her eyes as the fairy-flax, Her cheeks like the dawn of day, And her bosom white as the hawthorn... | |
 | Alfred Macleod - 1877 - 238 pages
...the light ! and now he steers In safety to the land ! THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS. — (Longfellow.) IT was the schooner Hesperus, that sailed the wintry...had taken his little daughter, to bear him company. Blue were her eyes as the fairyflax, her cheeks like the dawn of day, and her bosom white as the hawthorn... | |
 | Lays, Tuneful lays - 1877 - 96 pages
...element. Glorious fountain ! Let my heart be Fresh, changeful, constant, Upward like thee ! THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS. IT was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea ; And the skipper had ta'en his little daughter, To bear him company. Blue were her eyes as the fairy flax, Her cheeks like... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - Children's poetry, English - 1877 - 326 pages
...sank into the sea ! Unknown * 14* THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS IT was the schooner Hesperus, That sail'd the wintry sea ; And the skipper had taken his little daughter, To bear him company. Blue were her eyes as the fairy flax, Her cheeks like the dawn of day, And her bosom white as the hawthorn... | |
 | Donald Hall - American poetry - 1985 - 266 pages
...fortunes must be wrought; Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought. The Wreck of the Hesperus It was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed...had taken his little daughter, To bear him company. And her bosom white as the hawthorn buds, That ope in the month of May. The skipper he stood beside... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Poetry - 1988 - 442 pages
...Deep drinks the warrior's soul, Skoal! to the Northland! skoal!'" Thus the tale ended. THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS" IT was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed...had taken his little daughter, To bear him company. Blue were her eyes as the fairy-flax, Her cheeks like the dawn of day, And her bosom white as the hawthorn... | |
 | Martin Gardner - Poetry - 1992 - 226 pages
...first printing. 2 A tear . . . eyes] "A tear from out his eyes," in the first printing. The Wreck of the Hesperus It was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed...had taken his little daughter, To bear him company. Blue were her eyes as the fairy-flax, Her cheeks like the dawn of day, And her bosom white as the hawthorn... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought! (1. 43-48) The Wreck of the Hesperus 51 no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering...— Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's (1. 1 —4) 52 At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood aghast, To see the form of a... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2001 - 116 pages
...Building of the Long Serpent 94 "Men shall hear of Thorberg Skafting For a hundred year!" THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS It was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed...had taken his little daughter, To bear him company. Blue were her eyes as the fairy-flax, Her cheeks like the dawn of day, And her bosom white as the hawthorn... | |
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Her cheeks like the dawn of day, And her bosom white as the hawthorn buds, That ope in the month of May. The skipper he stood beside the helm, His pipe was in his mouth, And he watched how the veering flaw did blow The smoke now West, now South. Then... 
