 | 1866 - 234 pages
...recommend this pattern as being an admirable fit and of the newest style. I IIk LOVE ON THE OCEAN WAVE. "The skipper he stood beside the helm, His pipe was in his mouth ; And watched how the veering wind did blow The smoke now west, now south : Then up and spoke an old sailor... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1840 - 686 pages
...W. LONGFELLOW. IT was the schooner Hesperus That sail'd the wintry sea ; And the skipper had ta'en his little daughter To bear him company. Blue were...fairy-flax, Her cheeks like the dawn of day, And her bosom sweet as the hawthorn buds That ope in the month of May. The skipper he stood beside the helm, With... | |
 | New York (N.Y.) - 1840 - 818 pages
...WADSWORTK LONGFELLOW. _» the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea; And the Skipper had ta'en his little daughter, To bear him company. Blue were...fairy-flax, Her cheeks like the dawn of day, And her bosom sweet as the hawthorn buds, That ope in the month of May. The Skipper he stood beside the helm, With... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1840 - 688 pages
...company. Blue were her eyes as the fairy-flax, Her cheeks like the dawn of day, And her bosom sweet as the hawthorn buds That ope in the month of May. The skipper he stood beside tlie helm, With his pipe in his mouth, And watch'd how the veering flaw did blow The smoke now west,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Literary Criticism - 1842 - 144 pages
...of the word, in order to preserve the correct pronunciation. fcTHE WKECK OF THE HESPERUS. IT was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea ; And...month of May. The skipper he stood beside the helm, With his pipe in his mouth, And watched how the veering flaw did blow The smoke now West, now South.... | |
 | College students' writings, American - 1842 - 512 pages
...latter days," seen it surpassed in kind : " It was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry son ; And the skipper had taken his little daughter, To...as the hawthorn buds, That ope in the month of May. " Down came the storm, and smote amain, The vessel in its strength ; She shuddered and pawed, like... | |
 | College students' writings, American - 1842 - 506 pages
...must say, we have rarely or never in " these latter days," seen it surpassed in kind : " It was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea ; And...Her cheeks like the dawn of day, And her bosom white aa the hawthorn buds, That ope in the month of May. " Down came the storm, and smote amain, The vessel... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1843 - 570 pages
...of the word, in order to preserve the correct pronunciation. THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS. IT was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea ; And...month of May. The skipper he stood beside the helm, With his pipe in his mouth, And watched how the veering flaw did blow The smoke now West, now South.... | |
 | Seba Smith, Lawrence Labree - 1844 - 498 pages
...HENBY WADIWOBTS LONOFELLOW. IT was the Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea ; And the Skipper had ta'en his little daughter, To bear him company. Blue were...fairy-flax, Her cheeks like the dawn of day, And her bosom sweet as the hawthorn buds, That ope in the month of May. The Skipper he stood beside the helm, With... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 462 pages
...Skoal ! to the Northland ! skoal /" — Thus the tale ended. THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS. IT was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea ; And...month of May. The skipper he stood beside the helm, With his pipe in his mouth, And watched how the veering flaw did blow The smoke now West, now South.... | |
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THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS. IT was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea ; And the skipper had taken his little daughter, To bear him company. 
