 He wrapped her warm in his seaman's coat Against the stinging blast; He cut a rope from a broken spar. And bound her to the mast. "O father! I hear the church-bells ring, O say, what may it be?  Story Hour Readings - Page 100by Ernest Clark Hartwell - 1921Full view - About this book
 | 1842 - 650 pages
...the Ancient Mariner found so hard to be borne. In " The Wreck of the Hesperus," the ship — " That shuddered and paused, like a frighted steed, Then leaped her cable's length," was evidently built of the same timber with that, " Which, like a pawing horse, let go, Then made a... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1857 - 716 pages
...Hood's Bay, where the waves ran unusually high, and were very threatening : at which the little vessel " Shuddered and paused like a frighted steed, Then leaped her cable's length." On nearing Scarborough a large steamer passed them, making directly for the harbour. Charley therefore... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1840 - 686 pages
...smote amain The vessel in its strength ; She shudder'd and paused, like a frighted steed, Then leap'd her cable's length. " Come hither ! come hither !...weather the roughest gale That ever wind did blow." He wrapp'd her warm in his seaman's coat Against the stinging blast; He cut a rope from a broken spar,... | |
 | 1840 - 818 pages
...smote amain, The vessel in its strength ; She shudder'd and paus'd, like a frighted steed, Then leap'd her cable's length. Come hither ! come hither ! my little daughter, And do not tremble so ; For I con weather the roughest gale, That ever wind did blow. He wrapp'd her warm in his seaman's coat Against... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1842 - 144 pages
...fell hissing in the brine, And the billows frothed like yeast. Down came the storm, and smote amain, The vessel in its strength ; She shuddered and paused,...stinging blast ; He cut a rope from a broken spar, And bound her to the mast. " O father ! I hear the church-bells ring, O say, what may it be ? " '"T... | |
 | 1842 - 620 pages
...the Ancient Mariner found so hard to be borne. In " The Wreck of the Hesperus," the ship — " That shuddered and paused, like a frighted steed, Then leaped her cable's length," was evidently built of the same timber with that, " Which, like a pawing horse, let go, Then made a... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1843 - 570 pages
...fell hissing in the brine, And the billows frothed like yeast. Down came the storm, and smote amain, The vessel in its strength ; She shuddered and paused,...stinging blast ; He cut a rope from a broken spar, And bound her to the mast. " O father ! I hear the church-bells ring, O say, what may it be ? " " 'T... | |
 | Seba Smith, Lawrence Labree - 1844 - 498 pages
...smote amain, The vessel in Its strength ; She shudder'd and paus'd, like a frighted steed, Then leap'd her cable's length. Come hither ! come hither ! my...weather the roughest gale, That ever wind did blow. He wrapp'd her warm in his seaman's coat Against the stinging blast ; He cut a rope from a broken spar,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 462 pages
...fell hissing in the brine, And the billows frothed like yeast. Down came the storm, and smote amain The vessel in its strength ; She shuddered and paused,...stinging blast ; He cut a rope from a broken spar, And bound her to the mast. « 'T is a fog-bell on a rock-bound coast !" — And he steered for the... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 500 pages
...fell hissing in the brine, And the billows frothed like yeast. Down came the storm, and smote amain, The vessel in its strength ; She shuddered and paused,...stinging blast ; He cut a rope from a broken spar, And bound her to the mast. " O father ! I hear the church-bells ring, O say, what may it be ? " " 'T... | |
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