 Then launched they to the blast, Bent like a reed each mast, Yet we were gaining fast, When the wind failed us; And with a sudden flaw Came round the gusty Skaw, So that our foe we saw Laugh as he hailed us. "And as to catch the gale Round veered the...  Poems of Places: America - Página 129editado por - 1881Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | 1842 - 650 páginas
...triumphant laugh of his pursuers, when he resorted to the following bold, but not very humane manoeuvre. "And as to catch the gale Round veered the flapping...Down her black hulk did reel Through the black water !" Hildebrand and his followers having been thus summarily disposed of, the Pirate resumed his voyage,... | |
 | 1842 - 620 páginas
...triumphant laugh of his pursuers, when he resorted to the following bold, but not very humane manoeuvre. "And as to catch the gale Round veered the flapping...Down her black hulk did reel Through the black water !" Hildebrand and his followers having been thus summarily disposed of, the Pirate resumed his voyage,... | |
 | Charles Timothy Brooks - 1851 - 112 páginas
...Bent like a reed each mast, Yet we were gaining fast, When the wind failed us ; And with a sudden flaw Came round the gusty Skaw, So that our foe we saw...Down her black hulk did reel Through the black water ! Sails the fierce cormorant, Seeking some rocky haunt, With his prey laden, So toward the open main,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 páginas
...When the wind failed us ; And with a sudden flaw Came round the gusty Skaw, So that our foe we saw And as to catch the gale Round veered the flapping...with iron keel Struck we her ribs of steel ; Down her hlack hulk did reel Through the black water ! As with his wings aslant Sails the fierce cormorant,... | |
 | Charles Timothy Brooks - 1851 - 110 páginas
...like a reed eaeh mast, Yet we were gaining fiu-t, When Cie wind i'aiied us ; And with a sudden flaw Came round the gusty Skaw, So that our foe we saw Laugh as he hailed us, " And as to catch the gale Koimd veered the napping sail, Death ! was the helmsman's hail, Death without quarter 1 Mid-ships,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1852 - 256 páginas
...Bent like a reed each mast, Yet we were gaining fast, When the wind failed us ; And with a sudden flaw Came round the gusty Skaw, So that our foe we saw Laugh as he hailed us. " And as to catch the gale Hound veered the flapping sail, Death ! was the helmsman's hail, Death without quarter ! Mid-ships... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853 - 496 páginas
...And with a sudden flaw Came round the gusty Skaw5 So that our foe we saw Laugh as he hailed us0 '" And as to catch the gale Round veered the flapping...we her ribs of steel ; Down her black hulk did reel As with his wings aslant, Sails the fierce cormorant, Seeking some rocky haunt, With his prey laden,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 264 páginas
...Bent like a reed each mast, Yet we were gaining fast, When the wind failed us; And with a sudden flaw Came round the gusty Skaw, So that our foe we saw...ribs of steel ; Down her black hulk did reel Through the»black water ! " As with his wings aslant Sails the fierce cormorant, Seeking some rocky haunt,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 502 páginas
...Bent like a reed each mast, Yet we were gaining fast, When the wind failed us ; And with a sudden flaw Came round the gusty Skaw, So that our foe we saw...we her ribs of steel; Down her black hulk did reel " As with his wings aslant, Sails the fierce cormorant, Seekmg some rocky haunt, With his prey laden,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1855 - 690 páginas
...the gusty Skaw, So that our foe we saw Laugh as he hail'd us. " And as to catch the gale Round veer'd the flapping sail, Death ! was the helmsman's hail,...hulk did reel Through the black water. •« As with hie wings aslant, Sails the fierce cormorant, Seeking some rocky haunt, With his prey laden. So toward... | |
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