... 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, Oh say, what may it be? Ballads and Other Poems - Página 45por Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1842 - 132 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Steven Gould Axelrod, Camille Roman, Thomas Travisano - 2003 - 770 páginas
...on a rock-bound coast!" — And he steered for the open sea. "O father! I hear the sound of guns, Oh say, what may it be?" "Some ship in distress, that...an angry sea!" "O father! I see a gleaming light, Oh say, what may it be?" But the father answered never a word, A frozen corpse was he. Lashed to the... | |
| Gary C. King - 2003 - 268 páginas
...always being by my side, darlin'. Ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath . . . — EPHESIANS 6:4 But the father answered never a word, A frozen corpse was he. — HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW "The Wreck'bfthe Hesperus" To thine own self be true, And it must follow,... | |
| Domhnall Mitchell, Professor of English Domhnall Mitchell - 2005 - 448 páginas
...poem consisted of four lines of alternating tetrameter and trimeter, rhyming abcb. "O father! I hear the sound of guns, O say, what may it be?" "Some ship in distress, that cannot live In such an angry sea!"82 But in a subsequent edition, where the columns are narrower, the same stanza is arranged like... | |
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