 IT was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed 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 buds That ope in...  The Evergreen - Page 991840Full view - About this book
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Literary Criticism - 1842 - 148 pages
...THE HESPERUS. IT was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea ; And the skipper had taken his little daughter, To bear him company. Blue were...fairy-flax, 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, With... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Literary Criticism - 1842 - 144 pages
...orthography 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 the skipper had taken his little daughter, To bear him company. Blue were her eyes as the fairy-flax, Her cheeks like... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1843 - 570 pages
...orthography 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 the skipper had taken his little daughter, To bear him company. : Blue were her eyes as the fairy-flax, Her cheeks... | |
 | Marlborough coll, mus. soc - 1860 - 104 pages
...glee, If only one were here with me ! l, "Thewreck of the Hesperus," Hatlon REV. R. DUCKWORTH. It was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea...had ta'en his little daughter, To bear him company. 6 Blue were her eyes, as the fairy-flax. Her checks like the dawn of day, And her bosom white as the... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 462 pages
...soul, 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 the skipper had taken his little daughter, To bear him company. Blue were her eyes as the fairy-flax, Her cheeks like... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 500 pages
...orthography 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 the skipper had taken his little daughter, To bear him company. Blue were her eyes as the fairy-flax, Her cheeks like... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1879 - 442 pages
...Wreck of the Hesperus" tells the story of a certain Skipper, who "sailed the wintry sea," and took his little daughter to bear him company. '' Blue were her eyes as (he fair flax, Her cheeks like the dawn of day, And her hosom white as the hawthorn buds, That ope... | |
 | 1851 - 1220 pages
...wintry sea ; And the skipper had taken his little daughter To bear him company. " Blue were her eyea as the fairy-flax, 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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...Deep drinks the warrior's soul, Skoal ! to the Northland ! Skoal /"* THE WKECK 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. Blue were her eyes as the fairy-flax, Her cheeks like... | |
 | Periodicals - 1851 - 724 pages
...confirm or to refute the correctness and justice of the judgment ч have meted out to it :— " It was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea; And the skipper had taken his little daughu-r To bear him company. " Blue were her eyes аз the fairy-flax, Her cheeks... | |
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