 | Our own country - 1878 - 714 pages
...superstition of the spot : — " ' Oh, is it weed, or fish, or floating hair— A tress of golden hair, A drowned maiden's hair, Above the nets at sea? Was...salmon yet that shone so fair Among the stakes on Dec.'" " They rowed her in across the rolling foam — The cruel crawling foam, The cruel hungry foam,... | |
 | Amelia B. Edwards - English poetry - 1878 - 376 pages
...: And never home came she. "Oh! is it weed, or fish, or floating hair — A tress of golden hair, A drowned maiden's hair, Above the nets at sea?" Was...never salmon yet that shone so fair Among the stakes of Dee ! They rowed her in across the rolling foam, The cruel crawling foam, The cruel hungry foam,... | |
 | Amelia B. Edwards - Poetry - 1878 - 358 pages
...never home came she. "Oh! is it weed, or fish, or floating hair— A tress of golden hair, A drown6d maiden's hair, Above the nets at sea?" Was never salmon yet that shone so fair Among the stakes of Dee! They rowed her in across the rolling foam, The cruel crawling foam, The cruel hungry foam,... | |
 | Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore - Children's poetry, English - 1879 - 376 pages
...far as eye could see ; The blinding mist came down and hid the land — And never home came she. 3 Oh, is it weed, or fish, or floating hair ?— A tress...salmon yet that shone so fair Among the stakes on Dee. 4 They row'd her in across the rolling foam, The cruel crawling foam, The cruel hungry foam, To her... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - Children's poetry - 1879 - 354 pages
...down and hid the land — And never home came she. Oh, is it weed, or fish, or floating hair — And tress o' golden hair, O' drowned maiden's hair, Above...never salmon yet that shone so fair, Among the stakes o' Dee." They rowed her in across the rolling foam, The cruel, crawling foam, The cruel, hungry foam,... | |
 | Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards - 1879 - 390 pages
...land: And never home came she. "Oh! is it weed, or fish, or floating hair— A tress of golden hair, A drowned maiden's hair, Above the nets at sea?" Was...never salmon yet that shone so fair Among the stakes of Dee ! They rowed her in across the rolling foam, The cruel crawling foam, The cruel hungry foam,... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1879 - 332 pages
...And never home came she. " Oh ! is it weed, or fish, or floating hair — A tress of golden hair, A drowned maiden's hair Above the nets at sea ? Was never salmon yet that shone so fair r* Among the stakes on Dee." They rowed her in across the rolling foam, The cruel crawling foam, The... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 650 pages
...As far as eye could see ; The blinding mist came down and hid the land — And never home came she. 'Oh, is it weed, or fish, or floating hair — A tress...yet that shone so fair, Among the stakes on Dee.' They rowed her in across the rolling foam, The cruel, crawling foam, The cruel, hungry foam, To her... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 648 pages
...As far as eye could see ; The blinding mist came down and hid the land— And never home came she. 'Oh, is it weed, or fish, or floating hair — A tress...yet that shone so fair, Among the stakes on Dee.' They rowed her in across the rolling foam, The cruel, crawling foam, The cruel, hungry foam, To her... | |
 | Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 pages
...As far as eye could see ; [land ; The blinding mist came down and hid the And never home came she. " Oh, is it weed, or fish, or floating hair — A tress...yet that shone so fair. Among the stakes on Dee." They rowed her in across the rolling foam, The cruel, crawling foam, The cruel, hungry foam, To her... | |
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Dee.' They rowed her in across the rolling foam, The cruel, crawling foam, The cruel, hungry foam, To her grave beside the sea ; But still the boatmen hear her call the cattle home, Across the sands o 
