Waving his armed hand, Saw we old Hildebrand, With twenty horsemen. "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... Poems - Seite 47von Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 413 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Lewis Gaylord Clark - 1845 - 262 Seiten
...When on the white sea-strand, Waving his armed hand, Saw we old Hildebrand, With twenty horsemen. • Then launched they to the blast • Bent like a reed...each mast — Yet we were gaining fast, When the wind fail'd us; And with a sudden flaw Came round the gusty Skaw, 80 that our foe we saw Laugh as he hail... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 500 Seiten
...When on the white sea-strand, Waving his armed hand, Saw we old Hildebrand, With twenty horsemen. " Then launched they to the blast, Bent like a reed each mast, Yet we were gaining fust, When the wind failed us ; And with a sudden flaw Came round the gusty Skaw, So that our foe we... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 Seiten
...— When on the white sea-strand, Waving his armed hand, Saw we old Hildebrand, With twenty horsemen. Then launched they to the blast, Bent like a reed...Came round the gusty Skaw, So that our foe we saw And as to catch the gale Round veered the flapping sail, Death ! was the helmsman's hail, Death without... | |
| Charles Timothy Brooks - 1851 - 110 Seiten
...launched they to the blart, Bent 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,...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 Seiten
...FOSTER. U7 BALLADS, SONGS, AND SONNETS. XXVII. Round Tower at Newport. ButKEr FOSTKU. 103 XXVI II. " Then launched they to the blast, Bent like a reed each mast." BUCKET FOSTKU. lo 5 XXIX. " And in the forest's shade Our vows were plighted." BIKKKT FOSTKU. 10S XXX,... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853 - 496 Seiten
...his armed hand, Saw we old Hildebrand, " Then launched they to the blast, Bent like a reed each mast3 Yet we were gaining fast. When the wind failed us ; 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... | |
| Ludwig Herrig - 1854 - 580 Seiten
...Norsemen! When on (he white sea-strand, Waving his armed hand, Saw we old Hildebrand, With twenty horsemen. „Then launched they to the blast, Bent like a reed each mast, Yet we were gaining fast, AVhen the wind failed us; And with a sudden flaw Game round the gusty Skaw, So that onr foe we saw... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 568 Seiten
...Among the Norsemen ! When on the white-sea strand, Waving his armed hand, Saw we old Hildebrand, 334 " Then launched they to the blast, Bent like a reed...gale Round veered the flapping sail, Death ! was the helmsman 's hail, Death without quarter ! Mid-ships with iron keel Struck we her ribs of steel Down... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1856 - 432 Seiten
...his armed hand, Saw we old Hildebrand, With twenty horsemen. " Then launched they to the blast, Bout like a reed each mast, Yet we were gaining fast, When the wind foiled us; And with a sudden flaw Came round the gusty Skuw, So that our foe we saw Laugh as he hailed... | |
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