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At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood aghast, To see the form of a maiden fair, Lashed close to a drifting mast. The salt sea was frozen on her breast, The salt tears in her eyes; And he saw her hair, like the brown sea-weed, On the billows fall and rise. Such was the wreck of the Hesperus,
The Wreck of the Hesperus by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 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 month of May.
of a rocky headland, reef, and islet on. the coast of Massachusetts, between Gloucester. and Magnolia. The special disaster In which the. name originated had long been lost from memory. when the poet Longfellow chose the spot as a. background for his description of the " Wreck of. the Hesperus," and gave it an association that it.
22 de oct. de 2004 · Hesperus (Ship) -- Poetry Subject: Shipwrecks -- Massachusetts -- Poetry Category: Text: EBook-No. 13830: Release Date: Oct 22, 2004: Most Recently Updated: Dec 18, 2020: Copyright Status: Public domain in the USA. Downloads: 178 downloads in the last 30 days. Project Gutenberg eBooks are always free!
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‘The Wreck of the Hesperus’ is a narrative poem about a sea captain’s arrogance and downfall as his daughter, his ship, and his crew are all destroyed in a hurricane. ‘The Wreck of the Hesperus’ opens as the speaker describes the boat called the “Hesperus” and its captain.
