 The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast, And the woods against a stormy sky Their giant branches tossed; And the heavy night hung dark The hills and waters o'er, When a band of exiles moored their bark On the wild New England shore.  Elementary English... - Page 126by Lillian Gertrude Kimball - 1911Full view - About this book
 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1849 - 316 pages
...church. 5. Hoary, gray. 6. Anthem, a sacreu song. Landing- of the Pilgrim Fathers. — MRS. HEMANS. 1. THE breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound...woods, against a stormy sky, Their giant branches tost ; And the heavy night hung dark J' The hills and waters o'er, When a band of exiles moored their... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1842 - 334 pages
...realms are till'd; The land is full of harvests and green meads." BRYANT. THE breaking waves dash'd high On a stern and rock-bound coast, And the woods against a stormy sky Their giant branches toss'd; And the heavy night hung dark, The hills and waters o'er, When a band of exiles moor'd their... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans - 1842 - 336 pages
...realms are till'd; The land is full of harvests and green meads." BRYANT. THE breaking waves dash'd high On a stern and rock-bound coast, And the woods against a stormy sky Their giant branches toss'd; And the heavy night hung dark, The hills and waters o'er, When a band of exiles moor'd their... | |
 | Children's poetry - 1843 - 184 pages
...doth then show likest God's, When mercy seasons justice. SHAKSPERE. LANDING OF THE PILGRIM FATHERS. THE breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound...woods, against a stormy sky, Their giant branches tost. And the heavy night hung dark The hills and waters o'er, When a band of exiles moored their bark... | |
 | American periodicals - 1871 - 860 pages
...have been inspired by the theme those of our own tuneful countrywoman, Mrs. Hemans, beginning — " The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound...the woods against a stormy sky Their giant branches tost" During the eight days' absence of the explorers, death had been busy amongst the Pilgrims left... | |
 | Lyman Cobb - Readers - 1845 - 252 pages
...dr), v. to waste, perish ; to fade. dry up. READING LESSON LI 11. TJie Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers. 1. The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound...; 2. And the heavy night hung dark, The hills and Vvaters o'er, When a band of exiles moored their bark On the wild New England shore. 3. Not as the... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Anatomy - 1845 - 330 pages
...common parent of us all, to the divine benignity. — Webster. 735. LANDING OP THE PILGRIM FATHERS. The breaking waves — dashed high On a stern —...against a stormy sky, Their giant branches — tossed; And the heavy night — hungdark— The hills — and waters o'er, When a band of exiles— moored... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1827 - 516 pages
...consider the Apocryphal question. The Landing of the Pilgrims. BY MRS. HEMANS. THE breaking waves dash'd high On a stern and rock-bound coast, And the woods against a stormy sky, Their giant branches toss'd: And the heavy night hung dark The hills and waters o'er, When a band of exiles moor'd their... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...part for ever!" SCOTT. THE LANDING OF THE PILGRIM FATHERS IN NEW ENGLAND.1 THE breaking waves dash'd high On a stern and rock-bound coast, And the woods, against a stormy sky, Their giant branches toss'd ; And the heavy night hung dark The hills and waters o'er, When a band of exiles moor'd their... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...love as free As woman is from thine f THE LANDING OF THE PILGRIM FATHERS. TRE breaking waves dasb'd high On a stern and rock-bound coast, And the woods, against a stormy sky, Their giant branches toss'd ; And the heavy night hung dark The hills and waters o'er, When a band of exiles moor'd their... | |
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