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The Wreck of the Hesperus

Admiral8Q

Troublesome Corsair
<i>I found a really old book filled with awesome poems. I thought I'd share this one <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink.gif" /></i>


It was the schooner Hesperus,
That sailed the wintery sea;
And the skipper had taken his little dughter,
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.

The skipper he stood beside the helm,
With his pipe in his mouth,
And watched how the veering flaw did
blow
The smoke now West, now South.

Then up and spake an old Sailor,
Had sailed the Spanish Main,
"I pray thee, put into yonder port,
For I fear a hurricane.

"Last night the moon had a golden ring,
And to-night no moon we see!"
The skipper he blew a whiff from his pipe.
And a scornful laugh laughed he.

Colder and louder blew the wind,
A gale from the Northeast;
The snow fell hissing in the brine,
And the billows frothed like yeast.

Down came the strorm, and smote amain,
The vessel in it's strength;
She shuddered and paused, like a frighted
steed,
Then leaped here cable's length.

"Come hither! Come hither! my little
daughter,
And do not tremble so;
For I can weather the roughest gale,
That the wind did ever blow."

He wraped her warm in his sailor's
coat
Against the stinging blast;
He cut a rope from a broken spar,
And bound her to the mast.

"Oh father! I hear the church bells ring,
Oh say, what may it be?"
"'T is a fog-bell on a rock-bound coast!"
And he steered for the open sea.

"Oh father! I hear the sound of guns,
Oh say what may it be?"
"Some ship in distress, that cannot live
In such an angry sea!"

"Oh father! I see a gleaming light,
Oh say, what may it be?"
But the father answered never a word,
A frozen corpse was he.

Lashed to the helm, all stiff and stark,
With his face to the skies,
The lantern gleamed through the gleaming
snow
On his fixed and glassy eyes.

Then the maiden clasped her hands and
prayed
That saved she might be;
And she thought of the Christ, who stilled the
wave,
On the Lake of Galilee.

And fast through the midnight dark and
drear,
Through the wistling sleet and snow,
Like a sheeted ghost, the vessel swept
Towards the reef of Norman's Woe,

And ever the fitful gusts between
A sound came from the land;
It was the sound of the trampling surf,
On the rocks and the hard sea-sand.

The breakers were right beneath her bows,
She drifted a weary wreck,
And a whooping billow swept the crew
Like icicles from her deck.

She struck where the white and fleecy
waves
Looked as cardled wool,
But the cruel rocks, they gored her side
Like the horns of an angry bull.

Her rattling shrouds, all sheathed in ice,
With the masts went by the board;
Like a vessel of glass, she strove and sank
Ho! Ho! The breakers roared!

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,
In the midnight and the snow!
Save us all from a death like this,
On the reef of Norman's Woe!

<i>Whew! That's all of it! I hope some one enjoys it as much as I have.</i>
 
Nice poem. Thanks for posting. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheers" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" />
 
<!--QuoteBegin-RandomRebel99+Oct 7 2005, 09:23 AM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(RandomRebel99 @ Oct 7 2005, 09:23 AM)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin-->the king of poems you are. i like to talk like yoda.
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Hmm??? Yoda you talk like? Think not, I do. More Yoda I will talk like! Yes! Hee hee hee!!

If anyone's interested, I'll type out another longfellow poem. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="icon_wink.gif" /> <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheers" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" />

To be honest, I'm a little disappointed in the lack of responses. Oh well, <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/dunno.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":shrug" border="0" alt="dunno.gif" />

Cheers Meigger, Dams, and Rebel guy <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/me.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":onya" border="0" alt="me.gif" />
 
Fire away there 8Q. Always willing to read a good poem. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheers" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" />
 
I second Meigger, 8Q, but to be honest, I prefer your literary endeavors over Longfellows. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/bookish.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":mm" border="0" alt="bookish.gif" />

When you going to write some more stories? <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/poet.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":hmm" border="0" alt="poet.gif" />
 
That Random Rebel be a pirate,
Blustering in from ninty-nine that be,
With a rollicking comment, he causes a torrent,
Swaggerin' drunkenly.
<img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheers" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" />
 
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