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HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

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 INTRODUCTION.

“ NORMAN’S WOE” is the picturesque name

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
will scarcely lose while the English language
endures. Nor does it matter to the legend lover
that the ill—fated schooner was not “gored” by
the “cruel rocks ” just at this point, but nearer to
the Gloucester coast.
The poet has done many things well; and he
has done few things better than this ballad in
the quaint, old-time style, with its nervous energy
and sonorous rhythm, wherein one hears the

trampling of waves and crashing of timbers.

 INTRODUCTION

Indeed, it is so well done, by art concealing art,

that much of its force and beauty escape the
careless reader; whereas, the thoughtful one finds
in it an ever-increasing charm. It is worth noting
that love, the usual ballad motif, is absent and is
not missed. The almost human struggles and
sufferings of the vessel, and the contrast between
the daring, scornful skipper, and the gentle, devout
maiden, in the midst of the terrors of storm and
wreck, furnish abundant emotion and imagery; in
truth, many of the lines are literally packed with
color, movement, and meaning.
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BY

H. WINTHROP PIERCE, W. L. TAYLOR,

EDMUND H. GARRETT, A. Buauzx,

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W. F. llALSALL, A. J. LEWIS.

DRAWN AND ENGRAVED UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF

GEORGE T. ANDREW.
 E HIS EDITION OFTHE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS IS PUBLISHED BY

SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT WITH MESSRS. HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN 6; CO.,

THE AUTHORIZED PUBLISHERS OF MR. LONGFELLOW'S WORKS.

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And he steered for the open sea.

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“Some ship in distress, that cannot live
In such an angry sea!”
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O say, what may it be?”
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A frozen corpse was he.

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A fisherman stood aghast,
To see the form of a maiden fair,
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The salt sea was frozen on her breast, ’19“

The salt tears in her eyes;
And he saw her hair, like the brown sea-weed,
On the billows fall and rise.

(a Such was the wreck of the Hesperus,

In the midnight and the snow!
Christ save us all from a death like this,
On the reef of Norman’s \Noe!