The Wreck Of The Hesperus

Question 1

Verse 1

Answer 1

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.

Question 2

Verse 2

Answer 2

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.

Question 3

Verse 3

Answer 3

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 Woe!