RECORD ID

2667

FIGURE

Ghost

NARRATIVE

Retellings and Adaptations

PRINTED LABEL

ghosts

PUBLICATION

Nevermore; Rolf Boldrewood

AUTHOR

Not specified

ked in curiously weird cadence, like the ghosts of shipwrecked mariners. Yet no breath of rising wind or gathering tempest stirred the black waveless plain which stretched for so many a mile seaward and lay illimitable between the murky shores. To those long versed in sea signs--and there were many such on board this mockery of a ship--a storm was imminent. Phantom-like, motionless, lay the _President_ on the oily moveless deep, a corpse-like hull upon the lifeless water. In that hour she seemed a derelict of that dread fleet which the poet dreamed of in his weirdest, grandest poem: 'And ships were drifting with the dead To shores.

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1. 01ghosts in How did the Natives of Australia become Acquainted with the Demigods and Daemonia, and with the Superstitions of the Ancient Races?1854 · Internet Archive
2. 02ghosts in How did the Natives of Australia become Acquainted with the Demigods and Daemonia, and with the Superstitions of the Ancient Races?1854 · Internet Archive
3. 03ghosts in Queensland, Australia1861 · Internet Archive
4. 04ghosts in Queensland, Australia1861 · Internet Archive
5. 05ghosts in Old Tales of a Young Country1871 · Project Gutenberg Australia
6. 06ghosts in For the Term of His Natural Life1874 · Project Gutenberg