PLEASANT it was, when woods were green, And winds were soft and low, To lie amid some sylvan scene, Where, the long drooping boughs between, Shadows dark and sunlight sheen, Alternate come and go. Voices of the Night - Page viiiby Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1839 - 144 pagesFull view - About this book
| Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - 1840 - 566 pages
...to transcribe the first six stanzas of the ' Prelude' to the volume under notice : h was, when woodi were green, And winds were soft and low, To lie amid some sylvan scene, Where, ine lung druoping boughs between, Shadows dark and sunlight sheen, Alternate come and go : Or where... | |
| Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1840 - 558 pages
...inclination to transcribe the first six stanzas of the ' Prelude' to the volume under notice : PL tv <л N r it was, when woods were green, And winds were soft and low, To lie amid some »ylvan scene, Where, the long drooping boughs between, Shadows dark and sunlight sheen, Alternate... | |
| Robert Kemp Philp - 1865 - 1220 pages
...II.— THE ELM. " PLIASAXT it was, when woods were green, And windi were soft and low, To lie mmid some sylvan scene Where, the long drooping boughs between, Shadows dark and aunlight sheen, Alternate come and go. " Or where the denser grove receives No sunlight from above,... | |
| Thomas Powell - 1850 - 380 pages
...admiration. He is too fastidious to be natural. His hymns to his Goddess breathe too strongly of the lamp. " Pleasant it was, when woods were green, And winds...drooping boughs between, Shadows dark and sunlight sheen Alternately come and go. " Or where the denser grove receives No sunlight from above, But the dark... | |
| Thomas Powell - 1850 - 384 pages
...admiration. He is too fastidious to be natural. His hymns to his Goddess breathe too strongly of the lamp. " Pleasant it was, when woods were green, And winds...drooping boughs between, Shadows dark and sunlight sheen Alternately come and go. " Or where the denser grove receives No sunlight from above, But the dark... | |
| John Sartain, Caroline Matilda Kirkland, John Seely Hart - 1851 - 1054 pages
...not unwise choice. It is pleasant on these summer afternoons, « When wood« are green, And winds are soft and low, To lie amid some sylvan scene, Where,...Shadows dark and sunlight sheen Alternate come and go." For company we need none better than a book well suited to the time, calculated to interest and amuse,... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853 - 496 pages
.......*.. 296 THE SPANISH STUDENT. THE SPANISH STUDENT • 0 . . . . 301 VOICES OF THE NIGHT. 1840 PRELUDE, PLEASANT it was, when woods were green, And winds...unbroken roof of leaves, Underneath whose sloping eaves Beneath some patriarchal tree I lay upon the ground ; His hoary arms uplifted he. And all the broad... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853 - 504 pages
...469 VOICES OF THE NIGHT. 1840 PRELUDE. PLEASANT it was, when woods were green, And winds were soil and low, To lie amid some sylvan scene, Where, the...Alternate come and go ; Or where the denser grove receivesNo sunlight from above, But the dark foliage interweaves In one unbroken roof of leaves, Underneath... | |
| Queenwood college - 1853 - 292 pages
...accomplishments such as the above with a keen susceptibility to the influence of floral beauty, love 'To lie amid some sylvan scene, Where, the long, drooping boughs between, Shadows dark and sun-tight sheen Alternate come and go ; ' to whose musings Fancy may reveal the hidden feelings, the... | |
| Cuthbert Bede - 1853 - 372 pages
...Verdant's undergraduate's gown—and was proudly escorted from College to College by her enamoured swain. " Pleasant it was, when woods were green, And winds were soft and low," when in a House-boat, and in four-oars, they made an expedition (" a wine and water party," as Mr.... | |
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