THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms. The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Page 242by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1856 - 400 pagesFull view - About this book
| People's and Howitt's journal - 938 pages
...the shore of the mournful and misty Atlantic, By the evening fire repeat Evan^eline's story; "While from its rocky caverns the deep-voiced neighbouring...Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of tho forest. Richmond. — That poem is a gem— and will shine in American literature. Longfellow is... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1848 - 176 pages
...fate of the Acadians.'' PART THK FIRST. PRELUDE. THIS is the forest primaeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments...bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neigbouring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest. This is the forest... | |
| Eliza Cook - 1849 - 432 pages
...it serves to embody. "Evangeline" is a story of "the forest primaeval," where, " The mnrmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments...sad and prophetic ; Stand like harpers hoar, with heards that rest on their bosoms ; Loud from its rocky caverns, the ilcep-voicrd neighbouring ocean... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 476 pages
...all. EYANGELINE, A TALE OF ACADIE, 1847. EVANGELINE. THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pmes and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments...rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighbouring ocean EVANGELINE. Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest. This is the forest... | |
| Philarète Chasles - 1852 - 334 pages
...HISTORY. SECTION I. HISTORT OP THE ACADIAN COLONY. u THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments...bosoms Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighboring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest." THUS does Evangeline,... | |
| Philarète Chasles - 1852 - 334 pages
...HISTORY. SECTION I. HISTORY OF THE ACADIAN COLONY. " THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments...bosoms Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighboring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest." THUS does Evangeline,... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853 - 470 pages
...all. EYANGELINE, A TALE OF ACADIE, 1847. EVANGELINE. THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments...voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with heards that rest on their bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighbouring ocean Speaks,... | |
| 1853 - 604 pages
...Longfellow's charming poem Evangeline opens:— " This is the forest primeval, the murmuring pines, and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight." In the second line we have already an instance, garments, of a dissyllable foot inserted among the... | |
| Ludwig Herrig - 1854 - 580 pages
...1807. EVANGELINE. A Tale of Acadie. PART THE FIRST. THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments...green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of old, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms.... | |
| Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1854 - 482 pages
...VISCOCXT STEASGFOBD. Ltm DE CAUSE™, 1B24-1579. 9 XII. THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks. Bearded -with moss, and in garments...green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of old, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosom?.... | |
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