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" 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 ; Or where the denser grove receives No sunlight from above,... "
Poems - Page ix
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 15

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - 1840 - 566 pages
...Alternate come and go : Or where the denser grove receives No sunlight from above, But the dark folinge interweaves, In one unbroken roof of leaves, Underneath...shadows hardly move. Beneath some patriarchal tree I laj upon the ground ; His hoary areas uplifted he, And all the broad leaves over me Clapped their little...
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Voices of the Night

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1840 - 182 pages
...between, Shadows dark and sunlight sheen Alternate come and go ; Or where the denser grove receives No sunlight from above, But the dark foliage interweaves...Underneath whose sloping eaves, The shadows hardly move. I Beneath some patriarchal tree I lay upon the ground ; His hoary arms up-lifted he, Ahd all the-"...
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The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volume 15

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1840 - 558 pages
...: Or where the denser grot e receives No sanlight from above, But the dark foliage interweaves, la one unbroken roof of leaves, Underneath whose sloping eaves, The shadows hardly move. Be&eath some patriarchal tree I lay upon the ground ; His hoary arms up-lifted he, And all the broad...
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Voices of the Night

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1843 - 174 pages
...between, Shadows dark and sunlight sheen Alternate come and go ; Or where the denser grove receives No sunlight from above, But the dark foliage interweaves...Underneath whose sloping eaves The shadows hardly move. B Beneath some patriarchal tree I lay upon the ground ; His hoary arms uplifted he, And all the broad...
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The Foreign quarterly review [ed. by J.G. Cochrane]., Volume 32

John George Cochrane - 1844 - 636 pages
...the ' Prelude to the Voices of the Night.' we take a few stanzas of exquisite grace and tenderness. Beneath some patriarchal tree I lay upon the ground ; His hoary arms uplifted he, And all the broad leases over me Clapped their little hands in glee, The feelings of a dream— As of innumerable wings,...
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Papers on Literature and Art, Parts 1-2

Margaret Fuller - 1846 - 380 pages
...the Night — Beneath some patriarchal tree I lay upon the ground ; • His hoary arms uplifted be, And all the broad leaves over me Clapped their little hands in glee With one continuous sound. What an unpleasant mixture of images ! Such never rose in a man's mind, as he lay on the ground and...
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Papers on Literature and Art, Parts 1-2

Margaret Fuller - 1846 - 382 pages
...example of what we do not like, one of his worst pieces, the Prelude to the Voices of the Night — Beneath some patriarchal tree I lay upon the ground ; His hoary arms uplifted be, And all the broad leaves over me Clapped their little hands in glee With one continuous sound....
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Papers on literature and art, Part 2

Sarah Margaret Ossoli (march.) - 1846 - 198 pages
...example of what we do not like, one of his worst pieces, the Prelude to the Voices of the Night — Beneath some patriarchal tree I lay upon the ground ; His hoary arms uplifted be, And all the broad leaves over me Clapped their little hands in glee With one continuous sound....
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Visitor: Or Monthly Instructor

1847 - 490 pages
...How vividly can I now recall many of my boyish revels in lonely dingles and sequestered glades ! " Beneath some patriarchal tree I lay upon the ground...arms uplifted he, And all the broad leaves over me Clapp'd their little hands in glee, With one continuous sound : " A slumberous sound — a sound that...
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The Family friend [ed. by R.K. Philp].

Robert Kemp Philp - 1865 - 1220 pages
...sunlight sheen, Alternate come and go. " Or where the denser grore receives No sunlight from above, Bat the dark foliage interweaves In one unbroken roof...Beneath some patriarchal tree I lay upon the ground. His leafj arms uplifted he, And all the broad leaves over me Clapped their little hands in glee With one...
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