 I HAVE read, in some old marvellous tale, Some legend strange and vague, That a midnight host of spectres pale Beleaguered the walls of Prague. Beside the Moldau's rushing stream, With the wan moon overhead, TTiere stood, as in an awful dream, The army...  The Bowdoin Poets - Page 30by Edward Payson Weston - 1840 - 188 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1840 - 818 pages
...Soon afterward Dorathen was my wife THE BELEAGUERED CITY.... BY H. I have read in some old, wondrous tale, Some legend strange and vague, That a midnight host of spectres pale Belcagured the walls of Prague. Beside the Moldau's rushing stream, With the won moon overhead, There... | |
 | Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - 1904 - 484 pages
...figured six ghostly Army Corps which SARK said always reminded him of LONGFELLOW'S Beleaguered City:— I have read, in some old marvellous tale, Some legend...strange and vague, That a midnight host of spectres pale l the walls of Prague. No other voice nor sound was there, No drum, nor sentry's pace ; The mist-like... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1842 - 638 pages
...laid aside, If I but remember only Such as these have lived and died ! THE BELEAGURED CITY. I HATE read in some old marvellous tale Some legend strange and vague, That a midnight host of spectres pale Beleagured the walls of Prague. Beside the Moldau's rushing stream, With the wan moon overhead, There... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1849 - 448 pages
...man who had escaped by the skin of his teeth, from wintering near the antarctic circle: CHAPTER Vli. '•Beside the Moldau's rushing stream, With the wan...stood, as in an awful dream, The army of the dead." LONGFELLOW. MOST of our readers will understand what was meant by Mary Pratt's " inclination of the... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 434 pages
...faint, their images shall gleam, Like a bright rainbow on an evening stream. THE BELEAGUERED CITY. BY LONGFELLOW. I have read in some old marvellous tale...and vague,— That a midnight host of spectres pale Beleaguer'd the walls of Prague. Beside the Moldan's rushing stream. The wan moon overhead. There stood,... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...other), privation, disappointment and satiety, are not without the most salutary tendencies." — Paley. I HAVE read in some old marvellous tale, Some legend...Beside the Moldau's rushing stream, With the wan moon over head, There stood, as in an awful dream, The army of the dead. White as a sea-fog, landward bound,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...Emblems of our own great resurrection, Emblems of the bright and better land. THE BELEAGUERED CITY. I HAVE read, in some old marvellous tale, Some legend strange and vague, Beside the Moldau's rushing streatn, With the wan moon overhead, There stood, as in an awful dream,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1852 - 256 pages
...the bright and better land. TIIK BELEAGUERED CITY. I HAVE read, in some old marvellous tale, Sonic legend strange and vague.' That a midnight host of...spectres pale Beleaguered the walls of Prague. Beside the Moldtiu's rushing stream, With the wan moon overhead. There stood, as in an awful dream, The army of... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853 - 496 pages
...Emblems of our own great resurrection, Emblems of the bright and better land. THE BELEAGUERED CITY. I HAVE read, in some old marvellous tale. Some legend...Moldau's rushing stream, With the wan moon overhead, White as a sea-fog, landward bound, The spectral camp was seen, And, with a sorrowful, deep sound,... | |
 | Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts - 1853 - 792 pages
...scatter the hated assailants. That watchword is a trusting prayer. How well our Longfellow has sung it ! I have read, in some old, marvellous tale, Some legend...Beside the Moldau's rushing stream, With the wan moon o'erhead, There stood, as in an awful dream, The army of the dead. White as a sea-fog, landward bound,... | |
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