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" 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 New Anthology of American Poetry: Traditions and Revolutions, Beginnings ... - Page 235
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The Rhyme and Reason of Country Life, Or, Selections from Fields Old and New

Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1855 - 478 pages
...garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of old, with voices sad and prophetie, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on...accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest. HW SONG. Under the greenwood tree Who loves to lie with me, And tune his merry note Unto the sweet...
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The Rhyme and Reason of Country Life, Or, Selections from Fields Old and New

Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1855 - 510 pages
...! Tran»lated)iy VISCOUNT STEANOFOED. Luis DE CAMOENS, 1524-1579. 0 XII. Jfnmt. FROM " EVANOELINE." THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and...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....
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Poems

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1856 - 810 pages
...LEGEND 399 THE SONG OF HIAWATHA 537 NOTES 709 INDEX 763 EVANGELINE, A TALE OF ACADIB. 1847. EVANGELINE. is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the...bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighbouring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest. This is the...
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The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1856 - 432 pages
...persons involved in these calamitous proceedings.] THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pineB and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments...bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighbouring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest. This is the...
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Rural Life in America: Or, Summer and Winter in the Country

Harry Penciller - 1856 - 296 pages
...upon the forest surrounding us, dark and dim, these stanzas from Evangeline came into my memory — "This is the forest primeval; the murmuring pines...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."...
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The Rhyme and Reason of Country Life

1856 - 482 pages
..._L Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight. Stand like Druids of old, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers...rest on their bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns the deep- voiced neighboring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest....
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The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1857 - 428 pages
...The poem is descriptive of the fate of some of the persons involved in these calamitous proceedings.] THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and...harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms. Lond from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighbouring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate...
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Transatlantic sketches

Philip Kelland - 1858 - 140 pages
...to enter fully into the spirit of the beautiful lines with which Longfellow opens his poem : — " This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and...bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighbouring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest." ST. JOHN, NEW...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 51

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1858 - 710 pages
...the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, bearded with moss, and in garments £reen, indistinct in the twilight, stand like Druids of eld,...wail of the forest. ' This is the forest primeval j but where are the hearts that beneath it leaped like the roc, when be hears in the woodland the voice...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 51

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1858 - 690 pages
...noble opening hexameters of LONOFKLLOW, to — not 'plain,' but most exquisitely poetical prose : ' THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and...bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighhoring ocean speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest. ' This is the...
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