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 Oxford Book of American Verse - Page 66edited by - 1927 - 680 pagesFull view - About this book
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1848 - 152 pages
...town. But here he was exhausted, and died heart-broken and in despair. June, 1848. PART THE FIRST. THIS 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... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1848 - 176 pages
...sudden and dreadful fate of the Acadians.'' PART THK FIRST. PRELUDE. THIS is the forest primaeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with...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... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1849 - 170 pages
...dreadful fate of the Acadians." PART THE FIRST. PKELUDE. THIS is the forest prim»val. The murmur, ing pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in...bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neigbouring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest. 8 EVANGELBS'E.... | |
| 432 pages
...story of "the forest primaeval," where, " The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with mosi, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight,...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... | |
| Eliza Cook - English periodicals - 1849 - 432 pages
...which it serves to embody. "Evangeline" is a story of "the forest primaeval," where, " The mnrmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in...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 - American poetry - 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...bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighbouring ocean EVANGELINE. Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest.... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...HATH ITS PEARLS 542 POETIC APHORISMS 543 NOTES . . 547 EVANGELINE, A TALE OF ACADIE. EVANGELINE. THIS 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... | |
| Philarète Chasles - American literature - 1852 - 334 pages
...history. CHAPTEE VI. EVANGELINE: AN ACADIAN HISTORY. SECTION I. HISTORY OF THE ACADIAN COLONY. " THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the...accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest." THUS does Evangeline, that singular poem by Longfellow, commence. The scene and the actors belong,... | |
| Philarète Chasles - American literature - 1852 - 334 pages
...history. CHAPTER VI. EVANGELINE: AN ACADIAN HISTORY. SECTION I. HISTORT OP THE ACADIAN COLONY. u THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the...accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest." THUS does Evangeline, that singular poem by Longfellow, commence. The scene and the actors belong,... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853 - 470 pages
...shadows fall ; Sleep and oblivion Reign over all. EYANGELINE, A TALE OF ACADIE, 1847. EVANGELINE. THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the...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,... | |
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