 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.  Poems - Page 137by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850Full view - About this book
 | Frederic Swartwout Cozzens - Nova Scotia - 1859 - 338 pages
...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" "We are re-reading Evangeline line by line. And here, at this turn of the road, we encounter two Acadian... | |
 | Frederic Swartwout Cozzens - Nova Scotia - 1859 - 346 pages
...trees are "Patricians," these are Patriarchs. "THE murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with most, 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*."... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1860 - 468 pages
...all. EVANGELINE, A TALE OF ACADIE, 184 7. EVANGELINE. THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments...harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms. Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest. This is the forest primeval ; but... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Gilbert - American poetry - 1860 - 448 pages
...persons involved in these calamitous proccedings. THIS is the forest primeval. Tho murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments...twilight, Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetie, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns,... | |
 | Laurence Oliphant - Abkhazia (Georgia) - 1860 - 276 pages
...sweet guru and common oak, smothered in creepers and Spanish moss, raise their lofty summits, and "look like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic...harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms." The yellow hickory and fan-leaved palmetto and graceful cane conceal the sturdy trunks of the larger... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Readers (Secondary) - 1861 - 562 pages
...it. A FOREST SCENE. — Longfellow. This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and tha hemlock Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct...bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns the deep-voiced neighboring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest. AN ENGL1SH PAKE... | |
 | 1861 - 42 pages
...enter, and soon found ourselves, in a "forest primeval;" where the VOL. xxvn. 7* " 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."... | |
 | Hugh Macmillan - 1861 - 384 pages
...Longfellow opens his beautiful poem of "Evangeline" — " 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."... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1862 - 548 pages
...pines and the hemlocks, [light. Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twiStand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic....rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighbouring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest. This is the forest primeval ; but... | |
 | 1862 - 348 pages
...determined to enter, and soon found ourselves, in a " forest primeval ;" where 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."... | |
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