 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....  Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast - Seite 17von Samuel Adams Drake - 1875 - 459 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Philip Kelland - 1858 - 140 Seiten
...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 the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic.... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1858 - 690 Seiten
...noble opening hexameters of LONOFKLLOW, to — not 'plain,' but most exquisitely poetical prose : ' 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... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1858 - 710 Seiten
...noble opening hexameters of LONGFELLOW, to — not 'plain,' but most exquisitely poetical prose : 'Tnis is 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, with voices sad and prophetic... | |
 | Frederic Swartwout Cozzens - 1859 - 374 Seiten
...Patricians," these are Patriarchs. " THE murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand...of old, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harden hoar with beards that rest on their bosoms." We are re-reading Evangeline line by line. And... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1859 - 724 Seiten
...The poem is descriptive of the fate of aome of the persons involved in these calamitous proceedings. 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,... | |
 | George Patterson - 1859 - 566 Seiten
...original grandeur he often felt awed as if passing amid the stately pillars of the temple of nature. "This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, nnd in garments indistinct in the twilight. Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic,... | |
 | Stafford county - 1860 - 84 Seiten
...A LEGEND OF LUD CHURCH .... 66 THE CHIEFTAIN. "This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the twilight, Stand, like Druids of old, with voices sad and prophetic." hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the Part t&e Jtrst. EVANGELIHE. |NVELOPED... | |
 | Hugh Macmillan - 1861 - 384 Seiten
...description of an American forest, with which 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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1861 - 912 Seiten
...SAND.U.PHOH ..... . 7U4 ....... 71I7 NOTES ......... 801 EVANGELINE, A TALE OF ACADIB. 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 eld, with voices sad and prophetic,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1864 - 488 Seiten
...Spinning-Wheel 437 IX. The Wedding-Day 443 Notes 451 EVANGELINE, A TALE OF ACAD1K. 1847. VOL n. 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 eld, with voices sad and prophetic,... | |
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