Scattered were they, like flakes of snow, when the wind from the northeast Strikes aslant through the fogs that darken the Banks of Newfoundland. Friendless, homeless, hopeless, they wandered from city to city, From the cold lakes of the North to sultry... Evangeline: a tale [in verse]. - Seite 78von Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1848Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Horace Elisha Scudder - 1879 - 474 Seiten
...they wandered from city to city, Irom the cold lakes of the North to sultry Southern savannas, — 675 From the bleak shores of the sea to the lands where the Father of Waters Deep in their sands to bury the scattered bones of the mammoth. Friends they sought and homes; and... | |
| Horace Elisha Scudder - 1879 - 596 Seiten
...lakes of the North to sultry Southern savannas,— 675 From the bleak shores of the sea to the lan.li where the Father of Waters Seizes the hills in his hands, and drags them Deep in their sands to bury the scattered bones of the mammoth. Friends they sought and homes; and... | |
| Horace Elisha Scudder - 1879 - 474 Seiten
...of the North to sultry Southern savannas,— 675 From, the bleak shores of the sea to the l;in-.is where the Father of Waters Seizes the hills in his hands, and drags them Deep in their sands to bury the scattered bones of the mammoth. Friends they sought and homes; and... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1880 - 686 Seiten
...darken the Banks of Newfoundland. Friendless, homeless, hopeless, they wandered from city to city, From the cold lakes of the North to sultry Southern...drags them down to the ocean, Deep in their sands to bnry the scattered bones of the mammoth. Friends they sought and homes ; and many, despairing, heart-broken,... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1880 - 328 Seiten
...darken the Hanks of Newfoundland. Friendless, homeless, hopeless, they wandered from city to city, From the cold lakes of the North to sultry Southern...Seizes the hills in his hands, and drags them down to Deep in their sands to bury the scattered bones of the mammoth. Friends they sought and homes ; and... | |
| 1884 - 682 Seiten
...at its mouth. In the higher grade, when he shall read in Evangeline, for instance, " How the mighty father of waters seizes the hills in his hands, and drags them down to the ocean," he will see the difference between the scientist and the poet ; or, perhaps, how the poet must be himself... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1881 - 740 Seiten
...end, and without an example in story. Friendless, homeless, hopeless, they wandered from city to city, From the cold lakes of the North to sultry Southern...sands to bury the scattered bones of the mammoth. Long among them was seen a maiden who waited and wandered, Lowly and meek in spirit, and patiently... | |
| 1881 - 674 Seiten
...end, and without an example in story. Friendless, homeless, hopeless, they wandered from city to city, From the cold lakes of the North to sultry Southern...shores of the sea to the lands where the Father of Waten Seizes the hills in his hands, and drags them down to the ocean, Deep in their sands to bury... | |
| Alexander Winchell - 1881 - 426 Seiten
...to filch, as fast as they can, the fleeing soil from the possession of the cultivator and owner. " The Father of Waters Seizes the hills in his hands, and drags them down to the ocean, Deep in the sands to bury the scattered bones of the mammoth." Evangeline. Professor Croll estimates the lowering... | |
| Alexander Winchell - 1881 - 414 Seiten
...Alleghanies mingle their tribute to the sea with that which is yielded by the distant Rocky Mountains. " The Father of Waters Seizes the hills in his hands and drags them down to the ocean." From age to age the mountain-tops are descending to the plain; the rounded hills are shrinking; the... | |
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