 THE ARROW AND THE SONG. I SHOT an arrow into the air, It fell to earth I knew not where ; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where ; For who has sight so keen...  The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Seite 137von Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1884Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1884 - 228 Seiten
...earth, I knew not where ; For who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song 7 ' Long, long afterward, in an oak, I found the arrow,...beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.' In addition to his ordinary pulpit ministrations, we may note the Bible-classes which Mr. Boyd himself... | |
 | Smith C. Ferguson, Emory Adams Allen - 1884 - 648 Seiten
...where. I breathed a song into the air ; It fell on earth, I knew not where. Long, long afterwards, in an oak, I found the arrow still unbroke, And the...beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend." — HW LONGFELLOW. NFLUENCE is to a man what flavor is to fruit, or fragrance to the flower. It does... | |
 | 1885 - 898 Seiten
...For who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song ? Long, long, afterwards in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke ; And the...beginning to end I found again in the heart of a friend.' GCMS HENRY KIRKE WHITE. the Twenty-first of March, the first morning of Spring and the hundredth anniversary... | |
 | 1885 - 304 Seiten
...who has sight so keen and strong, That it can follow the flight of song ? I .mi!;, long afterwards, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke ; And the...from beginning to end, I found again in the heart ol a friend. THE BIRDS AND THE PHEASANT. I SHOT a partridge in the air, It fell in turnips, " Don,"... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1886 - 350 Seiten
...with my hack to the fire, and glanced on to the paper with arrow's speed. Literally an improvisation." I SHOT an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I...beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend. SONNETS MEZZO CAMMIN. Written at Boppard on the Rhine, August 25, 1842, just before leaving for home.... | |
 | Sheldon and Company - 1886 - 208 Seiten
...breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where ; For who has sight so keen an tl strong, That it can follow the flight of song ? Long,...beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend. —Lmgfettow. •e&l'i -eo s6cks thread lln'en shawl miig'lin •eam 'brie s-earf tow'el§ flan'nelg... | |
 | Eric Sutherland Robertson - 1887 - 204 Seiten
...cavil. The mingling of lyric with epigram somewhat recalls the happiest efforts of Walter Savage Landor. THE ARROW AND THE SONG. I SHOT an arrow into the air,...beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend. These lines were composed while Longfellow was strolling through " Norton's Woods " at Cambridge. "... | |
 | National Conference on Social Welfare - 1888 - 508 Seiten
...abundance as everlasting as human need, with a succession as enduring as the generations of men. " I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I...beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend." Bad as is this world, it is good enough to transmute and to hold immortality within it. The beauty... | |
 | 1901 - 778 Seiten
...his friends look upon him as the guiding star to their lives. Longfellow beautifully pictured this in the "Arrow and the Song." "I shot an arrow Into the...beginning to end, I found again In the heart of a friend." Not only are we responsible for the tendency of our influence, but the strength of character which... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1889 - 264 Seiten
...Arabs, And as silently steal away. THE ARROW AND THE SONG. I SHOT an arrow into the air, It fell to the earth, I knew not where ; For, so swiftly it flew,...beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend. WALTER VON DER VOGELWEID. [WALTER VON DER VOGELWEID, or BIRD-MEADOW, was one of the principal Minnesingers... | |
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