 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.  Landscape in American Poetry - Page 39by Lucy Larcom - 1879 - 124 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1848 - 182 pages
...BY METCALF AND COMPANY, PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY. PART THE FIRST. CO THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with...like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced... | |
 | 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...like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic ; Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns, the... | |
 | Eliza Cook - 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...like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic ; Stand like harpers hoar, with heards that rest on their bosoms ; Loud from its rocky caverns, the... | |
 | 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,...like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic ; Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms ; Loud from its rocky caverns, the... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 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...like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...APHORISMS 543 NOTES . . 547 EVANGELINE, A TALE OF ACADIE. EVANGELINE. THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with...like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced... | |
 | Philarète Chasles - 1852 - 334 pages
...EVANGELINE: AN ACADIAN HISTORY. SECTION I. HISTORT OP THE ACADIAN COLONY. u THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with...like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced... | |
 | Philarète Chasles - 1852 - 334 pages
...EVANGELINE: AN ACADIAN HISTORY. SECTION I. HISTORY OF THE ACADIAN COLONY. " THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with...like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853 - 470 pages
...oblivion Reign over all. EYANGELINE, A TALE OF ACADIE, 1847. EVANGELINE. THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with...like Druids of eld,' with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with heards that rest on their bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced... | |
 | 1853 - 604 pages
...hexameters. Thus Mr. Longfellow's charming poem Evangeline opens:— " This is the forest primeval, the murmuring pines, and the hemlocks, Bearded with...and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight." In the second line we have already an instance, garments, of a dissyllable foot inserted among the... | |
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