 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.  Evangeline - Page 6by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1856 - 101 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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...sad and prophetic ; Stand like harpers hoar, with heards that rest on their bosoms ; Loud from its rocky caverns, the ilcep-voicrd neighbouring ocean... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853 - 470 pages
...black shadows fall ; Sleep and oblivion Reign over all. EYANGELINE, A TALE OF ACADIE, 1847. EVANGELINE. THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and...voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with heards that rest on their bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighbouring ocean Speaks,... | |
 | 1853 - 604 pages
...measure of the best of our modern hexameters. Thus Mr. Longfellow's charming poem Evangeline opens:— " This is the forest primeval, the murmuring pines,...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... | |
 | Harry Penciller - 1854 - 304 pages
...upon the forest surrounding us, dark and dim, these stanzas from Evangeline came into my memory — " This is the forest primeval ; the murmuring pines...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."... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1854 - 580 pages
...SPECIMENS. P 0 ET S. HENRY WÄD8WOBTH LONGFELLOW. Born 1807. EVANGELINE. A Tale of Acadie. PART THE FIRST. THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and...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.... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1854 - 482 pages
...Blighted love shall never blow ! Tranelated by VISCOCXT STEASGFOBD. Ltm DE CAUSE™, 1B24-1579. 9 XII. THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and...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?.... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1855 - 510 pages
...! Tran»lated)iy VISCOUNT STEANOFOED. Luis DE CAMOENS, 1524-1579. 0 XII. Jfnmt. FROM " EVANOELINE." THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and...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.... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1855 - 478 pages
...Jtorist. rnOH " EVANQELINE." T^HIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks. JL Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of old, with voices sad and prophetie, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms.... | |
 | Harry Penciller - 1856 - 296 pages
...upon the forest surrounding us, dark and dim, these stanzas from Evangeline came into my memory — "This is the forest primeval; the murmuring pines...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."... | |
 | 1856 - 482 pages
...!:,;•'. 9 XII. f fee |0rtst. TIHIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, _L 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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