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" Swinging from its great arms, the trumpet-flower and the grapevine Hung their ladder of ropes aloft like the ladder of Jacob, On whose pendulous stairs the angels ascending, descending, Were the swift humming-birds, that flitted from blossom to blossom. "
Evangeline : a Tale of Acadie - Page 72
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1848 - 122 pages
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Poems on slavery, early poems, additional poems, and ballads

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1848 - 128 pages
...the grape-vine Hung their ladder of ropes aloft like the ladder of Jacob, On whose pendulous stiiirs the angels ascending, descending, Were the swift humming-birds,...blossom to blossom. Such was the vision Evangeline eaw as she slumbered beneath it. [From Ihs AlhencEum. Filled was her heart with love, and the dawn...
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The American Whig Review, Volume 1; Volume 7

1848 - 722 pages
...from Scripture : — " The trumpet flower and the grape-vine Hung their ladder of ropes aloft like the ladder of Jacob, On whose pendulous stairs the angels ascending, descending, Were swift humming birds that flitted from blossom to blossom." Have the old painters, did Kembrandt, 164...
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The American Whig Review, Volume 1; Volume 7

1848 - 734 pages
...from Scripture : — " The trumpet flower and the grape-vine Hung their ladder of ropes aloft like the ladder of Jacob, On whose pendulous stairs the angels ascending, descending, Were swift humming birds that flitted from blossom to blossom." Have the old painters, did Rembrandt, 164...
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Brownson's Quarterly Review, Volume 4

Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1850 - 560 pages
...be said of this ? — " The trumpet-flower and the grape-vine Hung their ladder of ropes aloft, like the ladder of Jacob, On whose pendulous stairs the...humming-birds, that flitted from blossom to blossom." It is a vision, but a dream too much like the forget-me-nots of the angels not to be indorsed by the...
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 99

Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1853 - 516 pages
...the grape-vine Hung their ladder of ropes aloft like the ladder of Jacob, On whose pendulous steps the angels ascending, descending, Were the swift humming-birds, that flitted from blossom to blossom. Hot and red on his lips still burned the flush of the fever, As if life, like the Hebrew, with blood...
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The New Monthly Magazine, Volume 99

1853 - 538 pages
...the grape-vine Hung their ladder of ropes aloft like the ladder of Jacob, On whose pendulous steps the angels ascending, descending, Were the swift humming-birds, that flitted from blossom to blossom. Hot and red on his lips still burned the flush of the fever, As if life, like the Hebrew, with blood...
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Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1854 - 174 pages
...from its great arms, the trumpet-flower t and the grape-vine Hung their ladder of ropes aloft like the ladder of Jacob, On whose pendulous stairs the...heart with love, and the dawn of an opening heaven 7795B Lighted her soul in sleep with the glory of regions celestial. Nearer and ever nearer, among...
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Handbuch der nordamericanischen National-Literatur: Sammlung von ...

Ludwig Herrig - 1854 - 580 pages
...Swinging from its great arms, the trumpetflower and the grape vine Hung their ladder of ropes aloft, like the ladder of Jacob, On whose pendulous stairs the angels ascending, descending, Were the swift humming birds, that flitted from blossom to blossom. Such was the vision Evangeline saw äs she slumbered...
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The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 472 pages
...Swinging from its great arms, the trumpet-flower and the grape-vine Hung their ladder of ropes aloft like the ladder of Jacob, On whose pendulous stairs the...Lighted her soul in sleep with the glory of regions Nearer and ever nearer, among the numberless islands, Darted a light, swift boat, that sped away o'er...
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The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. With prefatory notice

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 578 pages
...Swinging from its great arms, the trumpet flower and the grape-vine Hung their ladder of ropes aloft, like the ladder of Jacob, On whose pendulous stairs the angels ascending, descending, Were the swift humming birds, that flitted from blossom to blossom." About a dozen such examples might be culled from...
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