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" Soon were lost in a maze of sluggish and devious waters, Which, like a network of steel, extended in every direction. Over their heads the towering and tenebrous boughs of the cypress Met in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in mid-air Waved like banners... "
Evangeline, a tale [in verse] illustr. from designs by J.E. Benham, B ... - Page 65
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1866
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 87

1860 - 834 pages
...I passed among them. " They too swerved from their course ; and, entering the Bayou of Plaquemine, Soon were lost in a maze of sluggish and devious waters,...direction. Over their heads the towering and tenebrous l>oughs of the cypress Mot in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in mid-air Waved like banners that...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 60

1859 - 868 pages
...river away to the eastward. They too swerved from their course ; and, entering the Bayou of Plaquemine, Soon were lost in a maze of sluggish and devious waters,...cathedrals. Death-like the silence seemed and unbroken, save hy the herons Home to their roosts in the cedar-trees returning at sunset, Or by the owl, as he greeted...
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The North American Review, Volume 66

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1848 - 540 pages
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Poems on slavery, early poems, additional poems, and ballads

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1848 - 128 pages
...eastward. They, too, swerved from their course ; and, entering the Bayou of Plaquemine, Soon w ere lost in a maze of sluggish and devious waters, Which,...the silence seemed, and unbroken, save by the herons [From the Athcntsum. Home to their roosts in the cedar-trees returning at snnset, Or by the owl, as...
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Evangeline: a tale [in verse].

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1848 - 176 pages
...away to the eastward. They, too, swerved from their course; and, entering the Bayou of Plaquemine, Soon were lost in a maze of sluggish and devious waters,...heads the towering and tenebrous boughs of the cypress Ml in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in mid air Vaved like banners that hang on the walls of ancient...
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Evangeline: a tale [in verse].

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1849 - 170 pages
...away to the eastward. They, too, swerved from their course; and, entering the Bayou of Plaquemine, Soon were lost in a maze of sluggish and devious waters,...unbroken, save by the herons Home to their roosts in the cedar trees returning at sunset, Or by the owl, as he greeted the moon with demoniac laughter. Lovely...
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The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...away to the eastward. They, too, swerved from their course; and, entering the Bayou of Plaquemine, Soon were lost in a maze of sluggish and devious waters,...heads the towering and tenebrous boughs of the cypress Waved like banners that hang on the walls of ancient cathedrals. Deathlike the silence seemed, and...
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Holden's Dollar Magazine, Volumes 1-2

1918 - 798 pages
...away to the eastward, They, too, swerved from their course ; and, entering the BIJTOQ of Flaqnemine, Soon were lost in a maze' of sluggish and devious...their heads the towering and tenebrous boughs of the cyprai Met in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in mid air Waved like banners that hang on the walls...
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Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1854 - 174 pages
...away to the eastward. They, too, swerved from their course ; and, entering the Bayou of Plaquemine, Soon were lost in a maze of sluggish and devious waters,...cypress Met in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in mid cur Waved like banners that hang on the walls of ancient cathedrals. Deathlike the silence seemed,...
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Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1854 - 124 pages
...through the Golden Coast, and groves of orange and citron, Sweeps with majestic curve the river 53 Soon were lost in a maze of sluggish and devious waters,...cypress Met in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in mid-air Waved like hanners that hang on the walls of ancient cathedrals. Deathlike the silence seemed,...
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