 T'HIS 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...  The Eaton Readers... - Page 76edited by - 1906Full view - About this book
 | 1857 - 922 pages
...earshot of the distant roar of the surf — " Where from its rocky caverns the deepvoiced neighbouring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest." Our progress was more rapid during the small hours of the following morning, and we reached the mouth... | |
 | 1848 - 398 pages
...sung by the pines of the forest" »*»*** " While from its rocky caverns the deep-mouthed neighbouring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest" The poetry of Longfellow, as we have seen, is essentially spiritual, and must be spiritually discerned... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1848 - 538 pages
...the evening fire repeat Evangeline's story, While from its rocky caverns the deep-voiced neighbouring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest."— pp. 161-163. ART. VIII. — CRITICAL NOTICES. 1. — Breve Racconlo delle Cose Chiesastiche piii Importanti,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1848 - 176 pages
...the evening fire repeat Evaugeline's story; While from its rocky caverns the deep-voiced neighbouring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest. THE END NEW AND POPULAR WORKS. NOW PUBLISHINO BY HO CLARKE AND CO., 278, STRAND. France and England:... | |
 | Eliza Cook - 1849 - 432 pages
...with heards that rest on their bosoms ; Loud from its rocky caverns, the ilcep-voicrd neighbouring ocean Speaks< and in accents disconsolate, answers the wail of the forest. This is the forest pnnueval ; but where are the hearts that heneath it Leaped like the roe, when he he«a in the woodland... | |
 | 432 pages
...Speaks, and in accents disconsolate, answers the wail of the forest. This is the forest primaeval ; but where are the hearts that beneath it Leaped like the roe, when he he«n in the woodland the voice of the huntsman ?" " The hearts," in whleh the principal interest centres,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 476 pages
...evening fire repeat Evangeline's story, While from its rocky caverns the deep-voiced, neighbouring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest. THE SEASIDE AND THE FIRESIDE. 1850. DEDICATION. As one who, walking in the twilight gloom, Hears round... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1851 - 1502 pages
...HEXAMETER. § 706. The last line in each verse is a Spondee. The accented lines have five Dactyls. This' is the fo'rest prime'val ; but where' are the hearts' that beneath it Leap'd' like the roe', when it hears' in the wood'land the voice' of the huntsman 1 Where is the thatch-roofed... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...the evening fire repeat Evangeline's story, While from its rocky caverns the deep-voiced neighbouring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest. VOICES OF THE NIGHT. , irlnvia. vi/£, pa "rSov tro\vTt6vtev fipor&v, 'Ayafiffu>6vuiv M S6fnof 6nb... | |
 | Philarète Chasles - 1852 - 334 pages
...sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighboring ocean Speaks,...accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest." THUS does Evangeline, that singular poem by Longfellow, commence. The scene and the actors belong,... | |
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