 | 1848 - 780 pages
...to madness Seemed they to follow or guide the revel of frenzied Bacchantes, Then single notes were heard in sorrowful, low lamentation; Till, having...As when, after a storm, a gust of wind through the tieetops Shakes down the rattling rain in a crystal shower on the branches." Where is there a prettier... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1848 - 180 pages
...to madness Seemed they to follow or guide the revel of frenzied Bacchantes. Then single notes were heard, in sorrowful, low lamentation ; Till, having...branches. With such a prelude as this, and hearts that Slowly they entered the Teche, where it flows through the green Opelousas, And through the amber air,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1848 - 538 pages
...to madness Seemed they to follow or guide the revel of frenzied Bacchantes. Then single notes were heard, in sorrowful, low lamentation ; Till, having...rattling rain in a crystal shower on the branches." — pp. 104, 105. We must quote the concluding lines : — " Still stands the forest primeval ; but... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1848 - 182 pages
...to madness Seemed they to follow or guide the revel of frenzied Bacchantes. Then single notes were heard, in sorrowful, low lamentation ; Till, having...As when, after a storm, a gust of wind through the tree- tops Shakes down the rattling rain in a crystal shower on the branches. With such a prelude as... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 476 pages
...were the tones and sad ; then soaring to madness Seemed they to follow or guide the revel of frenzied Bacchantes. Single notes were then heard, in sorrowful,...prelude as this, and hearts that throbbed with emotion, n Slowly they entered the Teche, where it flows through the green Opelousas, And through the amber... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...sad ; then soaring to madness Seemed they to follow or guide the revel of frenzied Bacchantes. ill, having gathered them all, he flung them abroad in...storm, a gust of wind through the tree-tops Shakes uown the rattling rain in a crystal shower on the branches. With such a prelude as this, and hearts... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1854 - 472 pages
...were the tones and sad ; then soaring to madness Seemed they to follow or guide the revel of frenzied Bacchantes. Single notes were then heard, in sorrowful,...prelude as this, and hearts that throbbed with emotion, t Slowly they entered the Teche, where it flows through the green Opelousas, And through the amber... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1854 - 174 pages
...were the tones and sad ; then soaring to madness Seemed they to follow or guide the revel of frenzied Bacchantes. Single notes were then heard, in sorrowful,...branches. With such a prelude as this, and hearts that Slowly they entered the Teche, where it flows through the green Opelousas, And through the amber air,... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1854 - 580 pages
...to madness Seemed they to follow or giiide the revels of frenzied Bacchantes. Then single notes were heard, in sorrowful, low lamentation; Till, having...As when, after a storm, a gust of wind through the tree tops Shakes down the rattling rain in a crystal shower on the branches. With such a prelude äs... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 568 pages
...notes were heard in sorrowful low lamentation ; Till, having gsthered them all, he Sung them abrosd in derision, As when, after a storm, a gust of wind...rattling rain in a crystal shower on the branches." Then again, what a fine illustration of a mystery in human experience does he borrow from the botany... | |
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... the water, Shook from his little throat such floods of delirious music, That the whole air and the woods and the waves seemed silent to listen. Plaintive at first were the tones and sad ; then soaring to madness Seemed they to follow or guide the... 
