| 1847 - 1230 pages
...hill-side bounding, they glided awny o'er the meadow. Oft in the barns they climbed to the populous nests on the rafters, Seeking with eager eyes that wondrous...of the sea to restore the sight of its fledglings." The marriage contract is signed ; the old men discuss the meaning of the order issued by the English... | |
| 1848 - 476 pages
...hill-side bounding, they glided away o'er the meadow. Oft in the barns they climbed to the populous nests on the rafters, Seeking with eager eyes that wondrous...of the sea to restore the sight of its fledglings ; I/ucky was he who found that atone in the nest of the swallow ! Thus passed a few swift years, and... | |
| 1848 - 602 pages
...hill-side bounding, they glided away o'er the meadow. Oft in the barns they climbed to the populous nests on the rafters, Seeking with eager eyes that wondrous...which the swallow Brings from the shore of the sea to teslore the sight of its fledglings; Lucky was he who found that stone in the nest of the swallow!... | |
| 1848 - 832 pages
...hill-side bounding, they glided away o'er the meadow. Oft in the barns they climbed to the populous nests on the rafters, Seeking with eager eyes that wondrous stone, which the swallow Brings from the chore of the sea to restore the sight of its fledglings." The marriage contract is signed ; the old... | |
| 1848 - 812 pages
...that wondrous etooe, which the swallow brings from the shore of the sea :o restore the sight of i is fledglings ; lucky was he who found that stone in the nest of the swallow !" Much as Evangeline has been praised, we ?incerly hope no other American poet will fall into hexameters.... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1849 - 170 pages
...bounding, they glided away o'er the meadow. Oft in the barns they climbed to the populous nests on tne rafters, Seeking with eager eyes that wondrous stone,...from the shore of the sea to restore the sight of its fledgliig* j Lucky was he who found that stone in the nest of the swallow ! Thus passed a few. swift... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...hill-side bounding, they glided away o'er the meadow. Oft in the barns they climbed to the populous nests on the rafters, Seeking with eager eyes that wondrous...Brings from the shore of the sea to restore the sight Lucky was he who found that stone in the nest of the swallow ! Thus passed a few swift years, and they... | |
| 1852 - 672 pages
...the derivation of the name, now corrupted into Cholesbury. W. II. K Swallows' Nests. — " . . . . That wond'rous stone, which the swallow, Brings from the shore of the sea to restore the sigh of its fledglings ; Lucky was he who found that stone in the nest o the swallow 1" Longfellow's... | |
| Ludwig Herrig - 1854 - 580 pages
...hill-side bounding, they glided away o'er the meadow. Oft in the barns tbey climbed to the populous nests on the rafters, Seeking with eager eyes that wondrous...longer were children. He was a valiant youth, and bis facc, like the face of the morning, Gladdened the earth with its light, and ripened thought into... | |
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