 BESIDE the ungathered rice he lay, His sickle in his hand; His breast was bare, his matted hair Was buried in the sand. Again, in the mist and shadow of sleep, He saw his Native Land.  Poems - Page 277by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853Full view - About this book
 | 1831 - 492 pages
...SLAVE'S DREAM. Beside th'ungathered rice he lay, His sickle in his hand ; His breast was bare, hia matted hair Was buried in the sand. Again in the mist...strode ; And heard the tinkling caravans Descend the mountain road. He saw, once more, his dark-eyed queen Among her children stand ; They clasped his neck,... | |
 | Charles Granville Gepp - 1830 - 194 pages
...LIV. 6, 8, note. Observe the apposition in line 2. EXERCISE LVII I. (Longfellow). His breast was bare, his matted hair Was buried in the sand. Again, in the mist and shadow of sleep, 5 He saw his native land. 1, 2. The slave rested stretched beside (ad) the unfathered (intonsus) rice:... | |
 | 1843 - 574 pages
...The Slave's Dream." Beside the ungathered rice he lay, His sickle in his hand ; His breast was bare, his matted hair Was buried in the sand. Again, in...tinkling caravans Descend the mountain-road. He saw mice more his dark-eyed-queen Among her children stand ; They clasped his neck, they kissed his cheeks,... | |
 | Jane Thomas (née Pinhorn) - 1850 - 300 pages
...ungathered rice he lay, With sickle in his hand ; His hreast was hare — his matted hair Was huried in the sand. Again, in the mist and shadow of sleep,...his dreams, The lordly Niger flowed ; Beneath the palm trees on the plain Once more a king he strode ; And heard the tinkling caravans Descend the mountain... | |
 | 1846 - 308 pages
...HENRY W. LONGFELLOW. Beside the ungathered rice he lay, His sickle in his hand : His breast was bare, his matted hair Was buried in the sand. Again, in...strode ; And heard the tinkling caravans Descend the mountain road. He saw once more his dark eyed-queen Among her children stand ; They clasped his neck,... | |
 | 1846 - 302 pages
...HENRT W. LONGFRLLOW. Beside the ungathered rice he lay, His sickle in his hand ; His breast was bare, his matted hair Was buried in the sand. Again, in...; Beneath the palm-trees on the plain Once more a kin; he strode ; And heard the tinkling caravans Descend the mountain road. He saw once more his dark... | |
 | 1849 - 274 pages
...THE SLAVE'S DREAM. BESIDE tho ungathered rice he lay, His sickle in his hand ; His breast was bare, his matted hair Was buried in the sand. Again, in...The lordly Niger flowed : Beneath the palm-trees on tho plain Once more a king he strode ; And heard the tinkling caravans Descend the mountain-road. He... | |
 | 1851 - 724 pages
...so amiable a writer. genuine spirit in some of the stanzas, as, for instante, the following : — " Wide through the landscape of his dreams, The lordly Niger flowed ; Beneath the palm- trete on the plain, Once more a king he strode, And heard the tinkling caravans Descend the mountain... | |
 | 1851 - 1220 pages
...is, however, much of genuine spirit in some of the stanzas, as, for instance, the following : — 14 Wide through the landscape of his dreams. The lordly Niger flowed; Beneath (he palm-trees on the plain, Once more a king he strode, And heard the tinkling caravans Descend the... | |
 | Edward Rupert Humphreys - 1852 - 190 pages
...DKEAM.* BY LONGFELLOW. BESIDE the ungathered rice he lay, His sickle in his hand ; His breast was bare, his matted hair Was buried in the sand : Again, in...strode — And heard the tinkling caravans Descend the mountain road. He saw, once more, his dark-eyed queen Among her children stand ; They clasped his neck,... | |
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