 THIS 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 bosoms.  Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie - Page 5by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1848 - 163 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Eliza Cook - 1849 - 432 pages
...which it serves to embody. "Evangeline" is a story of "the forest primaeval," where, " The mnrmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in...sad and prophetic ; Stand like harpers hoar, with heards that rest on their bosoms ; Loud from its rocky caverns, the ilcep-voicrd neighbouring ocean... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 476 pages
...all. EYANGELINE, A TALE OF ACADIE, 1847. EVANGELINE. THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pmes and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments...rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighbouring ocean EVANGELINE. Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest. This is the forest... | |
 | Philarète Chasles - 1852 - 334 pages
...no history. CHAPTER VI. EVANGELINE: AN ACADIAN HISTORY. SECTION I. HISTORT OP THE ACADIAN COLONY. u THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and...bosoms Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighboring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest." THUS does Evangeline,... | |
 | Philarète Chasles - 1852 - 334 pages
...no history. CHAPTEE VI. EVANGELINE: AN ACADIAN HISTORY. SECTION I. HISTORY OF THE ACADIAN COLONY. " THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and...bosoms Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighboring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest." THUS does Evangeline,... | |
 | Philarete Chasles - 1852 - 324 pages
...history. CHAPTER VI. EVAXGKLLXK: AN ACADIAN HISTORY. SECTION I. HISTORY OF THE ACADIAN COLONY. l ' : Tiiis is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the...bosoms Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighboring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest.'* THUS does Evangeline,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853 - 470 pages
...black shadows fall ; Sleep and oblivion Reign over all. EYANGELINE, A TALE OF ACADIE, 1847. EVANGELINE. THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and...voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with heards that rest on their bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighbouring ocean Speaks,... | |
 | 1853 - 604 pages
...measure of the best of our modern hexameters. Thus Mr. Longfellow's charming poem Evangeline opens:— " This is the forest primeval, the murmuring pines,...and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight." In the second line we have already an instance, garments, of a dissyllable foot inserted among the... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1854 - 580 pages
...ABTHEILUNG. SELECT SPECIMENS. P 0 ET S. HENRY WÄD8WOBTH LONGFELLOW. Born 1807. EVANGELINE. A Tale of Acadie. PART THE FIRST. THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring...green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of old, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms.... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1854 - 482 pages
...Blighted love shall never blow ! Tranelated by VISCOCXT STEASGFOBD. Ltm DE CAUSE™, 1B24-1579. 9 XII. THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and...green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of old, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosom?.... | |
 | Harry Penciller - 1854 - 304 pages
...upon the forest surrounding us, dark and dim, these stanzas from Evangeline came into my memory — " This is the forest primeval ; the murmuring pines...green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of old, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar with beards that rest on their bosoms."... | |
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