 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.  The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Page 105by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1880 - 417 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1848 - 152 pages
...town. But here he was exhausted, and died heart-broken and in despair. June, 1848. PART THE FIRST. THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the...harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighbouring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1848 - 176 pages
...sudden and dreadful fate of the Acadians.'' PART THK FIRST. PRELUDE. THIS is the forest primaeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with...harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neigbouring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1849 - 170 pages
...dreadful fate of the Acadians." PART THE FIRST. PKELUDE. THIS is the forest prim»val. The murmur, ing pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in...harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neigbouring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 432 pages
...story of "the forest primaeval," where, " The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with mosi, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight,...harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms ; Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighbouring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate,... | |
 | 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...harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighbouring ocean EVANGELINE. Speaks, and in accents... | |
 | Philarète Chasles - 1852 - 334 pages
...history. CHAPTER VI. EVANGELINE: AN ACADIAN HISTORY. SECTION I. HISTORT OP THE ACADIAN COLONY. u THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the...harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighboring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate... | |
 | Philarète Chasles - 1852 - 334 pages
...history. CHAPTEE VI. EVANGELINE: AN ACADIAN HISTORY. SECTION I. HISTORY OF THE ACADIAN COLONY. " THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the...harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighboring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853 - 470 pages
...shadows fall ; Sleep and oblivion Reign over all. EYANGELINE, A TALE OF ACADIE, 1847. EVANGELINE. THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the...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
...the best of our modern hexameters. Thus Mr. Longfellow's charming poem Evangeline opens:— " This is the forest primeval, the murmuring pines, and the...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... | |
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