 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 Acadia - Page 5by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1878 - 95 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1848 - 182 pages
...CAMBRIDGE: STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY METCALF AND COMPANY, PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY. PART THE FIRST. CO THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and...bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighbouring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest. This is the... | |
 | 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...bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neigbouring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest. This is the forest... | |
 | 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...bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neigbouring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest. 8 EVANGELBS'E.... | |
 | 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,...bosoms ; Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighbouring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate, answers the wail of the forest. This is the... | |
 | 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...bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighbouring ocean EVANGELINE. Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest.... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...SEA HATH ITS PEARLS 542 POETIC APHORISMS 543 NOTES . . 547 EVANGELINE, A TALE OF ACADIE. EVANGELINE. THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and...bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighbouring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest. This is the... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1854 - 472 pages
...shadows fall ; Sleep and oblivion Reign over all. EVANGELINE, A TALE OF AC A DIE, 1847. EVANGELINE. THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and...bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighbouring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest. This is the... | |
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