 I SHOT an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where ; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where ; For who has sight so keen and strong, That it...  Lessons in language, literature, and composition - Page 93by Henry Pendexter Emerson, Ida Catherine Bender - 1908Full view - About this book
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1864 - 712 pages
...Eternity Sayeth this incessantly, — " Forever — never ! Never — forever ! " THE ARROW AND THE SONG. I SHOT an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I...keen and strong, That it can follow the flight of song ? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke ; And the song, from beginning... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1865 - 388 pages
...hetween us, How its wavelets laugh and glisten In the head of old Silenus ! THE ARROW AND THE SONG. I SHOT an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I...flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I hreathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where ; For who has sight so keen and strong,... | |
 | 1871 - 970 pages
...of Longfellow, ' I shot an arrow through the air ' ? " " What are they ? " she said. I repeated: " I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I...keen and strong, That it can follow the flight of song ? " Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow 6till unbroke ; And the song, from beginning... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1866 - 300 pages
...fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away. FAVORITE POEMS. THE ARROW AND THE SONG. SHOT an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew...keen and strong, That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke ; And the song, from beginning... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1866 - 710 pages
...Eternity Sayeth this incessantly, — " Forever — never ! Never — forever ! " THE AEROW AND THE SONG. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth,...keen and strong, That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke; And the song, from beginning... | |
 | 1866 - 850 pages
...sure of its fruits, but that theharvest will be riper, richer, larger than we expect, " I .«hot au arrow into the air, It fell to earth ; I knew not...swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its night. I breathed a son;,' into the air, It fell to earth ; I knew not where ; For who has sight so... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1867 - 482 pages
...glisten In the head of old Silenus ! THE ARROW AND THE SONG. I SHOT an arrow into the air, It fell tu earth, I knew not where; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where ; For who has sight... | |
 | Camilla Jenkin - 1868 - 308 pages
...dear boy, Fred, left me. Oh, what a voice his was 1" sighed the mother. "THE ARROW AND THE SONG. " I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I...swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its night " I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where ; For who has sight so keen... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1868 - 410 pages
...between us, How its wavelets laugh and glisten In the head of old Silenus! THE ARROW AND THE SONG. I SHOT an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where ; For, so swiftly it dew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth,... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1868 - 750 pages
...manner, our words behind us. Sometimes we find them again after many days, as sings Longfellow:— " I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; Long, long afterwards, in an oak, I found the arrow yet unbroke," And there, too, as he suggests, we... | |
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