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, 1 knew not where ; For who has sight so keen and strong. Elson Grammar School Readers - Page 290by William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1911Full view - About this book
| 1884 - 228 pages
...many days,' but they might see it even now if only hidden places and hearts were unveiled to them. • I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I...flew, the sight • Could not follow it in its flight. ' 1 breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where ; For who has sight so keen and... | |
| 1885 - 898 pages
...lines of Longfellow, which are indeed hackneyed, but which perhaps are not altogether inappropriate ? ' I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I...That it can follow the flight of song ? Long, long, afterwards in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke ; And the song from beginning to end I found... | |
| 1885 - 304 pages
...United States, 1854. The three parodies following are imitations of Longfellow's 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 his flight. 1 breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where ; For who has sight... | |
| Sheldon and Company - 1886 - 208 pages
...CLOTHINGUse the following words in sentences : 97. SELECTION. Write from dictation, or from memory. I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I...earth, I knew not where ; For who has sight so keen an tl strong, That it can follow the flight of song ? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow,... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1887 - 360 pages
...Sayeth this incessantly, — ' ' Forever — never ! Never — forever ! " THE ARROW AND THE SONG. I SHOT an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I...and strong, That it can follow the flight of song y Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke ; And the song, from beginning to... | |
| Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1923 - 1038 pages
...brio. The Great Audience Invisible BY ORANGE EDWARD McMEANS Author of "Eavesdropping on the World" "For who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song?" NEW voice is heard in the land. It comes to join the chorus of those whose mission is . to amuse, instruct,... | |
| National Grange - 1888 - 688 pages
...never lost or forgotten. They are represented in the beautiful words of our own poet, Longfellow : " I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I...song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where ; Who has sight so keen and strong, That it can follow the flight of song ? Long afterwards, in an... | |
| 1888 - 356 pages
...Lonijfelluir, but iiHjstly by another fellow. I knocked a ball into the air, It fell to earth, I know not where; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow in its flight. I dashed to third, across the square, I fell to earth, I know not where, I only know... | |
| John Rogers Rees - 1889 - 290 pages
...WHITMAN. MOST of us know that charming little poem of Longfellow's — The A rrow and the Song : " I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth I knew...That it can follow the flight of song ? " Long, long afterwards, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke ; And the song from beginning to end, I found... | |
| John Rogers Rees - 1889 - 314 pages
...WHITMAN. MOST of us know that charming little poem of Longfellow's — The A rrow and the Song : " I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth I knew...and strong, That it can follow the flight of song ? I " Long, long afterwards, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke ; And the song from beginning... | |
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