 | 1913 - 760 pages
...with eager eyes that wondrous stone, which the swallow Brings from the shore of the sea to restore the sight of its fledglings. Lucky was he who found that stone in the nest of the swallow. See Preface for a brief discussion of the above. For the myth of Tereus, Philomela and Progne vid.... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1914 - 52 pages
...with eager eyes that wondrous stone, which the swallow Brings from the shore of the sea to restore the sight of its fledglings ; Lucky was he who found...few swift years, and they no longer were children. HO He was a valiant youth, and his face, like the face of the morning, Gladdened the earth with its... | |
 | Ernest Whitney Martin - 1914 - 272 pages
...with eager eyes that wondrous stone, which the swallow Brings from the shore of the sea to restore the sight of its fledglings. Lucky was he who found that stone in the nest of the swallow. For the myth of Tereus, Philomela and Progne vid. sv LUSCINIA, Note IV, RUSCINIA. Say now, thou twit'ring... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1914 - 734 pages
...the United .States next to Acailia, and in the compound Paesamaquoddy, or Pollock-Ground.] Page 74. Lucky was he who found that stone in the nest of the ¡wallon: ["If the eyes of one of the young of a swallow be put out, the mother bird will bring from... | |
 | 1915 - 316 pages
...with eager eyes that wondrous stone, which the swallow Brings from the shore of the sea to restore the sight of its fledglings Lucky was he who found...few swift years, and they no longer were children. 140 He was a valiant youth, and his face, like the face of the morning, Gladdened the earth with its... | |
 | Charles Henshaw Ward - 1918 - 128 pages
...Shackleton, who holds the Antarctic record for furthest South, expressed himself unequivocally. 3. Lucky was he who found that stone in the nest of the swallow. 4. Then it was that there came into my head the first of the mad notions that contributed so much to... | |
 | William Harris Elson - 1921 - 552 pages
...Seeking with eager eyes that wondrous stone which the swallow Brings from the shore of the sea to restore the sight of its fledglings, Lucky was he who found...youth ; and his face, like the face of the morning, 10 Gladdened the earth with its light, and ripened thought into action. She was a woman now, with the... | |
 | Longfellow - 1922 - 722 pages
...with eager eyes that wondrous stone, which the swallow Brings from the shore of the sea to restore the sight of its fledglings; Lucky was he who found...the swallow! Thus passed a few swift years, and they us longer were children. He was a valiant youth, and his face, like the face of the morning, Gladdened... | |
 | Dwight Edwards Marvin - 1922 - 362 pages
...with eager eyes that wondrous stone, which the swallow Brings from the shore of the sea to restore the sight of its fledglings; Lucky was he who found that stone in the nest of the swallow." HENRY W. LONGFELLOW, AD 1807-1882, Evangeline. There is an old Norwegian tradition that the swallow... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1922 - 726 pages
...of the United States next to Acadia, and in the compound Passamaquoddy, or Pollock-Ground.] Page 74. Lucky was he who found that stone in the nest of the swallow. [" If the eyes of one of the young of a swallow be put out, the mother bird will bring from the sea-shore... | |
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Oft in the barns they climbed to the populous nests on the rafters, Seeking with eager eyes that wondrous stone, which the swallow Brings from the shore of the sea to restore the sight of its fledglings ; Lucky was he who found that stone in the nest... 
