 | Sheldon and Company - 1886 - 208 pages
...breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where ; For who has sight so keen an tl strong, That it can follow the flight of song ? Long,...beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend. —Lmgfettow. •e&l'i -eo s6cks thread lln'en shawl miig'lin •eam 'brie s-earf tow'el§ flan'nelg... | |
 | Eric Sutherland Robertson - 1887 - 204 pages
...cavil. The mingling of lyric with epigram somewhat recalls the happiest efforts of Walter Savage Landor. THE ARROW AND THE SONG. I SHOT an arrow into the air,...beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend. These lines were composed while Longfellow was strolling through " Norton's Woods " at Cambridge. "... | |
 | National Conference on Social Welfare - 1888 - 508 pages
...abundance as everlasting as human need, with a succession as enduring as the generations of men. " I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I...beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend." Bad as is this world, it is good enough to transmute and to hold immortality within it. The beauty... | |
 | 1901 - 778 pages
...his friends look upon him as the guiding star to their lives. Longfellow beautifully pictured this in the "Arrow and the Song." "I shot an arrow Into the...beginning to end, I found again In the heart of a friend." Not only are we responsible for the tendency of our influence, but the strength of character which... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1889 - 254 pages
...1889, By HOUGHTON, MlFFLIN & Co. All rights reserved. THE ARROW AND THE SONG. I shot an arrow into tie air, It fell to earth, I knew not where ; For, so...song, from beginning to end, I found again in the beart of a friend. CONTENTS BALLADS AND LYRICS The Skeleton in Armor 9 The Wreck of the Hesperus 16... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1889 - 264 pages
...Arabs, And as silently steal away. THE ARROW AND THE SONG. I SHOT an arrow into the air, It fell to the earth, I knew not where ; For, so swiftly it flew,...beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend. WALTER VON DER VOGELWEID. [WALTER VON DER VOGELWEID, or BIRD-MEADOW, was one of the principal Minnesingers... | |
 | George Dana Boardman - 1889 - 396 pages
...are immortal. HW Long- I shot an arrow into air, reUow' It fell to earth, I knew not where ; For, «o swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in...afterward, in an oak, I found the arrow still unbroke ; And all the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend. You think that the phonograph... | |
 | William James Linton, Richard Henry Stoddard - 1890 - 404 pages
...LONGFELLOW. 1807 — 1882. THE ARROW AND THE SONG. I shot an arrow into the air ; It fell to earth, 1 knew not where : For, so swiftly it flew, the sight...to end, I found again in the heart of a friend. THE LIGHT OF STARS. The night is come, but not too soon ; And sinking silently, All silently, the little... | |
 | Carl Theodor Eben - 1890 - 530 pages
...(I>rot|t) the neck (netf) the breast (bre^t) the bow'els (baue(ê) the disease' (bifieíja) ! — 143 — Long, long afterward in an oak I found the arrow,...beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend. HW Longfellow. Ar' tow (Srrolj), 43ffit. — Song (fcônp), £ieb, fflffung. — Shot (ftf)ott). $rat.... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1891 - 800 pages
...he horologe of Eternity ayeth this incessantly, — ' ' For ever — never ! Never — for ever 1 " THE ARROW AND THE SONG. I SHOT an arrow into the air,...beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend. SONNETS. THE EVENING STAR. Lo ! in the painted oriel of the West, Whose panes the sunken sun incarnadines... | |
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THE ARROW AND THE SONG. 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... 
