 Soon were lost in a maze of sluggish and devious waters, Which, like a network of steel, extended in every direction. Over their heads the towering and tenebrous boughs of the cypress Met in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in mid-air Waved like banners...  Littell's Living Age - Page 3801849Full view - About this book
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1914 - 52 pages
...approaching the region where reigns perpetual Sweeps with majestic curve the river away to the eastward. 765 They, too, swerved from their course ; and, entering...cypress Met in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in mid-air 770 Waved like banners that hang on the walls of ancient cathedrals. Deathlike the silence... | |
 | Mary Edwards Calhoun, Emma Lenore MacAlarney - 1915 - 670 pages
...Coast, and groves of orange and citron, Sweeps with majestic curve the river away to the eastward. They, too, swerved from their course ; and, entering...cypress Met in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in mid-air Waved like banners that hang on the walls of ancient cathedrals. Deathlike the silence seemed,... | |
 | 1915 - 316 pages
...Coast, and groves of orange and citron, 765 Sweeps with majestic curve the river away to the eastward, They, too, swerved from their course; and, entering...heads the towering and tenebrous boughs of the cypress 770 Met in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in mid-air Waved like banners that hang on the walls of... | |
 | 1915 - 398 pages
...(1) "Cotton trees nodded their shadowy crests." (2) "Along the wimpling waves of their margin." (3) "A maze of sluggish and devious waters, which, like...a network of steel, extended in every direction." (4) "Trailing mosses in mid-air — Waved like banners that hang on the walls of ancient cathedrals."... | |
 | Percy Holmes Boynton, Howard Mumford Jones, George Sherburn, Frank Martindale Webster - 1918 - 748 pages
...citron, Sweeps with majestic curve the river away to the eastward. They, too, swerved from their courso ; and entering the Bayou of Plaquemine, Soon were lost...cypress Met in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in mid-air y> Waved like banners that hang on the walls of ancient cathedrals. Deathlike the silence seemed,... | |
 | Percy Holmes Boynton - 1918 - 750 pages
...entering the Bayou of Plaquemine, Soon were lost in a maze of sluggish and devious waters, AMERICAN POETRY Which, like a network of steel, extended in every...cypress Met in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in mid-air 30 Waved like banners that hang on the walls of ancient cathedrals. Deathlike the silence seemed,... | |
 | Percy Holmes Boynton - 1918 - 746 pages
...Coast, and groves of orange and citron, Sweeps with majestic curve the river away to the eastward. They, too, swerved from their course; and entering...were lost in a maze of sluggish and devious waters, AMERICAN POETRY Which, like a network of steel, extended in every direction. Over their heads the towering... | |
 | Harry Lyman Koopman - 1919 - 646 pages
...away to the eastward. They, too, swerved from their course ; and, entering the Bayou of Plaquemlne, Soon were lost in a maze of sluggish and devious waters,...cypress Met in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in mid-air Waved like banners that hang on the walls of ancient cathedrals. Deathlike the silence seemed,... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1920 - 668 pages
...Coast, and groves of orange and citron, SB Sweeps with majestic curve the river away to the eastward. They, too. swerved from their course; and, entering...heads the towering and tenebrous boughs of the cypress zo Met in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in mid-air Waved like banners that hang on the walls of... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck, Lura E. Runkel - 1921 - 680 pages
...Coast, and groves of orange and citron, Sweeps with majestic curve the river away to the eastward. They, too, swerved from their course; and, entering the Bayou of Plaquemine, 10 Soon were lost in a maze of sluggish and devious waters, Which, like a network of steel, extended... | |
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