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 3901849Full view - About this book
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1887 - 360 pages
...from their course; and, entering tlie Bayou ot Plaquemiue, Soon were lost in a maze of sluggish aud devious waters, Which, like a network of steel, extended...cypress Met in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in midyear of existence ; But as a traveller follows a streamlet's course through the valley : Far from... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1888 - 476 pages
...golden stream of the broad and swift Mississippi. Day after day they glided adown the turbulent river. Over their heads the towering and tenebrous boughs...cypress Met in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in mid-air Waved like banners hung on the walls of ancient cathedrals. Then in his place, at the prow... | |
 | Larkin Dunton - 1890 - 228 pages
...the main stream. When Evangeline and the people with her rowed out upon one of these bayous, — " Over their heads the towering and tenebrous boughs...cypress Met in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in mid-air Waved like banners that hang on the walls of ancient cathedrals. Lovely the moonlight was,... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - 1892 - 474 pages
...Coast, and groves of orange and citron, Sweeps with majestic curve the river away to the eastward. 768 They, too, swerved from their course ; and, entering...cypress Met in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in midair 770 Waved like banners that hang on the walls of ancient cathedrals. Deathlike the silence seemed,... | |
 | Paolo Mantegazza - 1892 - 520 pages
...living cypress glooms, And withers not, though branch and leaf Are stamp'd with an eternal grief. Byron. Over their heads the towering and tenebrous boughs...Met in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in mid air Wawed like banners that hang on the walls of ancient cathedrals. Longfellow. Au milieu, deux cyprès... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1893 - 214 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 midair Waved like banners that hang on the walls of ancient cathedrals. Deathlike the silence seemed,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1893 - 234 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...like a network of steel, extended in every direction. Day after day they glided adown the turbulent river J THT. KKW YORK PUBLIC LIBEAEY Over their heads... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1893 - 242 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, 9o And o'er their spirits there came a feeling of wonder and sadness, — Strange forebodings of ill,... | |
 | 1894 - 1178 pages
...eyes and, leaning back in her chair with hands folded upon the open book, murmured half inaudibly : " Over their heads the towering and tenebrous boughs...cypress Met in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in mid-air Waved like banuers that hang on the walls of ancient cathedrals. Death-like the silence reigned,... | |
 | Minna Caroline Smith - 1894 - 230 pages
...from the main stream. When Evangeline and the people with her rowed out upon one of these bayous, — "Over their heads the towering and tenebrous boughs...cypress Met in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in mid-air Waved like banners that hang on the walls of ancient cathedrals. Lovely the moonlight was,... | |
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