 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 - 1897 - 380 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, AVhich, like a network of steel, extended in every direction. Over their heads the towering and tenebrous... | |
 | Calvin Patterson - 1897 - 204 pages
...brous lithe rus' tic ca the' drals an' cient se' crets la' dy like mys' ter y Pa' tience mur' mur ing 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. — Longfellow. The Birch,... | |
 | William H. Chenery - 1898 - 466 pages
...is intersected, that I quote it in this connection : 'They . . . entering the Bayou of Plaquemine2 Soon were lost in a maze of sluggish and devious waters,...heads the towering and tenebrous boughs of the cypress Waved like banners that hang on the walls of ancient cathedrals. Deathlike the silence seemed, and... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1901 - 472 pages
...curve the river away to the eastward. They, too, swerved from their course ' and, entering the Bayou 0, Plaquemine, Soon were lost in a maze of sluggish and...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,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1901 - 488 pages
...the river away to the eastward. They, too, swerved from their course -| and, entering the Bayou 01 Plaquemine, Soon were lost in a maze of sluggish and...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,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1901 - 484 pages
...the river away to the eastward. They, too, swerved from their course • and, entering the Bayou 01 Plaquemine, Soon were lost in a maze of sluggish and...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,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Henry Ketcham - 1901 - 380 pages
...away to the eastward. They, too, swerved from their course ; and, entering the Bayou of Plaquemine,1 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,... | |
 | Fannie Hardy Eckstorm - 1901 - 360 pages
...less fortunate than ours have foundered and sunk with all on board." A CYPRESS SWAMP. THE ANHINGA. " Over their heads the towering and tenebrous boughs of the cypress Met in a dusky arch, and the trailing mosses in mid-air Waved like banners that hang on the walls of ancient cathedrals. Deathlike... | |
 | Fannie Hardy Eckstorm - 1901 - 356 pages
...less fortunate than ours have foundered and sunk with all on board." A CYPEESS SWAMP. THE ANHINGA. "Over their heads the towering and tenebrous boughs of the cypress Met in a dusky arch, and the trailing mosses in mid-air Waved like banners that hang on the walls of ancient cathedrals. Deathlike... | |
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