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... The Living Age ... - Page 3901849Full view - About this book
 | Percy Holmes Boynton, Howard Mumford Jones, George Sherburn, Frank Martindale Webster - 1918 - 721 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, Howard Mumford Jones, George Sherburn, Frank Martindale Webster - 1918 - 721 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, Howard Mumford Jones, George Sherburn, Frank Martindale Webster - 1918 - 721 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... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1920
...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
...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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1922 - 689 pages
...Coast, and groves of orange and citron, Sweeps witli 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,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1922 - 655 pages
...away to the eastward. They, too, swerved from their course; and entering the Bayou of Plaquemine, Boon were lost in a maze of sluggish and devious waters,...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... | |
 | Edward Clarke Morse - 1943 - 602 pages
...Longfellow in his immortal poem thus describes this very route: "They.. entering the Bayou of Plaquinine, 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,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1988 - 432 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,... | |
 | David Miller - 1989 - 323 pages
...its natural correlative in the swamp, as in, for example, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Evangeline: 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. Deathlike the silence seemed,... | |
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