 The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms.  Bulletin - Page 121904Full view - About this book
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1856 - 432 pages
...persons involved in these calamitous proceedings.] THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pineB and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments...bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighbouring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest. This is the... | |
 | Harry Penciller - 1856 - 296 pages
...upon the forest surrounding us, dark and dim, these stanzas from Evangeline came into my memory — "This is the forest primeval; the murmuring pines...green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of old, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar with beards that rest on their bosoms."... | |
 | 1856 - 482 pages
...!:,;•'. 9 XII. f fee |0rtst. TIHIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, _L Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight. Stand like Druids of old, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms.... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1857 - 428 pages
...The poem is descriptive of the fate of some of the persons involved in these calamitous proceedings.] THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and...harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms. Lond from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighbouring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1857 - 738 pages
...Patricians,' these are Patriarchs. • ' THE murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bairded with rnoxe, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of old, with voices sad and prophetic, titand like harjxrt Jioar with btard» tiiat, rat on their bosoms'... | |
 | Philip Kelland - 1858 - 140 pages
...to enter fully into the spirit of the beautiful lines with which Longfellow opens his poem : — " This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and...bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighbouring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest." ST. JOHN, NEW... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1858 - 710 pages
...noble opening hexameters of LONGFELLOW, to — not 'plain,' but most exquisitely poetical prose : 'Tnis is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, bearded with moss, and in garments £reen, indistinct in the twilight, stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic ; stand... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1858 - 136 pages
...that give us the pine forests of Maine like a painting : % - •• • LETTEK FROM MAV, Jt » lOl " This is the forest primeval — the murmuring pines and the hemlocks Bearded with moss and with garments green, indistinct in the twilight Stand like Druids of Eld, with voices sad and prophetic,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1859 - 724 pages
...The poem is descriptive of the fate of aome of the persons involved in these calamitous proceedings. THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and...green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of old, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms... | |
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