 THIS is the forest primeval. 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.  Evangeline: a tale [in verse]. - Page 7by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1849Full view - About this book
 | Maritime provinces - 1875 - 412 pages
...the first winter of their abandonment." (HALIBURTON.) " This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in...bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighboring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest. " This is the... | |
 | Moses Foster Sweetser - 1875 - 366 pages
...the first winter of their abandonment." (HAÍIBÜRTON.) " This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in...bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighboring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest. " This is the... | |
 | james r. osgood and company - 1875 - 382 pages
...the first winter of their abandonment." (HALIBURTON.) " Thig is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in...bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighboring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest. " This is the... | |
 | 1875 - 466 pages
...have selected four lines at the opening of Evangelinc. — "This is the forest primeval, The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, "Bearded with moss, and in...harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms." The meter is dactylic hexameter. This requires a dactyl in the fifth place, and a spondee in the sixth;... | |
 | Samuel Adams Drake - 1875 - 464 pages
...hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and with garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of Old, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers...bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns the deep-voiced neighboring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest." LONGFELLOW.... | |
 | F. Taverner Graham - 1874 - 224 pages
...hemlocks Bearded with moss, and with garments green, indistinct in the twilight Stand [like druids of old, with voices sad and prophetic!, Stand [like harpers...bosoms!, Loud from its rocky caverns the deep-voiced neighboring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest. * * * * Men whose... | |
 | Samuel Adams Drake - 1875 - 480 pages
...Bearded with moss, and' with garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of Old, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers...bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns the deep-voiced neighboring oceiin Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest." LONGFELLOW.... | |
 | Samuel Adams Drake - 1875 - 482 pages
...hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and with 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 bosom9. Loud from its rocky caverns the deep-voiced neighboring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate... | |
 | Samuel Adams Drake - 1875 - 478 pages
...in the twilight, Stand like Druids of Old, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hour, with beards that rest on their bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns the deep-voiced neighboring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest." LONGFELLOW.... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1876 - 599 pages
...PRIMEVAL FOREST. FROM THE INTRODUCTION TO " EVANGELINE." THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in...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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