| Charles Granville Gepp - 1871 - 208 pages
...where; For who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song ? Long, long after, in an oak I found the arrow still unbroke: And the...beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend. Stanza I. 1, 2. Once with-all-my-might (connixus) I shot (line 2) an arrow (calamus) into the air of... | |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1871 - 522 pages
...can follow the flight of song? " bon*, long afterward. In an oak I round the arrow, sd II uobroke ; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend." " Do von know," I said, "that this expresses exactly what a poet wanU t It is not admiration, it is... | |
| William Mackergo Taylor - 1872 - 306 pages
...into Longfellow's delightful lines : I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth I knew not where ; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow...beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend. Many a sweet song of his our brother has already found in the hearts of friends who went before him... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1872 - 730 pages
...Silenus ! THE ARROW AND THE SONG. I SHOT an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where ; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow...still unbroke; And the song, from beginning to end, \ found again in the heart of a friend. THE OLD CLOCK ON THE STAIRS. L'eternite est une pendule, dont... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1872 - 582 pages
...into the air, It fell to earth I knew not where; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It...so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song7 Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow still unbroke; And the song, from beginning... | |
| Amy Campbell - 1873 - 170 pages
...the sight Could not follow in its flight. " I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I know not where; For who has sight so keen and strong, That it can follow the flight of a song? " Long, long afterwards in an oak I found the arrow still unbroke ; And the song from beginning... | |
| John Lawton Owen - 1873 - 248 pages
...number. THE CITY SINGERS. § I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I know not where. *###*• And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend. — LONGFELLOW. f HOUGH through our island floweth song in rivers, Fed by the tributary singing brooks,... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1874 - 384 pages
...forever ! " THE ARROW AND THE SONGL I SHOT an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where ; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow...I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, 1 knew not where ; For who has sight so keen and strong, That it can follow the flight of song ? Long,... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1877 - 634 pages
...SHOT an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where j For, so swiftly it flew, the Right Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song...and strong, ! That it can follow the flight of song ? I Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke ; And the song, from beginning... | |
| William Mackergo Taylor - 1877 - 416 pages
...interpretation of the poet's lyric : " I shot an aif ow info the air : It fell to earth I knew not where ; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. "I breathed (a song^nto the air : It fell to earth I knew(not where ; For who has sight so keen^nd strong That it... | |
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