 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.  The poetical works of H.W. Longfellow - Page 7by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855Full view - About this book
 | Hugh Macmillan - 1874 - 464 pages
...hemlocks, 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." We are more indebted to the humble lichens for the charming romance of our sylvan scenery than we imagine... | |
 | Alexander Bathgate - 1874 - 320 pages
...before he has penetrated many yards he finds himself repeating the opening lines of Evangeline : — "This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss and with garments green, indistinct iu the twilight, Stand like druids of old, with voices sad and prophetic,... | |
 | Henry Roe (missionary.) - 1874 - 260 pages
...eventide, wearied and lone, they Lave seemed to talk with me as the pines talked to Longfellow, — <~ 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."... | |
 | Moses Foster Sweetser - 1875 - 366 pages
...cattle that had survived the severity of the first winter of their abandonment." (HAÍIBÜRTON.) " This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and...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... | |
 | Maritime provinces - 1875 - 412 pages
...the cattle that had survived the severity of the first winter of their abandonment." (HALIBURTON.) " This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and...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
...cattle that had survived the severity of the first winter of their abandonment." (HALIBURTON.) " Thig is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the...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
...jDhilological examination of the text, I have selected four lines at the opening of Evangelinc. — "This is the forest primeval, The murmuring pines...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;... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1875 - 108 pages
...District Court of the District of Massachusetts. UNIVERSITY PRESS: WE/,CH, BIGELOW, & Co., EVANGELINE THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and,...hemlocks, ^ .bearded with moss, and in garments green, indis, tinct in the twilight, / Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, , , x Stand... | |
 | Samuel Adams Drake - 1875 - 464 pages
...Moss-grown Memorial 446 Tail-piece 449 THE NEW ENGLAND COAST. CHAPTER L NEW ENGLAND OF THE ANCIENTS. "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 Old, with voices sad and prophetic,... | |
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