 | English literature - 1853 - 604 pages
...measure of the best of our modern hexameters. Thus Mr. Longfellow's charming poem Evangeline opens:— " This is the forest primeval, the murmuring pines,...and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight." In the second line we have already an instance, garments, of a dissyllable foot inserted among the... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1854 - 174 pages
...CAMBRIDGE: METCALF AND COMPAST , PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY. PART THE FIRST. •*> 09 LU EVANGELINE. THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and...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... | |
 | Harry Penciller - American fiction - 1854 - 304 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...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... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - American literature - 1854 - 580 pages
...SPECIMENS. P 0 ET S. HENRY WÄD8WOBTH LONGFELLOW. Born 1807. EVANGELINE. A Tale of Acadie. PART THE FIRST. THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and...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... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - Country life - 1854 - 482 pages
...Blighted love shall never blow ! Tranelated by VISCOCXT STEASGFOBD. Ltm DE CAUSE™, 1B24-1579. 9 XII. THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and...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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Acadians - 1854 - 124 pages
...Maidens still wear their Norman caps and their kirtles of homespun, repeated EVANGELINE. PART THE FIRST THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garment green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic,... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - Country life - 1855 - 510 pages
...! Tran»lated)iy VISCOUNT STEANOFOED. Luis DE CAMOENS, 1524-1579. 0 XII. Jfnmt. FROM " EVANOELINE." THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and...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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 568 pages
...Poem is descriptive of these proceedings. Some of the characters are real personages.] EVANGELINE. THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and...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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 264 pages
...... ... ... ... ... 243 NOTES ... ... ... ... ... .,. .. 2U LONGFELLOW'S POEMS. EVAHGELlNE. . Cale THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and...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... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - Country life - 1855 - 478 pages
...Jtorist. rnOH " EVANQELINE." T^HIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks. JL Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of old, with voices sad and prophetie, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their... | |
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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. 
