| Charles Granville Gepp - English poetry - 1830 - 194 pages
...ultima) on me as I smiled (part.) ne'er again to be beheld by my eyes. EXERCISE XCVI. (Longfellow). 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 in its flight. I breathed a song into the air... | |
| Literature - 1859 - 868 pages
...this condition. His works furnish several examples, but wu täte the following as the shortest : — " 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 it in its flight. " I breathed a song into the... | |
| American literature - 1846 - 302 pages
...for any fate ; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. 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 it in its flight. I breathed a song into the... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Literary Criticism - 1846 - 178 pages
...Eternity Sayeth this incessantly, — " Forever — never ! Never — forever ! " 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 it in its flight. I breathed a song into the... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1848 - 128 pages
...Eternity Sayeth this incessantly, — " For ever — never ! Never — for ever!" 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 it in its flight. I breathed a song into the... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 462 pages
...Sayeth this incessantly, — " For ever — never ! Never — for ever !" 33? 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 it in its flight. I breathed a song into the... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1850 - 476 pages
...Eternity Sayeth this incessantly, — " Forever — never ! Never — forever ! " 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 it in its flight. I breathed a song into the... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...Eternity Sayeth this incessantly, — "For ever — never ! Never — for ever!" 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 it in its flight. I breathed a song into the... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...adumbration, Of the great world of light that lies Beyond all human destinies ! 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 Conld not follow in its flight. I breathed a song into the air.... | |
| University magazine - 1852 - 790 pages
...Longfellow's, which shu tells us is a favourite of Mrs. Barrett Browning's:— "ТПВ ARROW AND THE SOKG. " ' 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 in its flight. " ' I breathed a song into the... | |
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