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" 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 air, It fell to earth, I knew not where ; For who has sight so keen and strong, That it... "
Language Lessons - Page 117
by James Witt Sewell - 1903 - 160 pages
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 60

Literature - 1859 - 868 pages
...can follow the flight of song ! " Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still nnbroke ; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend." Every one feels that this is merely a conscious and cold-blooded following out of some analogy between...
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The Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Literary Criticism - 1846 - 178 pages
...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 air, It fell to earth,...beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend. SONNETS. THE EVENING STAR. Lo ! in the painted oriel of the West, Whose panes the sunken sun incarnadines,...
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Voices of the True-hearted

American literature - 1846 - 308 pages
...to earth, I knew not where ; For, so swiftly it flew, the tight Could not follow it in its flight. 1 breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I...beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend. VOICES OF THE T RUE- HE A RTE D. ENDYMION. The rising moon has hid the stars ; Her level rays, like...
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Poems on slavery, early poems, additional poems, and ballads

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1848 - 128 pages
...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 air, It fell to earth,...beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend. THE EVENING STAR. Lo ! in the painted oriel of the West, Whose panes the sunken sun incarnadines, Like...
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Poems, Volume 2

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1850 - 476 pages
...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 air, It fell to earth,...beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend. SONNETS. THE EVENING STAR. Lo ! in the painted oriel of the West, Whose panes the sunken sun incarnadines,...
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The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...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 air, It fell to earth,...beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend. SONNETS. THE EVENING STAR. Lo ! in the painted oriel of the West, Whose panes the sunken sun incarnadines,...
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Voices of the Night, and Other Poems

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1852 - 258 pages
...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 air, It fell to earth,...beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend. SONNETS. AUTUMN, TlIOU comcst, Autumn, heralded by the rain, With banners, by great gales incessant...
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Recollections of a Literary Life, Or, Books, Places and People

Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 588 pages
...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 fell to earth I...unbroke; And the song, from beginning to end, I found it again in the heart of a friend. I venture to add an anecdote new to the English public. Professor...
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The Monthly Christian Spectator. 1851-1859

Religion - 1852 - 784 pages
...the sight Could not follow it in its night. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I know not where, For who has sight so keen and strong, That...beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend." The other piece is ' Blind Bartimeus.' Children are good judges in general of what is beautiful, and...
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The Dublin university magazine

University magazine - 1852 - 790 pages
...who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song 7 " ' Long, long afterwards, in an oak I found the arrow still unbroke ; And the...beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.' " I venture to add an anecdote new to the English public. " Proft ssor Longfellow's residence at Cambridge,...
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