... music, That the whole air and the woods and the waves seemed silent to listen. Plaintive at first were the tones and sad : then soaring to madness Seemed they to follow or guide the revel of frenzied Bacchantes. Single notes were then heard, in sorrowful,... Poems of Places: America - Page 259edited by - 1879Full view - About this book
| Edmund Clarence Stedman - American poetry - 1900 - 954 pages
...madness, Seemed they to follow or guide the revel of frenzied Bacchantes. Single notes were then heard, in sorrowful, low lamentation; Till, having gathered...branches. With such a prelude as this, and hearts of a cedar. Slowly they entered the Teche, where it flows through the green Opelousas, And, through... | |
| Frances W. Lewis - English language - 1900 - 328 pages
...madness Seemed they to follow or guide the revel of frenzied Bacchantes. Single notes were then heard, in sorrowful, low lamentation ; Till having gathered...rattling rain in a crystal shower on the branches. — LONGFELLOW, Evangeline. Association of Ideas. If you meet a friend on the street, what does the... | |
| Edmund Clarence Stedman - American poetry - 1900 - 966 pages
...madness, Seemed they to follow or guide the revel of frenzied Bacchantes. Single notes were then heard, in ate far up within the Heaven — From grief and groan,...King of Heaven ! Let no bell toll, then, — lest brandies. With such a prelude as this, and hearts of a cedar. 119 And from her eyes and cheeks the... | |
| Edmund Clarence Stedman - Literary Criticism - 1901 - 964 pages
...madness, Seemed they to follow or guide the revel of frenzied Bacchantes. Single notes were then heard, in thee stand, The agate lamp within thy hand ! Ah,...regions which Are Holy Laud I THE RAVEN ONCE upon of a cedar. FIRST LYRICAL PERIOD — DIVISION II Slowly they entered the Teche, where it flows through... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1901 - 484 pages
...madness Seemed they to follow or guide the revel of frenzied Bacchantes. Single notes were then heard, in sorrowful, low lamentation ; Till, having gathered...rattling rain in a crystal shower on the branches. Upon a spray that overhung the stream, The mocking-bird, awaking from his dream, Poured such delirious... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1901 - 472 pages
...madness Seemed they to follow or guide the revel of frenzied Bacchantes. Single notes were then heard, in sorrowful, low lamentation; Till, having gathered...rattling rain in a crystal shower on the branches. Upon a spray that overhung the stream, The mocking-bird, awaking from his dream, Poured such delirious... | |
| Elizabeth Grinnell, Joseph Grinnell - Birds - 1901 - 190 pages
...waves seemed silent to listen. Plaintive at first were the tones, and sad; then soaring to madness, Till having gathered them all, he flung them abroad...storm, a gust of wind through the treetops Shakes down a rattling of rain in a crystal shower on the branches." CHAPTER III THE CAT-BIRD Why, so I will, you... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1901 - 488 pages
...they to follow or guide the 185 Single notes were then heard, in sorrowful, low lamentation ; fill, having gathered them all, he flung them abroad in...storm, a gust of wind through the tree-tops Shakes down ths rattling rain in a crystal shower on the branches. With such a prelude as this, and hearts that... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1902 - 744 pages
...Seemed they to follow or guide the revel of frenzied Bacchantes.1 Single notes were then heard, in sorrowful, low lamentation ; Till, having gathered...shower on the branches. With such a prelude as this, hearts that throbbed with emotion, Slowly they entered the Teche, where it flows through the green... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1893 - 924 pages
...sorrowful, low lamentation; Till, having gathered them all, he tiling them abroad in derision, sx<i As when, after a storm, a gust of wind through the...with emotion, Slowly they entered the Teche, where it Hows through the green Opelousas, And, through the amber air, above the crest of the woodland, Saw... | |
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