 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1878 - 274 pages
...incense-bearing tree ; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. But, O, that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green...fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, Or chaffy grain beucath the thresher's flail : And mid these dancing rocks at once and ever It flung up momently the... | |
 | Arthur Hamilton (novelist.) - 1878 - 298 pages
...smuggler captain. CHAPTER XII. " I passed by the halls of Balclutha, and they were desolate !"—OSSIAN. " A savage place ! as holy and enchanted, As e'er beneath...a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon lover !" COLERIDGE. THERE are bottles upon the table, and pipes are being lit when we introduce... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1878 - 448 pages
...fragment is generally ranked among the finest specimens of purely imaginative poetry in our language. A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted I?v woman wailing for her demon-lover! And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething, As if... | |
 | John Fleming (incumbent of Ventry.) - 1879 - 236 pages
...p. 95. Lord Byron (Heaven and Earth) and Coleridge, who speaks (Kubla Khan, Sybilline Leaves) of — "A savage place, as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath...a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon lover !" — may have believed in, at least, the possibility of such an occurrence as that, which... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1880 - 488 pages
...sunny spots of greenery. But oh! that deep chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a ceilarn cover ! A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e'er...was forced : Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst Hnge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail : And 'mid... | |
 | Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 pages
...ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. [slanted But oh ! that deep romantic chasm which Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover ! A savage...from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething, [breathing, As if this earth in fast thick pants were A mighty fountain momently was forced, Amid whose... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - English poetry - 1880 - 408 pages
...incense-bearing tree ; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. But O! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green...a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon lover! And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething, As if this earth in fast thick pants... | |
 | Mary Rosa Stuart Kettle - 1880 - 426 pages
...present time was all upon which she felt able to depend. CHAPTER XIV. THE CLICK OF THE HAMMER. "But oh ! that deep romantic chasm, which slanted Down the green...a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon lover !" COLERIDGE. MARK had been working very diligently all the morning, under Miss Lockwood's... | |
 | Education - 1925 - 702 pages
...incense-bearing tree ; And there were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. But oh, that deep, romantic chasm which slanted Down the green...athwart a cedarn cover. A savage place, as holy and enchaunted As ever beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover. And from... | |
 | George Henry Calvert - Literary Criticism - 1880 - 316 pages
...heightening of effect by the introduction of humanity into a scene of purely terrene features : " But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover I A savage place ! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted " These lines could... | |
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Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover! A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover! 
