 | 1886 - 638 σελίδες
...the whole air and the woods and the waves seemed silent to listen. Plaintive at first were the notes and sad ; then soaring to madness Seemed they to follow or guide the revel of frenzied Bacchantes, Then single notes were heard, in sorrowful, low lamentation ; Till, having gathered them all, he flung... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1887 - 514 σελίδες
...such floods of delirious 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...rattling rain in a crystal shower on the branches. Smngeline, ii. 2. It is not, however, in descriptive passages like this that the superiority of the... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - 1887 - 270 σελίδες
...such floods of delirious 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...down the rattling rain in a crystal shower on the tranches." The limitations of the rhymed pentameter are clearly seen in a comparison of the two forms,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1887 - 360 σελίδες
...dclirioua music. That the whole uir and the woods and the waves seemed silent to listen. Plaintive at Hrst were the tones and sad ; then soaring to madness Seemed...or guide the revel of frenzied Bacchantes. Single not?s \vere then heard, in sorrowful, low lamentation ; Fill, having gathered them all, he flung them... | |
 | W. Proudfoot Begg - 1887 - 424 σελίδες
...the whole air and the woods and the waves seemed silent to listen. Plaintive at first were the notes and sad ; then soaring to madness Seemed they to follow or guide the revels of frenzied Bacchantes. Single notes were then heard, in sorrowful, low lamentation ; Till,... | |
 | New Zealand Institute - 1889 - 666 σελίδες
...the whole air and the woods and the waves seemed silent to listen. Plaintive at first were the notes and sad ; then soaring to madness Seemed they to follow...heard, in sorrowful, low lamentation ; Till, having leathered them all, ho Hung them abroad in derision, As when, after a storm, a gust of wind through... | |
 | New Zealand Institute - 1889 - 676 σελίδες
...waves seemed silent to listen. Plaintive at first were the notes and sad ; then soaring to maduess Seemed they to follow or guide the revel of frenzied...sorrowful, low lamentation ; Till, having gathered theni all, he tiung them abroad in derision. As when, after a storm, a gust of wind through the tree-tops... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - 1892 - 474 σελίδες
...floods of delirious music, 875 That the whole air and the woods and the waves seemed silent to listen. Plaintive at first were the tones and sad ; then soaring...gathered them all, he flung them abroad in derision, sw ' As when, after a storm, a gust of wind through the tree-tops Shakes down the rattling rain in... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - 1892 - 476 σελίδες
...in sorrowful, low lamentation ; Till, having gathered them all, he flung them abroad in derision, s* As when, after a storm, a gust of wind through the...rattling rain in a crystal shower on the branches. 878. The Bacchantes were worshippers of the god Bacchus, who in Greek mythology presided over the vine... | |
 | 1894 - 676 σελίδες
...the whole air and the woods and the waves seemed silent to listenPlaintive at first were the trees and sad ; then soaring to madness Seemed they to follow...the revel of frenzied Bacchantes. Single notes were heard in sorrowful, low lamentations; Till, having gathered them all, he flung them abroad in derision,... | |
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Then from a neighboring thicket the mocking-bird, wildest of singers, Swinging aloft on a willow spray that hung o'er the water, Shook from his little throat such floods of delirious music, That the whole air and the woods and the waves seemed silent... 
