 Waved like banners that hang on the walls of ancient cathedrals. Deathlike the silence seemed, and unbroken, save by the herons Home to their roosts in the cedar-trees returning at sunset, Or by the owl, as he greeted the moon with demoniac laughter....  Evangeline - Page 92by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1867 - 127 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - American poetry - 1879 - 596 pages
...owl, as he greeted the moon with demoniac laughter. 775 Lovely the moonlight was as it glanced and gleamed on the water, Gleamed on the columns of cypress...the arches, Down through whose broken vaults it fell a» through chinks in a ruin. Dreamlike, and indistinct, and strange were all things around them; And... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1879 - 292 pages
...the owl, as he greeted the moon with demoniac laughter. Lovely the moonlight was as it glanced and gleamed on the water, Gleamed on the columns of cypress...cedar sustaining the arches, Down through whose broken vanlts it fell as through chinks in a ruin. * * * Then in his place, at the prow of the boat, rose... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - American literature - 1881 - 1078 pages
...the owl, as he greeted the moon with demoniac laughter. Lovely the moonlight was as it glanced and gleamed on the water, Gleamed on the columns of cypress...forebodings of ill, unseen and that cannot be compassed. Softly the evening came. The sun from the western, horizon Like a magician extended his golden wand... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Bookbinding - 1881 - 754 pages
...demoniac laughter. Lovely the moonlight was as it glanced and gleamed on the water, wra EVANGELINE. 145 Gleamed on the columns of cypress and cedar, sustaining...o'er their spirits there came a feeling of wonder and Strange forebodings of ill, unseen, and that cannot be comAs, at the tramp of a horse's hoof on the... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1883 - 320 pages
...the owl, as he greeted the moon with demoniac laughter. Lovely tha moonlight was as it glanced and gleamed on the water, Gleamed on the columns of cypress...o'er their spirits there came a feeling of wonder ana sadness, — Strange forebodings of ill, unseen that cannot be compassed. As, at the tramp of a... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Publishers' bindings - 1894 - 748 pages
...the owl, as he greeted the moon with demoniac laughter. Lovely the moonlight was as it glanced and gleamed on the water, Gleamed on the columns of cypress...were all things around them ; And o'er their spirits theie came a feeling of wonder and sadness, — Strange forebodings of ill, unseen and that cannot... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1883 - 356 pages
...they glided adown the turbulent the owl, demoniac laughter. Lovely the moonlight was as it glanced and gleamed on the water, Gleamed on the columns of cypress...arches, Down through whose broken vaults it fell as througn chinks in a ruin. Dreamlike, und iiiinst.net, and strange were all tilings around them ; And... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1883 - 550 pages
...the owl, as he greeted the moon with demoniac laughter. Lovely the moonlight was as it glanced and gleamed on the water, Gleamed on the columns of cypress and cedar sustaining the arches. Down tlirough whose broken vaults it fell as through chinks in a ruin. Dreamlike, and indistinct, and strange... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1883 - 614 pages
...the owl, as he greeted the moon with demoniac laughter. Lovely the moonlight was as it glanced and gleamed on the water, Gleamed on the columns of cypress and cedar sustaining the arches, Dreamlike, and indistinct, and strange were all things around them; And o'er their spirits there came... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1883 - 550 pages
...the owl, as he greeted the moon with demoniac laughter. Lovely the moonlight was as it glanced and gleamed on the water, Gleamed on the columns of cypress and cedar sustaining the arehes, Down through whose broken vaults it fell as through chinks in a ruin. Dreamlike, and indistinct,... | |
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