 Scattered were they, like flakes of snow, when the wind from the northeast Strikes aslant through the fogs that darken the Banks of Newfoundland. Friendless, homeless, hopeless, they wandered from city to city, From the cold lakes of the North to sultry...  Evangeline - Page 83by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1867 - 127 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Education - 1910 - 672 pages
...Evangeline (Musingly). To the prairies? To the prairies? (Enter other peasant women and children.) ing, heartbroken, Asked of the earth but a grave, and no longer a Evangeline (Seeing peasant woman). friend nor a fireside. Ah, Katherine, how fares thee? Written their... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1886 - 698 pages
...the wind from the north-east Strikes aslant through the fogs that darken the banks of Newfoundland. Seizes the hills in his hands, and drags them down...mammoth. Friends they sought and homes ; and many, despairing.heart-broken, Asked of the earth but a grave, and no longer a friend nor a fireside. Written... | |
 | Francis Trevelyan Buckland - Animals, Legends and stories of - 1882 - 388 pages
...mysterious pilgrims of the waters ? May good luck attend ye in your perilous voyage— " From the black shores of the sea, to the lands where the Father of...hills in his hands and drags them down to the ocean." In a former page I gave some account of the gregarious habits of the salmon when on the march from... | |
 | 1882 - 310 pages
...He discusses the age of lands, tells us about worn-out continents, and of those wearing away ; how the " Father of Waters seizes the hills in his hands, and drags them down to the ocean." Passing over the essay on geologic time, which offers many a chance for theory and speculation, the... | |
 | Francis Trevelyan Buckland - Natural history - 1882 - 388 pages
...your perilous voyage— " From the black shores of the sea, to the lands where the Father ofWaters Seizes the hills in his hands and drags them down to the ocean." In a former page I gave some account of the gregarious habits of the salmon when on the march from... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1883 - 588 pages
...homeless, hopeless, they wandered from city to city, From the cold lakes of the North to sultry Southern savannas, — From the bleak shores of the sea to...grave, and no longer a friend nor a fireside. Written theirhistory stands on tablets of stone in the churchyards. Long among them was seen a maiden who waited... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1883 - 320 pages
...they wandered From the cold lakes of the North to sultry Southern savannas, — From the bleak chores of the sea to the lands where the Father of Waters...to bury the scattered bones of the mammoth. Friends th ?y sought and homes ; and many, despairing, heait-bioken. Asked of the earth but a grave, and no... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1883 - 550 pages
...to sultrv Southern savannas, — Friendless, homeless, hopeless, they uar.dered irom city to city, From the bleak shores of the sea to the lands where...the ocean, Deep in their sands to bury the scattered hones of" the mammoth. Asked of the eanh but a grave, and no longer a Iriend i or a fireside. Friends... | |
 | Maritime Provinces - 1883 - 420 pages
...From the cold lakes of the North to sultry Southern savaunas, — From the bleak shores of the теa to the lands where the Father of Waters Seizes the...down to the ocean, Deep in their sands to bury the seattered hones of the mammoth. Friends they songht and homes; and many, despairing, heart-broken,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1883 - 356 pages
...cold lakes of the North to sultry Southern savannas, — From the bleak shores of the sea to the lande where the Father of Waters Seizes the hills in his...hands, and drags them down to the ocean, Deep in their Bands to bury the scattered bones of tile mammoth. Friends they sought and home« ; and many, despairing,... | |
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