 Fair was she to behold, that maiden of seventeen summers. Black were her eyes as the berry that grows on the thorn by the way-side, Black, yet how softly they gleamed beneath the brown shade of her tresses ! Sweet was her breath as the breath of kine...  Evangeline - Page 12by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1894 - 125 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...was the man of seventy winters ; Hearty and hale was he, an oak that is covered with snow-flakes ; White as the snow were his locks, and his cheeks as...of her tresses ! Sweet was her breath as the breath of kine that feed in the meadows. When in the harvest heat she bore to the reapers at noon-tide Flagons... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1852 - 610 pages
...ordinary prose. We commence our extracts from " Evangeline " with the description of the heroine. " Fair was she to behold, that maiden of seventeen summers....her eyes as the berry that grows on the thorn by the way side ; Black, yet how softly they gleamed beneath the brown shade of her tresses ! Sweet was her... | |
 | 1852 - 620 pages
...ordinary prose. We commence our extracts from " Evangeline" with the description of the heroine. " Fair was she to behold, that maiden of seventeen summers....were her eyes as the berry that grows on the thorn by tho way side ; Black, yet how softly they gleamed beneath the brown shade of her tresses ! Sweet was... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853 - 470 pages
...was the man of seventy winters ; Hearty and hale was he, an oak that is covered with snow-flakes ; White as the snow were his locks, and his cheeks as...of her tresses ! Sweet was her breath as the breath of kine that feed in the meadows. When in the harvest heat she bore to the reapers at noontide Flagons... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1854 - 174 pages
...was the man of seventy winters ; ~ Hearty and hale was he, an oak that is covered with snow-flakes ; White as the snow were his locks, and his cheeks as...of her tresses ! Sweet was her breath as the breath of kine that feed in the meadows. When in the harvest heat she bore to the reapers at noontide Flagons... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Acadians - 1854 - 124 pages
...was the man of seventy winters ; Hearty and hale was he, an oak that is covered with snow-flakes ; White as the snow were his locks, and his cheeks as...seventeen summers. Black were her eyes as the berry thatgrows on the thorn by the wayside, Black, yet how softly they gleamed beneath the brown shade of... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - American literature - 1854 - 580 pages
...that is covered with snow-flakes; AYhite äs the snow were his locks, and his cheeks äs brown äs the oak-leaves. Fair was she to behold, that maiden of seventeen summers. Black were her eyes äs the berry that grows on the thorn by the way-side, Black, yet how softly they gleamed bcnesth the... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - Readers - 1854 - 336 pages
...form was the man of seventy winters; Hearty and hale was he, an oak that is cover'd with snow-flakes; White as the snow were his locks, and his cheeks as brown as the oak-leaves. way-side, Black, yet how softly they gleam'd beneath the brown shade of Fair was she to behold, that... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 264 pages
...was the man of seventy winters ; Hearty and hale was he, an oak that is covered with snow-flakes ; White as the snow were his locks, and his cheeks as...of her tresses ! Sweet was her breath as the breath of kine that feed in the meadows. When in the harvest heat she bore to the reapers at noon-tide Flagons... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1855 - 462 pages
...ourselves the pleasure of transcribing the following portraiture of the heroine : — Fair was shc to behold, that maiden of seventeen summers. Black...that grows on the thorn by the wayside — Black, vet how softly they gleamed beneath the brown shade of her tresses 1 Sweet was her breath, as the breath... | |
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