 THE BELEAGUERED CITY. I HAVE read, in some old marvellous tale, Some legend strange and vague, That a midnight host of spectres pale Beleaguered the walls of Prague. Beside the Moldau's rushing stream, With the wan moon overhead, There stood, as in an...  The Poets of America: Illustrated by One of Her Paintersedited by - 1841Snippet view - About this book
 | Edward Payson Weston - American poetry - 1840 - 224 pages
...read in some old marvellous tale, Some legend strange and vague, That a midnight host of spectres pale Beleaguered the walls of Prague. Beside the Moldau's...sea-fog, landward bound, The spectral camp was seen, No other voice nor sound was there, No drum, nor sentry's pace ; The mist-like banners clasped the... | |
 | 1840 - 210 pages
...and vague, That a midnight host of speetres pale Besieged the walls of Prague. Beside the Moldaw's rushing stream, With the wan moon overhead, There...the dead. White as a sea-fog, land-ward bound, The speetral eamp was seen, And with a sorrowful, deep sound, The river flowed between. No other voiee... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1842 - 638 pages
...old marvellous tale Some legend strange and vague, That a midnight host of spectres pale Beleagured the walls of Prague. Beside the Moldau's rushing stream,...seen, And, with a sorrowful, deep sound, The river flow'd between. No other voice nor sound was there, No drum, nor sentry's pace ; The mist-like banners... | |
 | 1842 - 818 pages
...Beside the Moldan's rushing stream, With the wan moon over head, There stood, as in an awful dream, An army of the dead. White as a sea-fog, landward bound,...a sorrowful, deep sound, The river flowed between. I have read in the marvellous heart of man — That strange and mystic scroll — That an army of phantoms... | |
 | John Keese - American poetry - 1845 - 338 pages
...read, in some old marvellous tale, Some legend strange and vague, That a midnight host of spectres pale Beleaguered the walls of Prague. Beside the Moldau's...camp was seen, And, with a sorrowful, deep sound, No other voice nor sound was there, No drum, nor sentry's pace ; The mist-like banners clasped the... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - Sea stories - 1849 - 448 pages
...man who had escaped by the skin of his teeth, from wintering near the antarctic circle: CHAPTER Vli. '•Beside the Moldau's rushing stream, With the wan...stood, as in an awful dream, The army of the dead." LONGFELLOW. MOST of our readers will understand what was meant by Mary Pratt's " inclination of the... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 434 pages
...midnight host of spectres pale Beleaguer'd the walls of Prague. Beside the Moldan's rushing stream. The wan moon overhead. There stood, as in an awful dream, The army of the dead. White as a pea-fog, landward bound, The spectral camp was seen, And, with a sorrowful, deep sound. The river flow'd... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...read in some old marvellous tale, Some legend strange and vague, That a midnight host of spectres pale Beleaguered the walls of Prague. Beside the Moldau's rushing stream, With the wan moon over head, There stood, as in an awful dream, The army of the dead. White as a sea-fog, landward bound,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1852 - 256 pages
...vague.' That a midnight host of spectres pale Beleaguered the walls of Prague. Beside the Moldtiu's rushing stream, With the wan moon overhead. There...seen, And, with a sorrowful, deep sound, The river no wed between. Xo other voice nor sound was there, No drum, nor sentry's pace ; The mist-like banners... | |
 | Readers - 1853 - 458 pages
...read in some old marvellous tale, Some legend strange and vague, That a midnight host of spectres pale Beleaguered the walls of Prague. Beside the Moldau's...sea-fog, landward bound, The spectral camp was seen, And, witli a sorrowful, deep sound, The river flowed between. No other voice nor sound was there, No drum,... | |
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