 | American literature - 1846 - 308 pages
...and doing, With a heart for any fate ; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. THE ARROW AND THE SONG. I shot an arrow into the air,...earth, I knew not where ; For, so swiftly it flew, the tight Could not follow it in its flight. 1 breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not... | |
 | Mrs. J. Thayer - Gift books - 1853 - 144 pages
...shallow — it's bad policy, for a strong current sweeps them all away in an instant. THE MAIDEH AUNT. Song. I SHOT an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where, For so swift it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - American literature - 1854 - 580 pages
...feeling We may not wholly stay: Bat silence sanctifying, not concealing, The grief that must have way. THE ARROW AND THE SONG. I shot an arrow into the air, It füll to earth I knew not wliere; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow in its flight.... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 264 pages
...! The horologe of Eternity Sayeth this incessantly, — " For ever — never ! Never — for ever!" THE ARROW AND THE SONG. I SHOT an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where ; For, so swiftlv it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air. It fell... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1855 - 580 pages
...that I can give ; it is Mrs. Browning's favorite among the poems of Longfellow : THE ARROW AND THB SONG. I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth I knew not where ; For, BO swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow in iU flight ' I hreathed a song into the air, It fell... | |
 | Marc Antony Henderson - Parodies - 1856 - 156 pages
...of course slight. Ten miles per day is the greatest attainable speed. THE APPLE AND THE EEMAKK. *' I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where ; For BO swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight." THE ARROW AND THE Soya. Longfellow.... | |
 | C H. H - 1856 - 338 pages
...of those lines of Longfellow's, — I only remember the substance, — something to this effect : ' I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where ; I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where. Long, long afterward, in an oak,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1867 - 482 pages
...listen ! As it passes thus between us, How its wavelets laugh and glisten In the head of old Silenus ! THE ARROW AND THE SONG. I SHOT an arrow into the air, It fell tu earth, I knew not where; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow in its flight. I breathed... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1868 - 410 pages
...listen ! As it passes thus between us, How its wavelets laugh and glisten In the head of old Silenus! THE ARROW AND THE SONG. I SHOT an arrow into the air,...fell to earth, I knew not where ; For, so swiftly it dew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth,... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1868 - 750 pages
...manner, our words behind us. Sometimes we find them again after many days, as sings Longfellow:— " I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; Long, long afterwards, in an oak, I found the arrow yet unbroke," And there, too, as he suggests, we... | |
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Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where ; | For who has sight so keen and strong, ! That it can follow the flight of song ? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke... 
