 HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. 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...  The Poets of America - Page 95edited by - 1842 - 326 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1878 - 660 pages
...And with childlike, credulous affection We behold their tender bnds expand ; THE BELEAGUERED CITY. I HAVE read, in some old marvellous tale, Some legend...camp was seen, And, with a sorrowful, deep sound, The river flowed between. No other voice nor sound was there, No drum, nor sentry's pace; The mist-like... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1878 - 238 pages
...expand ; THE BELEAGUERED CITY. HAVE read, in some old marvellous tali Some legend strange and vague, a midnight host of spectres pale Beleaguered the walls...spectral camp was seen, And with a sorrowful, deep sound, The river flowed between. No other voice nor sound was there, No drum, nor sentry's pace ; The mist-like... | |
 | Textbooks - 1878 - 254 pages
...I Be lea'guered, surrounded b3 ill; ominous. an army; besieged. I HAVE read, in some old, marvelous tale, Some legend strange and vague, That a midnight...of spectres pale Beleaguered the walls of Prague. 2. Beside the Moldau's rushing stream, "With the van moon overhead, There stood, as in an awful dream,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American literature - 1878 - 450 pages
...land. THE BELEAGUERED CITY. That a midnight host of spectres pale Beleaguered the walls of Prague. I HAVE read, in some old, marvellous tale, Some legend strange and vague, Beside the Moldau's rushing stream, With the wan moon overhead, There stood, as in an awful dream,... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - American literature - 1879 - 712 pages
...heart lor any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait THE BELEAGUERED CITY. I have read, in some old, marvellous tale, Some legend...camp was seen, And, with a sorrowful, deep sound, The river flowed between. No other voice nor sound was there, No drum, nor sentry's pace ; The mist-like... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1879 - 562 pages
...Emblems of our own great resurrection, Emblems of the bright and better land. THE BELEAGUERED CITY. That a midnight host of spectres pale Beleaguered the walls of Prague. I HAVE read, in someold, marvellous tale, Some legend strange and vague, There stood, as in an awful... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1880 - 328 pages
...Speaking of the Past unto the Presei •^B VOICES OF THE NIGHT. THE BELEAGUERED CITY. I HAVE read, m some old marvellous tale, Some legend strange and...camp was seen, And, with a sorrowful, deep sound, The river flowed between. No other voice nor sound was there, No drum, nor sentry's pace; The mist-like... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1880 - 686 pages
...host of spectres pale Beleaguered the walls of Prague. Beoido the Moldau's rushing stream, With tho wan moon overhead, There stood, as in an awful dream, The army of the dead. \Vhito as a sea-fog, landward bound, Tho spectral camp was seen, And, with a sorrowful, deep sound,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Bookbinding - 1881 - 754 pages
...Emblems of our own great resurrection, Emblems of the bright and better land. THE BELEAGUERED CITY. I HAVE read, in some old marvellous tale, Some legend...camp was seen, And, with a sorrowful, deep sound, The river flowed between. No other voice nor sound was there, No drum, nor sentry's pace; The mist-like... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - Sealers (Persons) - 1881 - 506 pages
...who had escaped by the skin of his teeth, from wintering near the antarctic circle. CHAPTER XXII. " Beside the Moldau's rushing stream. With the wan moon...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... | |
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