American Poems: Longfellow: Whittier: Bryant: Holmes: Lowell: Emerson: with Biographical Sketches and NotesHorace Elisha Scudder Houghton, Osgood, 1881 - 455 pages |
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Page 60
... dream and wait for him longer ? Are there not other youths as fair as Gabriel ? others 710 Who have hearts as tender and true , and spirits as loyal ? Here is Baptiste Leblanc , the notary's son , who has loved thee Many a tedious year ...
... dream and wait for him longer ? Are there not other youths as fair as Gabriel ? others 710 Who have hearts as tender and true , and spirits as loyal ? Here is Baptiste Leblanc , the notary's son , who has loved thee Many a tedious year ...
Page 68
... dream , an idle and vague supersti- tion ? Or has an angel passed , and revealed the truth to my spirit ? " Then , with a blush , she added , " Alas for my credulous fancy ! Unto ears like thine such words as these have no meaning ...
... dream , an idle and vague supersti- tion ? Or has an angel passed , and revealed the truth to my spirit ? " Then , with a blush , she added , " Alas for my credulous fancy ! Unto ears like thine such words as these have no meaning ...
Page 80
... oak , returning from labor , Thou hast lain down to rest , and to dream of me in thy slumbers ! When shall these eyes behold , these arms be folded about thee ? " 1 Loud and sudden and near the note of a whip- 80 LONGFELLOW .
... oak , returning from labor , Thou hast lain down to rest , and to dream of me in thy slumbers ! When shall these eyes behold , these arms be folded about thee ? " 1 Loud and sudden and near the note of a whip- 80 LONGFELLOW .
Page 99
... and saint - like , " Gabriel ! O my beloved ! " and died away into silence . Then he beheld , in a dream , once more the home of his childhood ; 1365 Green Acadian meadows , with sylvan rivers among them EVANGELINE . 99.
... and saint - like , " Gabriel ! O my beloved ! " and died away into silence . Then he beheld , in a dream , once more the home of his childhood ; 1365 Green Acadian meadows , with sylvan rivers among them EVANGELINE . 99.
Page 121
... dreams that had faded , and all the hopes that had vanished , All his life henceforth a dreary and tenantless mansion , Haunted by vain regrets , and pallid , sorrowful faces . Still he said to himself , and almost fiercely he said it ...
... dreams that had faded , and all the hopes that had vanished , All his life henceforth a dreary and tenantless mansion , Haunted by vain regrets , and pallid , sorrowful faces . Still he said to himself , and almost fiercely he said it ...
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