 I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, 1 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 ; And the song, from beginning to end, I...  Hamilton Graeme; or, The fourth generation, by the author of 'Kind words to ... - Page 290by Hamilton Graeme (fict. name.) - 1864Full view - About this book
 | Charles Granville Gepp - English poetry - 1830 - 194 pages
...where ; For who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song ? Long, long after, in an oak I found the arrow still unbroke : And the song, from beginning to eud, I found again in the heart of a friend. Stanza I. 1, 2. Once with-all-my-might (connixus) I shot... | |
 | Literature - 1859 - 868 pages
...can follow the flight of song ! " Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still nnbroke ; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend." Every one feels that this is merely a conscious and cold-blooded following out of some analogy between... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Literary Criticism - 1846 - 178 pages
...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,...beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend. SONNETS. THE EVENING STAR. Lo ! in the painted oriel of the West, Whose panes the sunken sun incarnadines,... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 308 pages
...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,...beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend. VOICES OF THE T RUE- HE A RTE D. ENDYMION. The rising moon has hid the stars ; Her level rays, like... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1848 - 128 pages
...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,...beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend. THE EVENING STAR. Lo ! in the painted oriel of the West, Whose panes the sunken sun incarnadines, Like... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1850 - 476 pages
...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,...beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend. SONNETS. THE EVENING STAR. Lo ! in the painted oriel of the West, Whose panes the sunken sun incarnadines,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 462 pages
...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 ; And the song, from beginning to end, [ found again in the heart of a friend. THE EVENING STAR. Lo ! in the painted oriel of the West, Whose... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...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,...beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend. SONNETS. THE EVENING STAR. Lo ! in the painted oriel of the West, Whose panes the sunken sun incarnadines,... | |
 | Religion - 1852 - 784 pages
...earth, I know 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...beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend." The other piece is ' Blind Bartimeus.' Children are good judges in general of what is beautiful, and... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1852 - 256 pages
...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,...beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend. SONNETS. AUTUMN, TlIOU comcst, Autumn, heralded by the rain, With banners, by great gales incessant... | |
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