I SHOT an arrow into the air, It fell to earth I knew not where ; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight 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... The Golden Present: A Gift for All Seasons - Page 64edited by - 1853 - 128 pagesFull view - About this book
| Charles Granville Gepp - English poetry - 1830 - 194 pages
...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 after, in an oak I found the arrow still unbroke : And the song, from beginning to eud, I found again... | |
| Literature - 1859 - 868 pages
...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 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... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Literary Criticism - 1846 - 178 pages
...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...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
...its flight. 1 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...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
...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...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
...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...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
...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...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
...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...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 - American poetry - 1852 - 256 pages
...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...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... | |
| Religion - 1852 - 784 pages
...its night. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I know not where, For who has sight so keen and strong, That it can follow the flight of...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... | |
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