 I wooed the blue-eyed maid, Yielding, yet half afraid, And in the forest's shade Our vows were plighted. Under its loosened vest Fluttered her little breast, Like birds within their nest By the hawk frighted.  The Monthly Review - Page 2521842Full view - About this book
 | United States - 1842 - 650 pages
...following energetic lines, which show, also, the manner in which he received the suitor and his suit. "Bright in her father's hall Shields gleamed upon the wall, Loud sang the minstrels all, Chanting his glory ; When of Old Hildebrand I asked his daughter's hand, Mute did the minstrels stand... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Literary Criticism - 1842 - 148 pages
...the dark Norway pine, On that dark heart of mine Fell their soft splendor. " I wooed the blue-eyed maid, Yielding, yet half afraid, And in the forest's...hand, Mute did the minstrels stand To hear my story. ; While the brown ale he quaffed, Loud then the champion laughed, And as the wind-gusts waft The sea-foam... | |
 | United States - 1842 - 498 pages
...shows the poet. The pirate life, came next, and wassail, and then the wooing/ — I wooed the blue-eyed maid, Yielding, yet half afraid, And in the forest's...Like birds within their nest By the hawk frighted. He told his tale of love, and the story of his life to old Hildebrand, the father, while the minstrels... | |
 | United States - 1842 - 620 pages
...following energetic lines, which show, also, the manner in which he received the suitor and his suit. "Bright in her father's hall Shields gleamed upon the wall, Loud sang the minstrels all, Chanting his glory ; When of Old Hildebrand I asked his daughter's hand, Mute did the minstrels stand... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1843 - 570 pages
...the dark Norway pine, On that dark heart of mine Fell their soft splendor. ': I wooed the blue-eyed maid, Yielding, yet half afraid, And in the forest's...hand, Mute did the minstrels stand To hear my story. : While the brown ale he quaffed, Loud then the champion laughed, And as the wind-gusts waft The sea-foam... | |
 | Lewis Gaylord Clark - American literature - 1845 - 262 pages
...the dark Norway pine, On that dark heart of mine Fell their soft splendor. ' I woo'd the blue-eyed maid, Yielding, yet half afraid, And in the forest's shade Our vows were plighted. Under its loosen'd vest Flutter'd her little breast, Like birds within their nest By the hawk frighted. ' Bright... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 500 pages
...the dark Norway pine, On that dark heart of mine Fell their soft splendor. <: I wooed the blue-eyed maid, Yielding, yet half afraid, And in the forest's...hand, Mute did the minstrels stand To hear my story. " While the brown ale he quaffed, Loud then the champion laughed, And as the wind-gusts waft The sea-foam... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 462 pages
...the dark Norway pine, On that dark heart of mine Fell their soft splendor. " I wooed the blue-eyed maid, Yielding, yet half afraid, And in the forest's...hand, Mute did the minstrels stand To hear my story. * 46 BALLADS. " While the brown ale he quaffed, Loud then the champion laughed, And as the wind-gusts... | |
 | George McHenry (of Liverpool.) - 1850 - 156 pages
...13, p. 26. An imitation of Sappho's ode. 14, p. 26. Esther, ch. ii., ver. 12. 15, p. 27. Under her loosened vest Fluttered her little breast, Like birds within their nest By the hawk frighted. Longfellow. BOOK II. 16, p. 34. " Giavidan Khird," or the " Wisdom of all Times," by Kushang, surnamed... | |
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