 Dikes, that the hands of the farmers had raised with labor incessant, Shut out the turbulent tides ; but at stated seasons the flood-gates Opened, and welcomed the sea to wander at will o'er the meadows.  Poems - Page 141by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Gostwick - American literature - 1856 - 338 pages
...the shores of the Basin of Minas, Distant, secluded, still, the little village of Grand-Pr£ • Lay in the fruitful valley. Vast meadows stretched to...Dikes, that the hands of the farmers had raised with labour incessant, Shut out the turbulent tides ; but at stated seasons the flood-gates Opened, and... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1856 - 432 pages
...on the shores of the Basin of Minas, Distant, secluded, still, the little village of Grand-Fra Lay in the fruitful valley. Vast meadows stretched to...village its name, and pasture to flocks without number. r. Pikes, that the hands of the farmers had raised with labor incessant, Shut out the turbulent tides... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1857 - 428 pages
...village its name, and pasture to flocks without number. I. Dikes, that the bands of the formers hod raised with labor incessant, Shut out the turbulent...welcomed the sea to wander at will o'er the meadows. AVest and south there were fields of flax, and orchards and cornfields Spreading afar and unfenced... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1857 - 714 pages
...on the shores of the Basin of Minos, Distant, secluded, still, the little village of Grand Pro Lay in the fruitful valley. Vast meadows stretched to...flocks without number. Dikes, that the hands of the fanners bad raised with labor incessant, Shut out the turbulent tides: but at stated seasons the flood-gates... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1858 - 690 pages
...on the shores of the Basin of Minus, distant, secluded, still, the little village of Grand-Pre lay in the fruitful valley. Vast meadows stretched to...without number. Dikes, that the hands of the farmers hod raised with lahor incessant, shut out the turbulent tides ; but at stated seasons the flood-gates... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1859 - 724 pages
...on the shores of the Basin of Minas, Distant, secluded, still, the little village of Grand-Pre Lay in the fruitful valley. Vast meadows stretched to...Dikes, that the hands of the farmers had raised with labour incessant, Shut out the turbulent tides ; but at stated seasons ihe flood-gates Opened, and... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Acadians - 1860 - 170 pages
...tradition still sung by the pines of the forest ; List to a Tale of Love in Acadie, home of Unhappy. PART THE FIRST. I. IN the Acadian land, on the shores...incessant, Shut out the turbulent tides ; but at stated Opened, and welcomed the sea to wander at will o'er the meadows. West and south there were fields of... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1860 - 468 pages
...on the shores of the Basin of Minas, Distant, secluded, still, the little village of Grand-Pre Lay in the fruitful valley. Vast meadows stretched to...hands of the farmers had raised with labor incessant, Opened, and welcomed the sea to wander at will o'er the meadows. West and south there were fields of... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Gilbert - American poetry - 1860 - 448 pages
...seeluded, still, the little village of Grand-Pre Lay in the fruitful valley. Vast meadows stretehed to the eastward, Giving the village its name. and...that the hands of the farmers had raised with labor ineessant. Shut out the turbulent tides ; but at stated seasons the flood-gates Opened, and weleomed... | |
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