 How strange the sculptures that adorn these towers! This crowd of statues, in whose folded sleeves Birds build their nests; while canopied with leaves Parvis and portal bloom like trellised bowers, And the vast minster seems a cross of flowers! But fiends...  The Atlantic Monthly - Sida 5241866Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | 1907 - 1184 sidor
...bloom like trellised bowers, And the vast minster seems a cross of flowers ! But fiends and dragons on the gargoyled eaves Watch the dead Christ between...the earth and air, This mediaeval miracle of song 1" A Theological Battle It is difficult for an American to understand how a single English preacher... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1870 - 486 sidor
...bloom like trellised bowers, And the vast minster seems a cross of flowers ! But fiends and dragons on the gargoyled eaves Watch the dead Christ between...the earth and air, This mediaeval miracle of song ! INFERNO. CANTO I. / MIDWAY upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, For... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 sidor
...bloom like trellised bowers, And the vast minster seems a cross of flowers ! But fiends and dragons on mediseval miracle of song ! III. I enter, and I see thee in the gloom Of the long aisles, 0 poet saturnine... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1871 - 656 sidor
...bloom like trellised bowers, And the vast minster seems a cross of flowers ! But fiends and dragons on the gargoyled eaves ' Watch the dead Christ between...soul in pain, Uprose this poem of the earth and air, _• This mediseval miracle of song I III. I ENTER, and I see thee in the gloom Of the long aisles,... | |
 | 1872 - 900 sidor
...bloom like trellised bowers, And the vast minster seems a cross of flowers ! But fiends and dragons on or-bar, And I with sobs did pray, — 0, let me be awake, my God ! Or let m hrain, What exultations trampling on despair, What tenderness, what tears, what hate of wrong, What... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1872 - 730 sidor
...bloom like trellised bowers, And the vast minster seems a cross of flowers ! But fiends and dragons on the gargoyled eaves Watch the dead Christ between the living thieves, And, underneath, the traitor Jndas lowers ! Ah ! from what agonies of heart and brain, What exultations trampling on despair, What... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1873 - 906 sidor
...bloom like trellised bowers, And the vast minster seems a cross of flowers ! But fiends and dragons on 4 p mv J P 4 (N ( &QH 81 O Uz ! I enter, and I see thee in the gloom Of the long aisles, 0 poet saturnine ! And strive to make my... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1874 - 384 sidor
...bloom like trellised bowers, And the vast minster seems a cross of flowers ! But fiends and dragons on the gargoyled eaves Watch the dead Christ between...the earth and air, This mediaeval miracle of song ! in. I ENTER, and I see thee in the gloom Of the long aisles, O poet saturnine ! And strive to make... | |
 | John Cotton Smith - 1876 - 272 sidor
...Dante's time, that the world should stand still, that wrung Dante's heart with untold suffering. " Ali ! from what agonies of heart and brain, What exultations...the earth and air, This mediaeval miracle of song." It is a strange delight to one who believes in progress and anticipates a better future for the race,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 576 sidor
...bloom like trellised bowers, And the vast minster seems a cross of flowers ! But fiends and dragons on the gargoyled eaves Watch the dead Christ between...thieves, And, underneath, the traitor Judas lowers I Ah ! from what agonies of heart and brain, What exultations trampling on despair, What tenderness,... | |
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