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
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1883 - 320 sidor
...bloom like trellised bowers, Aud the vast minster seems a cross of flowers ! But fiends and dragons on the gargoyled eaves Watch the dead Christ between...What passionate outcry of a soul in pain, Uprose this poein of the earth and air, Tins mediaeval miracle of song ! HL I ENTER, and I see thee in the gloom... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1883 - 550 sidor
...trellised howers, And the vast minster seems a cross of flowers I But fiends and dragons on the gar. goyled eaves Watch the dead Christ between the living thieves,...passionate outcry of a soul in pain, Uprose this poem nf the earth and air. This mediaeval miracle of song i I ENTER, and I see thee in the ploom Of the... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1883 - 356 sidor
...dead Christ between the living thieve«, And, underneath, the traitor Judas lowers ! Ah ! from whiit agonies of heart and brain. What exultations trampling...the earth and air, This mediaeval miracle of song ! IIL I ESTER, and I see thce in the gloom Of the long aisles, О poet saturnine ! And strive to make... | |
| 1883 - 528 sidor
...trellised bowers, And the vast minster seems a cross of flowers ! But fiends and dragons on the gargoyledt eaves Watch the dead Christ between the living thieves,...tenderness, what tears, what hate of wrong, What passionate ovitcry of a soul in pain, Uprose this poem of the earth and air, This niediieval miracle of song !... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1883 - 550 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... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1883 - 744 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 Judis lowers ! Ah ! from what agonies of heart and brain, What exultations trampling on despair, What... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1883 - 588 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 tratior Judas lowers ! Ah ! from what agonies of heart and brain, What exultations tramp'.ing on despair,... | |
| Joseph Henry Allen - 1884 - 336 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 ! " It is no more than we must say of all poetry worthy to be read, to say that its melody must be... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1884 - 732 sidor
...the time disconsolate To inarticulate murmurs dies away, While the eternal ages watch and wait. II. Watch the dead Christ between the living thieves,...the earth and air, This mediaeval miracle of song! in. The hovering echoes fly from tomb to tomb. From the confessionals I hear arise Rehearsals of forgotten... | |
| Joseph Henry Allen - 1884 - 336 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...tenderness, what tears, what hate of wrong, What passionate outc1y of a soul in pain, Uprose this poem of the earth and air, This Mediaeval miracle of song ! "... | |
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