 | United States - 1842 - 620 pages
...did gaze on me, Burning yet tender ; And as the white stars shine On the dark Norway pine, On thai dark heart of mine Fell their soft splendor." Upon...Loud then the champion laughed, And as the wind-gusts waft The sea-foam brightly, So the loud laugh of scorn, Out of those lips unshorn, From the deep drinking-horn... | |
 | 1842 - 606 pages
...frighted. Bright in her father's hall Shields gleamed upon the wall, Loud sang the minstrels all, Chaunting his glory ; When of old Hildebrand I asked his daughter's...hand, Mute did the minstrels stand To hear my story. More harmonious and beautiful verse than this we have rarely if ever met with. Every stanza seems to... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Literary Criticism - 1842 - 144 pages
...its loosened vest Fluttered her little breast, Like birds within their nest By the hawk frighted. " Bright in her father's hall Shields gleamed upon the wall, Loud sang the minstrels all, Chaunting his glory ; When of old Hildebrand I asked his daughter's hand, Mute did the minstrels stand... | |
 | Books - 1842 - 600 pages
...Under its loosened vest Fluttered her little breast, Like birds within their nest By the hawk frighted. Bright in her father's hall Shields gleamed upon the wall, Loud sang the minstrels all, Chaunting 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
...its loosened vest Fluttered her little breast, Like birds within their nest By the hawk frighted. " Bright in her father's hall Shields gleamed upon the wall, Loud sang the minstrels all, Chaunting his glory ; When of old Hildebrand I asked his daughter's hand, Mute did the minstrels stand... | |
 | Lewis Gaylord Clark - American literature - 1845 - 262 pages
...gleam'd upon the wall, Loud sang the minstrels all, Chaunting his glory; When of Old Hildebrand I ask'd his daughter's hand, Mute did the minstrels stand To hear my story. ' While the brown ale he quaff'd, Loud then the champion laugh'd, And as the wind-gusts waft The sea-foam brightly, So the loud... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 462 pages
...its loosened vest Fluttered her little breast, Like birds within their nest By the hawk frighted. « Bright in her father's hall Shields gleamed upon the wall, Loud sang the minstrels all, Chaunting his glory ; When of old Hildebrand I asked his daughter's hand, Mute did the minstrels stand... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 500 pages
...its loosened vest Fluttered her little breast, Like birds within their nest By the hawk frighted. " Bright in her father's hall Shields gleamed upon the wall, Loud sang the minstrels all, Chaunting his glory ; When of old Hildebrand I asked his daughter's hand, Mute did the minstrels stand... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...Under its loosened vest Fluttered her little breast, Like birds within their nest By the hawk frighted. Bright in her father's hall Shields gleamed upon the...Loud then the champion laughed, And as the wind-gusts waft The sea-foam brightly, So the loud laugh of scorn, Out of those lips unshorn, From the deep drinking-horn... | |
 | Charles Timothy Brooks - America - 1851 - 112 pages
...its loosened vest Fluttered her little breast-, Like birds within their nest By the hawk frighted. " Bright in her father's hall Shields gleamed upon the...the minstrels all, Chanting his glory ; When of old Hiklebrand I asked his daughter's hand, Mule did the minstrels stand To hear my story. " While the... | |
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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. " Bright in her father's hall Shields gleamed... 
