 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - English poetry - 1845 - 886 pages
...well out was beat, And they found that the haft by an inch was too short, But to alter it then Ч was too late. Now a small elf came running with gold on...heaven's blue, But his heart in its toils shall be lost; 3 The name of Odin's famous ring. К 122 DANISH POETRY. No goddess, not e'en beauty's faultless queen,4... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - English poetry - 1855 - 822 pages
...small eif came running with gold on bis head, Which he gave a dwarf-woman to spin, Who the metal (ike flax on her spinning-wheel laid, , Nor tarried her...heaven's blue, But his heart in its toils shall be lost ; 3 The name of Odin'a famous ring. No goddess, not e'en beauty's faultless queen,4 And th« impetuous... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1871 - 960 pages
...was too short, But to alter it then Ч was too late. Now a small elf came running with gold on hie head, Which he gave a dwarf-woman to spin, Who the...heaven's blue, But his heart in its toils shall be lost ; 3 The name of Otiin'a famous ring. No goddess, not e'en beauty's fruitless queen,4 Such long glossy... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - English poetry - 1871 - 954 pages
...gold thread ran Into hair, though Loke thought it a pity ; She span, and sang to the sledge-hummer's clang This strange, wild spinning-wheel ditty : "Henceforward...grace float in the wind. " No swain shall it view m the clear heaven's blue, But his heart in its toHs shall be lost ; 3 The name of Odin's famoiia ring.... | |
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Now a small elf came running with gold on hie head, Which he gave a dwarf-woman to spin, Who the metal like flax on her spinning-wheel laid, Nor tarried her task to begin. So she span and span, and the gold thread ran Into hair, though Loke thought it... 