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" There, in the tranquil evenings of summer, when brightly the sunset Lighted the village street, and gilded the vanes on the chimneys, Matrons and maidens sat in snow-white caps, and in kirtles Scarlet and blue and green, with distaffs spinning the golden... "
The Metropolitan - Page 303
1848
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The New Fifth Reader

Richard Gilmour - Christian life - 1894 - 418 pages
...projecting Over the basement below, protected and shaded the doorway. There, in the tranquil evenings of summer, when brightly the sunset Lighted the village...the whir of the wheels and the songs of the maidens. 3. Solemnly down the street came the parish priest, and the children Paused in their play to kiss the...
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English Grammar for Common Schools

Robert Comfort Metcalf, Thomas Metcalf - English language - 1894 - 304 pages
...blossoms many-numbered ; Age, that bough with snows encumbered. 24. There in the tranquil evenings of summer, when brightly the sunset Lighted the village...the whir of the wheels and the songs of the maidens. 25. Anon from the belfry Softly the Angelus sounded, and over the roofs of the village Columns of pale...
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English Grammar for Common Schools

Robert Comfort Metcalf, Thomas Metcalf - English language - 1894 - 300 pages
...many-numbered ; Age, that bough with snows encumbered. 24. There in the tranquil evenings of summer, wheu brightly the sunset Lighted the village street, and...the whir of the wheels and the songs of the maidens. 25. Anon from the belfry Softly the Angelus sounded, and over the roofs of the village Columns of pale...
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Select Poems of Coleridge, Wordsworth, Campbell Longfellow

Frederick Henry Sykes - 1895 - 690 pages
...35 gables projecting Over the basement below protected and shaded the There in the tranquil evenings of summer, when brightly the sunset Lighted the village...Scarlet and blue and green, with distaffs spinning the 40 golden Flax for the gossiping looms, whose noisy shuttles within doors Mingled their sounds with...
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Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Acadians - 1895 - 136 pages
...the parish priest, and the children Paused in their play to kiss the hand he extended to bless them." Matrons and maidens sat in snow-white caps and in...Flax for the gossiping looms, whose noisy shuttles withindoors Mingled their sound with the whir of the wheels and the songs of the maidens. Solemnly...
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English Poetry..: With Introduction, Notes and Illustrations, Volume 3

English poetry - 1896 - 532 pages
...projecting Over the b'asement below protected and shaded the doorway There in the tranquil evenings of summer, when brightly the sunset Lighted the village...looms, whose noisy shuttles within doors Mingled their sounds with the whir of the wheels and the songs of the maidens. Solemnly down the street came the...
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Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Acadians in literature - 1896 - 392 pages
...projecting u Over the basement below protected and shaded the doorway. There in the tranquil evenings of summer, when brightly the sunset Lighted the village...blue and green, with distaffs spinning the golden 40 Flax for the gossiping looms, whose noisy shuttles within doors Mingled their sound with the whir...
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Poetical Works, Volume 2

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1897 - 380 pages
...projecting Over the basement below protected and shaded the doorway. There in the tranquil evenings of summer, when brightly the sunset Lighted the village...looms, whose noisy shuttles within doors Mingled their sounds with the whir of the wheels and the songs of the maidens. Solemnly down the street came the...
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School Reading by Grades: Seventh Year

James Baldwin - Readers - 1897 - 252 pages
...projecting Over the basement below protected and shaded the doorway. There in the tranquil evenings of summer, when brightly the sunset Lighted the village...Scarlet and blue and green, with distaffs spinning the 15 Flax for the gossiping looms, whose noisy shuttles within doors Mingled their sound with the whir...
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The British Empire in the Nineteenth Century: Its Progress and ..., Volume 1

Edgar Sanderson - Great Britain - 1897 - 410 pages
...windows and projecting gables", vanes on chimneys, gilded by the evening-sun, and " matrons and maids in snow-white caps and in kirtles Scarlet and blue...spinning the golden Flax for the gossiping looms". Hexameters, however, are not, in this case, history, nor is the pathos of poetry the same as prosaic...
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