 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!  Flower-de-luce - Seite 57von Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1867 - 72 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Hamilton Wright Mabie - 1909 - 250 Seiten
...accompany the translation of the " Divine Comedy," which belong with the best modern poetry. INFERNO How strange the sculptures that adorn these towers ! This...Birds build their nests; while canopied with leaves Par vis and portal bloom like trellised bowers, And the vast minster seems a cross of flowers ! But... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1910 - 686 Seiten
...the time disconsolate To inarticulate murmurs dies away, While the eternal ages watch aud wait. How strange the sculptures that adorn these towers ! This...gargoyled eaves Watch the dead Christ between the living thieves, And, underneath, the traitor Judas lowers ! Ah ! from what agonies of heart and brain, What... | |
 | Herbert Baring Garrod - 1913 - 422 Seiten
...the time disconsolate To inarticulate murmurs dies away, While the eternal ages watch and wait. " How strange the sculptures that adorn these towers ! This...gargoyled eaves Watch the dead Christ between the living thieves, And, underneath, the traitor Judas lowers ! Ah ! from what agonies of heart and brain, What... | |
 | Sara Agnes Ryan - 1913 - 496 Seiten
...the time disconsolate To inarticulate murmurs dies away, While the eternal ages watch and wait. How strange the sculptures that adorn these towers ! This...gargoyled eaves Watch the dead Christ between the living thieves, And, underneath, the traitor Judas lowers. Ah! from what agonies of heart and brain, What... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1914 - 734 Seiten
...the time disconsolate To inarticulate murmurs dies away, \\1iilr the eternal ages watch and wait. How strange the sculptures that adorn these towers ! This...bowers, And the vast minster seems a cross of flowers I But fiends and dragons on the gargoyled eaves Watch the dead Christ between the living thieves, And,... | |
 | LAURA E. LOCKWOOD, Ph.D - 1916 - 140 Seiten
...inarticulate murmurs dies away, While the eternal ages watch and wait. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. How strange the sculptures that adorn these towers! This...gargoyled eaves Watch the dead Christ between the living thieves, And, underneath, the traitor Judas lowers! Ah! from what agonies of heart and brain, What... | |
 | Laura Emma Lockwood - 1916 - 136 Seiten
...inarticulate murmurs dies away, While the eternal ages watch and wait. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 44 How strange the sculptures that adorn these towers! This...gargoyled eaves Watch the dead Christ between the living thieves, And, underneath, the traitor Judas lowers! Ah! from what agonies of heart and brain, What... | |
 | Robert Swain Peabody - 1916 - 134 Seiten
...ages watch and wait. How strange the sculptures that adorn these towers! This crowd of statues, on whose folded sleeves Birds build their nests; while...gargoyled eaves Watch the dead Christ between the living thieves, And, underneath, the traitor Judas lowers! Ah! from what agonies of heart and brain, What... | |
 | Laura Spencer Portor - 1917 - 312 Seiten
...immortality which characterizes all great beauty and all great art. CHAPTER VI THE DIVINE COMEDY How strange the sculptures that adorn these towers! This...gargoyled eaves Watch the dead Christ between the living thievea, And, underneath, the traitor Judas lowers ! Ah ! from what agonies of heart and brain, What... | |
 | Percy Holmes Boynton, Howard Mumford Jones, George Sherburn, Frank Martindale Webster - 1918 - 750 Seiten
...murmurs dies away, While the eternal ages watch and wait. 1864. Atlantic Monthly, Dec., 1864. ii How strange the sculptures that adorn these towers ! This...bowers, And the vast minster seems a cross of flowers! 1 After the tragic death of Mrs. Longfellow in 1861, Longfellow took refuge in translating Dante's... | |
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