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... Littell's Living Age - Page 1791867Full view - About this book
| 1866 - 808 pages
...trellised bowers, And the vast minster seems a cross of flowers! But fiends and dragons from the gargoyled eaves Watch the dead Christ between the living thieves,...the earth and air, This mediaeval miracle of song ! FIVE HUNDRED YEARS AGO. WE who enjoy the fruits of civil and religious liberty as our daily food,... | |
| Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 454 pages
...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,...the earth and air, This mediaeval miracle of song ! THE DIVINE COMEDY. INFEENO. CANTO I. MIDWAY upon the journey of our life I found myself within a... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1867 - 482 pages
...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,...pain, Uprose this poem of the earth and air, This mediceval miracle of song ! IIL II ENTER, and I see thee in the gloom Of the long aisles, (i poet saturnine... | |
| Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 438 pages
...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,...outcry of a soul in pain, Uprose this poem of the earth arid air, This mediaeval miracle of song ! INFERNO INFERNO CANTO I. TV /TIDWAY upon the journey of... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1867 - 98 pages
...of flowers ! But fiends and dragons on the gargoyled eaves Watch the dead Christ between the living Ah ! from what agonies of heart and brain, What exultations...the earth and air, This mediaeval miracle of song ! III. T ENTER, and I see thee in the gloom Of the long aisles, O poet saturnine ! And strive to make... | |
| Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 782 pages
...trellised bowers, And the vast minster seems a cross of flowers ! But fiends and dragons 0:1 the gargoyled eaves Watch the dead Christ between the living thieves,...underneath, the traitor Judas lowers ! Ah ! from what a^oni^s of hear; and brain, What exultations trampling on despair, What tender 'ess, what tears, what... | |
| Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 434 pages
...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 Judas lowers ! NoAh ! from what agonies of heart and brain, What exultations trampling on despair, What tenderness,... | |
| Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 432 pages
...The Italian Pilgrim's Progress 384 Dante and Tacitus 39° Dante's Landscapes 394 Dante's Creed 4°i I ENTER, and I see thee in the gloom Of the long aisles, O poet saturnine ! And strive to make my steps keep pace with thine. The air is filled with... | |
| Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 428 pages
...Progress 384 Dante and Tacitus 390 Dante's Landscapes 394 Dante's Creed 401 The Divina Commedia 403 I ENTER, and I see thee in the gloom Of the long aisles, O poet saturnine ! And strive to make my steps keep pace with thine. The air is filled with... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1868 - 410 pages
...And the vast minster seems a cross of flowers ! But fiends and dragons on the gargoyled eaves Watuh the dead Christ between the living thieves, And, underneath,...pain, Uprose this poem of the earth and air, This medíseval miracle of song ! I enter, and I see thee in the gloom Of the long aisles, O poet saturnine... | |
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