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Hospital Sketches - Page 70
by Robert Swain Peabody - 1916 - 90 pages
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18

1866 - 808 pages
...COMMEDIA. FOURTH SONNET. • HOW strange the sculptures that adorn these towers ! This crowd of statues, in whose folded sleeves Birds build their nests ; while...minster seems a cross of flowers! But fiends and dragons from the gargoyled eaves Watch the dead Christ between the living thieves, And underneath the traitor...
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume 1

Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 434 pages
...ages watch and wait. TT OW strange the sculptures that adorn these towers ! This crowd of statues, in whose folded sleeves Birds build their nests ; while...thieves, And, underneath, the traitor Judas lowers ! NoAh ! from what agonies of heart and brain, What exultations trampling on despair, What tenderness,...
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Flower-de-luce

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1867 - 98 pages
...watch and wait. II. TTOW strange the sculptures that adorn these towers ! This crowd of statues, in whose folded sleeves Birds build their nests; while...gargoyled eaves Watch the dead Christ between the living Ah ! from what agonies of heart and brain, What exultations trampling on despair, What tenderness,...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 93

1867 - 894 pages
...the sculptures that adorn these towers I This crowd of statues, in whose folded sleeves Birds huild their nests ; while canopied with leaves Parvis and...a cross of flowers ! But fiends and dragons on the gargoylcd eaves Watch the dead Christ between the living thieves, And, underneath, the traitor Judas...
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume 1

Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 782 pages
...whose folded sleeves Birds build their nests ; while canopied with leave* Parvis ana portal bio >;n like 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, And, underneath, the traitor...
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The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Complete ed

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1868 - 410 pages
...ages watch and wait. How strange the sculptures that adorn these towers I This crowd of statues, in whose folded sleeves Birds build their nests ; while...flowers ! But fiends and dragons on the gargoyled eaves Watuh the dead Christ between the living thieves, And, underneath, the traitor Judas lowers ! Ah !...
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume 1

Dante Alighieri - 1870 - 480 pages
...ages watch and wait T "I OW strange the sculptures that adorn these towers ! This crowd of statues, in whose folded sleeves Birds build their nests ; while...bowers, And the vast minster seems a cross of flowers ! t But fiends and dragons on the gargoyled eaves Watch the dead Christ between the living thieves,...
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The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Author's ..., Issue 347

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1872 - 730 pages
...these towers ! This crowd of statues, in whose folded sleeves Birds build their nests ; while cdnopied with leaves Parvis and portal bloom like trellised...between the living thieves, And, underneath, the traitor Jndas lowers ! Ah ! from what agonies of heart and brain, What exultations trampling on despair, What...
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A Library of Poetry and Song: Being Choice Selections from the Best Poets

1872 - 900 pages
...ages watch and wait. How strange the sculptures that adorn these towers ! This crowd of statues, in d : I only speak right on ; I anil portal bloom like trellised bowers, And the vast minster seems a cross of flowers ! But fiends...
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A New Library of Poetry and Song, Volume 2

William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 576 pages
...ages watch and wait How strange the sculptures that adorn these towers ! This crowd of statues, in whose folded sleeves Birds build their nests ; while...thieves, And, underneath, the traitor Judas lowers I Ah ! from what agonies of heart and brain, What exultations trampling on despair, What tenderness,...
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