 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
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1870 - 642 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 1 III. I ENTER, and I see thee in the gloom Of the long aisles, O poet saturnine ! And strive to make... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1871 - 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,...the earth and air, This mediaeval miracle of song ! INFERNO INFERNO CANTO i. TV /T IDWAY upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest... | |
 | 1907 - 1184 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 1" A Theological Battle It is difficult for an American to understand how a single English preacher... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1870 - 486 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 ! INFERNO. CANTO I. / MIDWAY upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, For... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...trellised bowers, And the vast minster seems a cross of flowers ! But fiends and dragons on the gargoyled mediseval miracle of song ! III. I enter, and I see thee in the gloom Of the long aisles, 0 poet saturnine... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1871 - 656 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,...soul in pain, Uprose this poem of the earth and air, _• This mediseval miracle of song I III. I ENTER, and I see thee in the gloom Of the long aisles,... | |
 | 1872 - 900 pages
...trellised bowers, And the vast minster seems a cross of flowers ! But fiends and dragons on the gargoyled with sobs did pray, — 0, let me be awake, my God ! Or let m hrain, What exultations trampling on despair, What tenderness, what tears, what hate of wrong, What... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1872 - 730 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 Jndas lowers ! Ah ! from what agonies of heart and brain, What exultations trampling on despair, What... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1873 - 906 pages
...trellised bowers, And the vast minster seems a cross of flowers ! But fiends and dragons on the gargoyled 4 (N ( &QH 81 O Uz aisles, 0 poet saturnine ! And strive to make my steps keep pace with thine. The air is filled with... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1874 - 384 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 ! in. I ENTER, and I see thee in the gloom Of the long aisles, O poet saturnine ! And strive to make... | |
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