I HAVE read, in some old marvellous tale, Some legend strange and vague, That a midnight host of spectres pale Beleaguered the walls of Prague. Beside the Moldau's rushing stream, With the wan moon overhead, There stood, as in an awful dream, The army... The Native Poets of Maine - Seite 18von S. Herbert Lancey - 1854 - 312 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1840 - 818 Seiten
...host of spectres pale Belcagured the walls of Prague. Beside the Moldau's rushing stream, With the won moon overhead, There stood, as in an awful dream,...No drum, nor sentry's pace ; The mist-like banners clasp d the air, Aa clouds with clouds embrace. But when the old cathedral bell Proclaim'd the morning... | |
| Edward Payson Weston - 1840 - 228 Seiten
...and vague, That a midnight host of spectres pale Beleaguered the walls of Prague. Beside the Moldau's rushing stream, With the wan moon overhead, There...sea-fog, landward bound, The spectral camp was seen, No other voice nor sound was there, No drum, nor sentry's pace ; The mist-like banners clasped the... | |
| 1840 - 210 Seiten
...and vague, That a midnight host of speetres pale Besieged the walls of Prague. Beside the Moldaw's rushing stream, With the wan moon overhead, There...the dead. White as a sea-fog, land-ward bound, The speetral eamp was seen, And with a sorrowful, deep sound, The river flowed between. No other voiee... | |
| Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - 1904 - 484 Seiten
...marvellous tale, Some legend strange and vague, That a midnight host of spectres pale l the walls of Prague. No other voice nor sound was there, No drum, nor sentry's...banners clasped the air As clouds with clouds embrace. Tuesday. — Says Mr. CROOKS, mopping his manly brow as he returned to his seat after perambulating... | |
| John Keese - 1842 - 336 Seiten
...and vague, That a midnight host of spectres pale Beleaguered the walls of Prague. Beside the Moldau's rushing stream, With the wan moon overhead, There...a sorrowful, deep sound, The river flowed between. 96 THE BELEAGUERED CITY. No other voice nor sound was there, No drum, nor sentry's pace ; The mist-like... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1842 - 638 Seiten
...and vague, That a midnight host of spectres pale Beleagured the walls of Prague. Beside the Moldau's rushing stream, With the wan moon overhead, There...seen, And, with a sorrowful, deep sound, The river flow'd between. No other voice nor sound was there, No drum, nor sentry's pace ; The mist-like banners... | |
| 1842 - 818 Seiten
...Beside the Moldan's rushing stream, With the wan moon over head, There stood, as in an awful dream, An army of the dead. White as a sea-fog, landward bound,...a sorrowful, deep sound, The river flowed between. I have read in the marvellous heart of man — That strange and mystic scroll — That an army of phantoms... | |
| John Keese - 1845 - 338 Seiten
...and vague, That a midnight host of spectres pale Beleaguered the walls of Prague. Beside the Moldau's rushing stream, With the wan moon overhead, There...camp was seen, And, with a sorrowful, deep sound, No other voice nor sound was there, No drum, nor sentry's pace ; The mist-like banners clasped the... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - 1849 - 448 Seiten
...the skin of his teeth, from wintering near the antarctic circle: CHAPTER Vli. '•Beside the Moldau's rushing stream, With the wan moon overhead,. There...stood, as in an awful dream, The army of the dead." LONGFELLOW. MOST of our readers will understand what was meant by Mary Pratt's " inclination of the... | |
| Robert Kemp Philp - 434 Seiten
...midnight host of spectres pale Beleaguer'd the walls of Prague. Beside the Moldan's rushing stream. The wan moon overhead. There stood, as in an awful dream, The army of the dead. White as a pea-fog, landward bound, The spectral camp was seen, And, with a sorrowful, deep sound. The river flow'd... | |
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