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Bezig met laden... Evangeline and Other Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)door Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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It has been said that a copy of Longfellow's narrative poem Evangeline could be found in every literate household in America in the nineteenth century. Certainly its poignant romance touched many hearts and stirred deepening interest in the Maine-born Harvard educator who, in his lifetime, would become America's most famous poet. This book contains the complete Evangeline and a number of other widely admired Longfellow poems. Included are the memorable "The Skeleton in Armor," "The Arsenal at Springfield," "Mezzo Cammin," and "Aftermath." Here, too, is Divina Commedia, the six sonnets on Dante that are among the poet's finest works. All have been reprinted from an authoritative edition of Longfellow's poems. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Well, it was a good read, though sad. Saturday I lounged on the couch and read it not once but twice. Beautifully written; the imagery in high definition.
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Suddenly rose from the south a light,
as in autumn the blood-red
Moon climbs the crystal walls of
heaven, and o'er the horizon
Titan-like stretches its hundred hands
upon mountain and meadow,
Seizing the rocks and the rivers, and
piling huge shadows together.
Broader and ever broader it gleamed
on the roofs of the village.
Gleamed on the sky and the sea, and
the ships that lay in the roadstead.
Columns of shining smoke uprose, and
flashes of flame were
Thrust through their folds and withdrawn,
like the quivering hands of a martyr.
Then as the wind seized the gleeds and
the burning thatch, and, uplifting,
Whirled them aloft through the air, at
once from a hundred house-tops
Started the sheeted smoke with flashes
of flame intermingled.
These things beheld in dismay the
crowd on the shore and on shipboard.
Speechless at first they stood, then
cried aloud in their anguish,
"We shall behold no more our homes
in the village of Grand-Pre!" ( )