 Soon were lost in a maze of sluggish and devious waters, Which, like a network of steel, extended in every direction. Over their heads the towering and tenebrous boughs of the cypress Met in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in mid-air Waved like banners...  Littell's Living Age - Pagina 3781849Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1908 - 460 pagina’s
...and framed into houses: where, as so graphically limned in Julio's landscapes, overhead the towering boughs of the cypress met in a dusky arch and trailing mosses in mid-air waved like banners; where in the golden sun lay the lakes of Atchafalaya, with water lilies... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1909 - 428 pagina’s
...Coa'st, and groves of orange and citron, Sweeps with majestic curve the river away to the eastward. They, too, swerved from their course; and, entering the Bayou of Plaquemine, 5 Soon were lost in a maze of sluggish and devious waters, Which, like a network of steel, extended... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1909 - 426 pagina’s
...Coast, and groves of orange and citron, Sweeps with majestic curve the river away to the eastward. They, too, swerved from their course ; and, entering the Bayou of Plaquemine, 5 Soon were lost in a maze of sluggish and devious waters, Which, like a network of steel, extended... | |
 | 1910 - 532 pagina’s
...Coast, and groves of orange and citron, Sweeps with majestic curve the river away to the eastward. They, too, swerved from their course; and entering...cypress Met in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in mid-air Waved like banners that hang on the walls of ancient cathedrals. Deathlike the silence seemed,... | |
 | Lucy Henderson Humphrey - 1910 - 572 pagina’s
...Coast, and groves of orange and citron, Sweeps with majestic curve the river away to the eastward. They, too, swerved from their course; and, entering...cypress Met in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in mid-air Waved like banners that hang on the walls of ancient cathedrals. Deathlike the silence seemed,... | |
 | 1910 - 444 pagina’s
...Coast, and groves of orange and citron, Sweeps with majestic curve the river away to the eastward. 765 They, too, swerved from their course ; and, entering...cypress Met in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in midair 770 Waved like banners that hang on the walls of ancient cathedrals. Deathlike the silence seemed,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1910 - 686 pagina’s
...Coast, and groves of orange and citron, Sweeps with majestic curve the river away to the eastward. They, too, swerved from their course ; and entering...like a network of steel, extended in every direction. Met in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in mid-air Waved like banners that hang on the walla of ancient... | |
 | 1910 - 408 pagina’s
...Coast, and groves of orange and citron, * 5 Sweeps with majestic curve the river away to the eastward. They, too, swerved from their course; and, entering the Bayou of Plaquemine, Soon were last in a maze of sluggish and devious waters, Which, like a network of steel, extended in every direction.... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1912 - 702 pagina’s
...Coast, and groves of orange and citron, Sweeps with majestic curve the river away to the eastward. 100 They, too, swerved from their course; and, entering...cypress Met in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in mid-air 105 Waved like banners that hang on the walls of ancient cathedrals. Deathlike the silence... | |
 | Delphian Society, Chicago - 1913 - 614 pagina’s
...Coast, and groves of orange and citron, Sweeps with majestic curve the river away to the eastward. They, too, swerved from their course; and, entering...cypress Met in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in midair Waved like banners that hang on the walls of ancient cathedrals. Deathlike the silence seemed,... | |
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