 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1855 - 344 pages
...tough roots of the Larch-Tree, Closely sewed the bark together, Bound it closely to the framework. " Give me of your balm, O Fir-Tree ! Of your balsam...not enter, That the river may not wet me ! " And the Fir- Tree, tall and sombre, Sobbed through all its robes of darkness, Rattled like a shore with pebbles,... | |
 | 1855 - 714 pages
...tough roots of the larch-tree, Closely sewed the bark together, Bound it closely to the framework. '•Give me of your balm, O Fir-Tree! Of your balsam and your resin, So to close the s«am<' together That the water may not enter, That the river may not wet me !" And the fir-tree, tall... | |
 | American literature - 1855 - 684 pages
...roots, O Tamarack ! Of your fibrous roots, O Larch Tree ! My canoe to bind together, So to bind the ends together That the water may not enter, That the river may not wet me !" And the larch, with all its fibres, Shivered in the air of morning. , Touched his forehead with its tassels,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Folklore - 1855 - 346 pages
...roots, O Tamarack ! Of your -fibrous roots, O Larch-Tree! My canoe to bind together, So to bind the ends together That the water may not enter, That the river may not wet me ! " And the Larch, with all its fibres, Shivered in the air of morning, Touched his forehead with its tassels,... | |
 | American literature - 1855 - 682 pages
...larch-tree, Closely sowed the bark together, Bound it closely to the framework. "Give me of your balm, О Fir-Tree! Of your balsam and your resin, So to close the seams together That the water mny not enter, That the river may not vet me !" And the fir-tree, tall and sombre, Sobbed through all... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1856 - 346 pages
...tough roots of the Larch-Tree , Closely sewed the bark together, Bound it closely to the framework. " Give me of your balm , O Fir-Tree ! Of your balsam...to close the seams together That the water may not entet , That the river may not wet me | " And the Fir-Tree, tall and sombre, Sobbed through all its... | |
 | Christianity - 1856 - 538 pages
...I shaped them, Of your fibrous roots, O LarchTree ! My canoe to bind together, So to bind the ends together That the water may not enter, That the river may not wet me ! " And the Larch, with all its fibres, Shivered in the air of morning, Touched his forehead with its tassels,... | |
 | Reformed Church - 1856 - 670 pages
...strong and pliant branches, My canoe to make more steady, Make more strong and firm beneath me."— " That the water may not enter, That the river may not wet me." Thus far the verse of the two poems — rhymeless trochaic dimeter with Oriental repetitions — is... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Indians of North America - 1857 - 324 pages
...Closely sewed the bark together, Bound it closely to the framework. " Give me of your balm, O Fir- Tree ! Of your balsam and your resin, So to close the seams...not enter, That the river may not wet me ! " And the Fir- Tree, tall and sombre, Sobbed through all its robes of darkness, Rattled like a shore with pebbles,... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Readers (Elementary) - 1857 - 242 pages
...sewed the bark together, . Bound it closely to the framework. " Give me of your balm, O Fir Tree ! Of your balsam and your resin, So to close the seams...not enter, That the river may not wet me ! " And the Fir Tree, tall and sombre, Sobbed through all its robes of darkness, Rattled like a shore with pebbles,... | |
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Shivered in the air of morning, Touched his forehead with its tassels, Said, with one long sigh of sorrow, ' 
