 | National Conference on Social Welfare - Charities - 1888 - 508 pages
...abundance as everlasting as human need, with a succession as enduring as the generations of men. " I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I...keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song ? " Long, long afterward in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke ; And the song, from beginning... | |
 | Mormons - 1901 - 778 pages
...his friends look upon him as the guiding star to their lives. Longfellow beautifully pictured this in the "Arrow and the Song." "I shot an arrow Into the...and strong. That It can follow the flight of song. "Long, long afterward. In an oak, I found the arrow, still unbroke, And the song from beginning to... | |
 | John Rogers Rees - Authors - 1889 - 314 pages
...reminiscences!"—WALT WHITMAN. MOST of us know that charming little poem of Longfellow's — The A rrow and the Song : " I shot an arrow into the air, It...and strong, That it can follow the flight of song ? I " Long, long afterwards, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke ; And the song from beginning... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1889 - 254 pages
...1889, By HOUGHTON, MlFFLIN & Co. All rights reserved. THE ARROW AND THE SONG. I shot an arrow into tie air, It fell to earth, I knew not where ; For, so...and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke; And the song, from beginning to end,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1889 - 264 pages
...Arabs, And as silently steal away. THE ARROW AND THE SONG. I SHOT an arrow into the air, It fell to the earth, I knew not where ; For, so swiftly it flew,...and strong, That it can follow the flight of song ? Long, long afterward, in an oak, I found the arrow, still unbroke : And the song, from beginning... | |
 | William James Linton, Richard Henry Stoddard - English poetry - 1890 - 404 pages
...LONGFELLOW. 1807 — 1882. THE ARROW AND THE SONG. I shot an arrow into the air ; It fell to earth, 1 knew not where : For, so swiftly it flew, the sight...and strong, That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke ; And the song, from beginning to... | |
 | First Unitarian Church of Oakland, Calif. Ladies - Quotations, English - 1891 - 96 pages
...it from an enemy of spirituality into a means of grace and spiritual advancement. — HB stowe. 66 THE ARROW AND THE SONG. I shot an arrow into the air,...and strong, That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke ; And the song, from beginning to... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Europe - 1893 - 360 pages
...The horologe of Eternity Sayeth this incessantly, — ' ' Forever — never ! Never — forever ! " THE ARROW AND THE SONG. I SHOT an arrow into the air,...and strong, That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke ; And the song, from beginning to... | |
 | Children - 1893 - 112 pages
...the foot of thy crags, 0 Sea! But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me. THE ARROW AND THE SONG. I shot an arrow into the air,...has sight so keen and strong, That it can follow the flighj; of song ? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke; And the song, from... | |
 | Henry Clay Trumbull - Duty - 1894 - 216 pages
...started a train of influences which shall have no end. This it is which is Longfellow's thought: " I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I...keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song ? " Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke; And the song, from beginning... | |
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I SHOT an arrow into the air, It fell to earth I knew not where ; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where ; For who has sight so keen and strong, That it... 
