Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume V. Nature. 1904. | | | | V. Trees: Flowers: Plants | | The Primeval Forest | | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
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THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, | |
| Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, | |
| Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, | |
| Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms. | |
| Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighboring ocean | 5 |
| Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest. | |
| This is the forest primeval; but where are the hearts that beneath it | |
| Leaped like the roe, when he hears in the woodland the voice of the huntsman? | | | | |
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