Practical Guide to English Versification / With a Compendious Dictionary of Rhymes, an Examination / of Classical Measures, and Comments Upon Burlesque and / Comic Verse, Vers de Société, and Song-writing

by Tom Hood

By the Baltic."

—Longfellow, To a Danish Song-Book.

7. "All things in earth and air

Bound were by magic spell

Never to do him harm;

Even the plants and stones,

All save the mistletoe,

The sacred mistletoe."

—Longfellow, Tegner's Drapa.

8. "Give me of your bark, O birch-tree!