 THE shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device, Excelsior ! His brow was sad ; his eye beneath Flashed like a falchion from its sheath, And like a silver...  Student and Family Miscellany - Página 31852Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 páginas
...fulfilled The aspiration of my youth, to build Some tower of song with lofty parapet. (1. 1 -4) 21 The shades of night were falling fast. As through...village passed A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, 29 half-way up the hill. I see the Past 277 POETRY QUOTATIONS 278 With smoking roofs, soft bells, and... | |
 | John March - 1993 - 888 páginas
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 | Gorton Carruth - 1993 - 772 páginas
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 | James Thurber - 1996 - 1032 páginas
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 | Peter Harder - 1996 - 612 páginas
...so, one must also think that to strive for that goal is an adequate substitute for reaching it. The youth who bore 'mid snow and ice a banner with the strange device "excelsior" did not specify a point he wanted to reach, only a direction he wanted to take — and... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 páginas
...in the infinite meadows of heaven Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels. 6485 'Excelsior' The shades of night were falling fast,...'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device, Excelslor! 6486 'Excelslor' 'Try not the Pass!' the old man said; 'Dark lowers the tempest overbead.'... | |
 | Jonathan D. Spence - 1998 - 308 páginas
...Longfellow's "Excelsior" of 1842. No one in 1869 would have needed reminding of the poem's most famous stanza: The shades of night were falling fast, As through...'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device Excelsior! The pidgin English version, replacing the Latin "excelsior" or "higher" with the pidgin... | |
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