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
| Spring flowers, S. P. - 1849 - 178 páginas
...the dear God that loveth us, He made and loveth all. Coleridge. EXCELSIOR. ASPIRATION AND PROGRESS. The shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village past, A youth, who bore, 'midst snow and ice, A banner with the strange device, His brow was sad ;... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 462 páginas
...seal ; And that smile, like sunshine, dart Into many a sunless heart, For a smile of God thou art. EXCELSIOR THE shades of night were falling fast, As...'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device, Excelsior ! His brow was sad ; his eye beneath, Flashed like a faulchion from its sheath, And like... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 500 páginas
...doth seal ; And that smile, like sunshine, dart Into many a sunless heart, For a smile of God thou an. EXCELSIOR. • THE shades of night were falling fast,...'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device Excelsior ! His brow was sad ; his eye beneath, Flashed like a faulchion from its sheath, And like... | |
| Salem Town - 1850 - 374 páginas
...beautifully represented under the figure of a noble youth, climbing the lofty Alps at the close of day.] 1. THE shades of night were falling fast, As through...'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device, — Excelsior ! 2. His brow was sad ; his eye beneath, Flashed like a falchion from its sheath, And... | |
| John Mather Austin - 1850 - 326 páginas
...joy. I exhort the young to adopt the noble motto of the coat-of-arms of New York — " EXCELSIOB !" " The shades of night were falling fast, As through...'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device, EXCELSIOR !" Let it be the aim of every youth to lift aloft this glorious banner, and soar upward to... | |
| University magazine - 1850 - 816 páginas
...star falling from the clime he had gained — all, all, is exquisitely beautiful : — " EXCKLSIOR. " The shades of night were falling fast, As through...'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device — • 'Excelsior!' " His brow was sad ; his eye beneath F!a.-hed like a falchion from its sheath... | |
| Garland - 1850 - 152 páginas
...work alone ; For, while the worlds about the sun revolve, God's heart and mind are ever with his own. EXCELSIOR! The shades of night were falling fast,...youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, A banner with this strange device— Excelsior ! His brow was sad—his eye beneath Flashed like a falchion from... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - 608 páginas
...— all, all, is exquisitely beautiful: — " EXCELSIOR. " The shades of night were falling fast, AB 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... | |
| 1851 - 344 páginas
...Lord, And with untired humility forbore To speed their errands by the wings they wore. Wordsworth. EXCELSIOR. THE shades of night were falling fast,...'mid snow and ice, A banner, with the strange device, Excelsior ! Hie brow was sad; his eye beneath Flashed like a fauichion from its sheath, And like a... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 páginas
...seal ; And that smile, like sunshine, dart Into many a sunless heart, For a smile of God thou art. EXCELSIOR THE shades of night were falling fast, As...'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 lite a... | |
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