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
| John Celivergos Zachos - 1851 - 570 páginas
...house became more a scene of real business, than of airy display and angry vituperation. ANOSTM<>DS , " EXCELSIOR " THE shades of night were falling fast,...'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device, " Excelsior ! " And like a silver clarion rung The accents 6f that unknown tongue, " Excelsior 1 "... | |
| Samuel Prout Newcombe - 1851 - 398 páginas
...approve. Such to parents are a treasure, Life with them is always pleasure. llth Week. SATURDAY. Poetry. 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 a... | |
| 1851 - 458 páginas
...their goldeu wings, and look towards the throne that the vUioned prophet beheld in the Apocalypse, The shades of night were falling fast, As through...'mid snow and ice, A banner, with the strange device, Excelsior ! His brow was sod ; his eye beneath Flashed like a faulchion from its sheath, And like a... | |
| William Draper Swan - 1851 - 442 páginas
...may not roam, — For Hea\en's own glory shines around thy home. LESSON LV1II. Excelsior. LONGFELLOW. 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 Flashed like a falchion from its sheath, And like a... | |
| Henry Bartlett Maglathlin - 1851 - 328 páginas
...that haunts me yet Of Patience nursing Hope — the angel and the child ! " EXCELSIOR. HW LONGFELLOW. THE shades of night were falling fast, As through...mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device, Excelsior ! And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior ! In happy... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 páginas
...it boots not to look backwards. Forwards ! forwards ! forwards ! should be one's motto." — Arnold. 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, Flashed like a faulchion from its sheath, And like... | |
| 1851 - 88 páginas
...the progress of the soul In a higher sphere. (Set to music and puUisJuid by Firth, Hall & Pond, N. K) The shades of night were falling fast, As through...A 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 its... | |
| Stephen Watkins Clark - 1851 - 204 páginas
...breath ; With accents of kindness, then cheer her lone way E'en to the dark valley of death. — IB. IX. The shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore through snow and ice A banner, with the strange device — Excelsior ! In happy homes he saw the light... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1852 - 520 páginas
...doth seal ; And that smile, like sunshine, dan Into many a sunless bean, 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 a... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1852 - 256 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,...'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device Excelsior ! ISO MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. His brow was sad; Ids eye beneath, 1 'lashed like a faulchion... | |
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