| 1847 - 540 páginas
...silence now Is brooding, like a gentle spirit, o'er The still and pulseless world. GD PRENTICE. 31. Ere the evening lamps are lighted, And, like phantoms grim and tall, Shadows from the fitful fireside Dance upon the parlour wall. HW LONGFELLOW. 32. Night's starry host gather'd in brightness... | |
| Cotesworth Pinckney - 1848 - 142 páginas
...hither — FOOTSTEPS OF ANGELS. WHEN the hours of day are numbered, And the voice of the night Wakes the better soul that slumbered, To a holy, calm delight...of the departed Enter at the open door, The beloved ones — the true-hearted, Come to visit me once more ; He, the young and strong, who cherished Noble... | |
| 1848 - 460 páginas
...the night Wake tiie hetter soul that slumtiered, To a holy, calm delight— Ere the evening lamps arc lighted, And, like phantoms grim and tall, Shadows,...fire-light, Dance upon the parlor wall — Then the forme of the departed Enter at the open door; The ileloved ones, the true hearted, Come to visit me... | |
| 1851 - 824 páginas
...of the first ¡s the universally popular poem of " The Footsteps of Angels." The scene begins with "And like phantoms grim and tall, Shadows from the fitful firelight Dance upon the parlor wall." This is indicated in the back ground. The middle ground represents " The. forms of the departed." In... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - 608 páginas
...we hare not for many a long day read anything more affecting than — " THE FOOTSTEPS OF AKGELS. " U v c <\. \$`u߂prJ M I y 9$ rbFr4T ^:\X e IpM !kaŹdX us once more. " He, the young and strong, who cherished Noble longings for the strife, By the road-side... | |
| 1850 - 604 páginas
...have not for many a long day read anything more affecting than — ••Tin: FOOTSTEPS OF AUGELS. " When the hours of day are numbered, And the voices...door, The beloved, the true-hearted, Come to visit us once more. " He, the young and strong, who cherished Noble longings for the strife, By the road-side... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 462 páginas
...resolute and calm. 0 fear not in a world like this, And thou shalt know ere long, FOOTSTEPS OF ANGELS. WHEN the hours of Day are numbered, And the voices...Shadows from the fitful fire-light Dance upon the parlour wall ; Then the forms of the departed Enter at the open door ; The beloved, the true-hearted,... | |
| Thomas Vincent Fosbery - 1850 - 416 páginas
...Into the land of everlasting light. Cfir Communion of Saints ; FOOTSTEPS OF ANGELS. HW LONGFELLOW. WHEN the hours of day are numbered, And the voices...tall, Shadows from the fitful firelight Dance upon the parlour wall ; Then the forms of the departed Enter at the open door ; The beloved, the true-hearted,... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 500 páginas
...thou shalt know ere long, Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong. FOOTSTEPS OF ANGELS. WHEN the hours of Day are numbered, And the voices...Shadows from the fitful fire-light Dance upon the parlour wall ; Then the forms of the departed Enter at the open door ; The beloved, the true-hearted,... | |
| Garland - 1850 - 152 páginas
...she holds with thee Mysterious intercourse, And though remembrance wakes a tear, FOOTSTEPS OF ANGELS. When the hours of day are numbered, And the voices...better soul that slumbered, To a holy calm delight, Then the forms of the departed Enter at the open door; The beloved, the true-hearted, Come to visit... | |
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