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" I felt her presence, by its spell of might, Stoop o'er me from above ; The calm, majestic presence of the Night, As of the one I love. I heard the sounds of sorrow and delight, The manifold, soft chimes, That fill the haunted chambers of the Night, Like... "
Voices of the Night - Page 3
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1843 - 144 pages
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Burton's Gentleman's Magazine and American Monthly Review, Volumes 6-7

William Evans Burton, Edgar Allan Poe - 1840 - 616 pages
...personified Night. Even in the first stanza this difficulty occurs — enfeebling all. The words — I heard the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through her marble halls — convey us to a palace tenanted by the sable-draperied, by the corporate Night. But the lines I...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 6

1840 - 326 pages
...personified Night. Even in the first stanza this difflculty occurs — enfeebling all. The words — I heard the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through her marble lralls — convey us to a palace tenanted by the sable-druperied, by the corporate Night. But the lines...
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The Southern Quarterly Review, Volume 1

Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - American periodicals - 1842 - 578 pages
...than the following " Hymn to the Night ? " Read it once, and its melody haunts the heart lorever : " HYMN TO THE NIGHT. I heard the trailing garments of...the Night Sweep through her marble halls ! I saw her sahle skirts all fringed with light From the celestial walls ! I felt her presence, by its spell of...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volumes 16-17

1849 - 608 pages
...steps on the threshold of the inn, whence a jocund peal was ringing, we paused, and suddenly — " We heard the trailing garments of the night Sweep through her marble halls ; We saw her sable skirts all fringed with light From her celestial walls ; We felt her presence, by...
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Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 17

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1849 - 608 pages
...steps on the threshold of the inn, whence a jocund peal was ringing, we paused, and suddenly — " We heard the trailing garments of the night Sweep through her marble halls ; We saw lier sable skirts all fringed with light From her celestial walls ; We felt her presence,...
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The Living Authors of America: 1st ser

Thomas Powell - American literature - 1850 - 382 pages
...there is an instance of bad taste in the selection of metaphors, which rarely happens to our author. " I heard the trailing garments of the night Sweep through...all fringed with light From the celestial walls." He redeems this artificial imagery by the following verse : " I felt her presence, by its spell of...
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The Living Authors of America: 1st ser

Thomas Powell - American literature - 1850 - 384 pages
...there is an instance of bad taste in the selection of metaphors, which rarely happens to our author. BI heard the trailing garments of the night Sweep through...all fringed with light From the celestial walls." He redeems this artificial imagery by the following verse : " I felt her presence, by its spell of...
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The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...forms of sorrow and delight, All solemn Voices of the Night, That can soothe thee, or affright, — HYMN TO THE NIGHT. I HEARD the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through her marble halla ! I saw her sable skirts all fringed with light From the celestial walls ! I felt her presence,...
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Voices of the Night, and Other Poems

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1852 - 258 pages
...affright, — Be these henceforth thy theme." HYMN TO THE NIGHT. 'A<77ra<T/jj, rpi'AXiorof. I IIEAED the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through her marble halls ! I felt her presence, by its spell of might, Stoop o'er me from ahove ; The calm, majestic presence of...
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Janet Mowbray, Volume 3; Volume 503

Caroline Grautoff - 1854 - 332 pages
...Printer to HBH I'IUKT Allifii. Kuiiurt Sltect. JANET MOWBRAY. CHAPTER I. He's coming again ! Scotch Song. I heard the trailing garments of the night Sweep through...skirts all fringed with light From the celestial walls ! From the cool cisterns of the midnight air My spirit drank repose ; The fountain of perpetual peace...
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