 | 1857 - 780 pages
...in a single day. 16 BROKEN MEMORIES. Broken memories of innny a heart Woven into one. — Skettey. When the hours of day are numbered, And the voices of the night Vt" . )v the better soul that slumbered, To a holy, calm delight. Then the forms of the departed Enter... | |
 | New York (N.Y.) - 1839 - 226 pages
...cares and woes, Seems less like earth than heaven. From the Knickerbocker. VOICES OF THE NIGHT. I. When the hours of Day are numbered. And the Voices...better soul that slumbered, To a holy, calm delight: 11. Ere the evening lamps are lighted, And, like phantoms grim and tall, Shadows from the fitful fire-light... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Digital images - 1839 - 174 pages
...shall 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...calm delight ; Ere the evening lamps are lighted, And, like phantoms grim and tall, Shadows from the fitful fire-light Dance upon the parlour wall ;... | |
 | American periodicals - 1839 - 584 pages
...Nicht Wake the belter soul that slumbered, To n holy, calm delight i Ere the evening lamps are lighted, And, like phantoms grim and tall, Shadows from the fitful fire-light Dance upon the parlor wall: in. Then the forms of the departed Enter at the open doors The beloved ones, the true-hearted,... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1839 - 614 pages
...'AP l A LU OF DUTs. WHEH the hours of Day sre numbered, And the Voices of the Nieht Wake the belter soul that slumbered, To a holy, calm delight: Ere the evening lamps are lighted, And, like phantoms grim and tall, Shadows from the fitful fire-light Dance upen the parlor wall: Then... | |
 | Edward Payson Weston - American poetry - 1840 - 224 pages
...In graceful numbers flow, Giving new zest to pleasure, FOOTSTEPS OF ANGELS. BY HENRY W. LONGFELLOW. WHEN the hours of day are numbered, And the voices...calm delight ; Ere the evening lamps are lighted, And, like phantoms grim and tall, Shadows from the fitful fire-light Dance upon the parlor wall ; Then... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1840 - 588 pages
...Learn to labor and to wait." — pp. 5-7. Or that exquisite and tender poem, the "Footsteps of Angels." "When the hours of Day are numbered, And the voices...calm delight ; " Ere the evening lamps are lighted, And, like phantoms grim and tall, Shadows from the fitful fire-light Dance upon the parlour wall ;... | |
 | Theology - 1840 - 424 pages
...readers another example, to confirm the opinion we have undertaken to express. " FOOTSTEPS OF ANGELS. " When the hours of Day are numbered, And the voices...calm delight ; " Ere the evening lamps are lighted, And, like shadows grim and tall, Shadows from the fitful fire-light Dance upon the parlour wall ; "... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1840 - 328 pages
...WHEN the hours of Day are number'd, And the voices of the Night Ere the evening lamps are lighted, And, like phantoms grim and tall, Shadows from the fitful firelight Dance upon the parlour wall ; Then the forms of the departed Enter at the open door ; The beloved ones, the true-hearted,... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1840 - 686 pages
...night Wake the better soul, that slumberM, To a holy calm delight. Ere the evening lamps are lighted, And, like phantoms grim and tall, Shadows from the fitful fire-light Dance upon the parlour wall, Then the forms of the departed Enter at the open door ! The beloved ones, the true-hearted,... | |
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WHEN the hours of Day are numbered, And the voices of the Night Wake the better soul, that slumbered, To a holy, calm delight; Ere the evening lamps are lighted, And, like phantoms grim and tall, Shadows from the fitful fire-light Dance upon the parlor... 
