 Faded was she and old, when in disappointment it ended. Each succeeding year stole something away from her beauty, Leaving behind it, broader and deeper, the gloom and the shadow. Then there appeared and spread faint streaks of gray o'er her forehead,...  Evangeline: a tale [in verse]. - Page 137by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1848Full view - About this book
 | 1847 - 1230 pages
...ever-disappointing, task. " Fair was she and young when in hope began the long journey; Faded was slio and old when in disappointment it ended. Each succeeding...and the shadow. Then there appeared and spread faint strcuks of gray o'er her forehead, Dawn of another lire, that broke o'er her earthly horizon, *1s in... | |
 | American periodicals - 1848 - 572 pages
...and in hamlets, and all in vain : — Fair was she and yonng, when in hope began the long journey ; Faded was she and old, when in disappointment it ended....succeeding year stole something away from her beauty, As in the eastern sky the first faint streaks of the morning. As we have already intimated, this melancholy... | |
 | 1848 - 514 pages
...she came, and passed away unremembered. Fair was she and young, when in hope began the long journey ; Faded was she and old, when in disappointment it ended....shadow. Then there appeared and spread faint streaks of gray o'er her forehead, Dawn of another life, that broke o'er her earthly horizon, As in the eastern... | |
 | American periodicals - 1848 - 636 pages
...towns and in hamlets, and all in vain : Fair was she and young, when in hope began the long journey ; | Faded was she and old, when in disappointment it ended....shadow. Then there appeared and spread faint streaks of gray o'er her forehead, Dawn of another life that broke o'er her earthly horizon, As in the eastern... | |
 | English literature - 1848 - 476 pages
...she came, and passed away unremembered. Fair was she and young, when in hope began the long journey ; Faded was she and old, when in disappointment it ended....shadow. Then there appeared and spread faint streaks of gray o'er her forehead, Dawn of another life, that broke o'er her earthly horizon, As in the eastern... | |
 | American periodicals - 1848 - 602 pages
...she came, and paused away unremembered. Fair was she and young, when in hope began the long journey ; Faded was she and old, when in disappointment it ended....gloom and the shadow. Then there appeared and spread taint streaks of gray o'er her forehead, Dawn of another life, that broke o'er her earthly horizon,... | |
 | Education - 1848 - 398 pages
...again, " When in disappointment it ended " — When " There appeared and spread faint streaks of gray o'er her forehead, Dawn of another life, that broke...eastern sky the first faint streaks of the morning." ****** " As from a mountain-top, the rainy mists of the morning Roll away, and afar we behold the landscape... | |
 | 1848 - 1390 pages
...example, his heroine grows old, he says : — " Then there appeared and spread faint streaks of gray on her forehead, Dawn of another life, that broke o'er...eastern sky the first faint streaks of the morning." The comparison of the turning gray of the hair to the dawn of the morning, has a pleasing fancifulncss,... | |
 | 1848 - 722 pages
...example, his heroine grows old, he says : — " Then there appeared and spread faint streaks of gray on her forehead, Dawn of another life, that broke o'er...eastern sky the first faint streaks of the morning." The comparison of the turning gray of the hair to the dawn of the morning, has a pleasing fancifulness,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1848 - 538 pages
...broader and deeper, the gloom and the shadow. Then there appeared and spread faint streaks of gray o'er her forehead, Dawn of another life, that broke o'er her earthly horizon, As in the eastern skv the first faint streaks of the morning." — pp. 144, 145. At last, Evangeline finds a home among... | |
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