| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Henry Ketcham - 1901 - 380 pages
...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 wall ; Then the forms of the departed Enter at the open door ; The beloved, the true-hearted,... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1902 - 744 pages
...know ere long, Know how sublime a thing it is To MI !!'cr and be strong. FOOTSTEPS OF ANGELS. WEEN the hours of Day are numbered, And the voices of the...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... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1893 - 924 pages
...readest this brief psalm, As one by one thy hopes depart, Be resolute and calm. FOOTSTEPS OF ANGELS WOES the hours of Day are numbered, And the voices of the...Night Wake the better soul, that slumbered, To a holy, culm delight; bhftilows from the fitful firelight Dance upon the parlor wall; Ere the evening lamps... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1903 - 440 pages
...heart for any fate ; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait. 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 ;... | |
| Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - American literature - 1903 - 600 pages
...heart for any fate ; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. 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 firelight Dance upon the parlor wall ; Then... | |
| Charles Herbert Sylvester - 1903 - 328 pages
...visited the green earth, And took the flowers away. jfootsteps of angels HENRY WADSWORTH 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 firelight Dance upon the parlor wall; Then... | |
| James Martin Peebles - Spiritualism - 1903 - 394 pages
...awake, and in another world. Dim faces of the dead and of the absent Come floating up before me." ***** "When the hours of day are numbered, And the voices of the night Wake the better soal that slumber'd, To a holy, calm delight ; Ere the evening lamps are lighted, And like phantoms... | |
| James Martin Peebles - Spiritualism - 1903 - 422 pages
...night Wake the better soul that slumber'd, 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 wall — Then the forms of the departed Enter at the open door ; The beloved ones, the true... | |
| English poetry - 1904 - 1058 pages
...not the peace that over Eden brooded, But that which triumphed in Gethsemane. 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 firelight Dance upon the parlor wall ; Then... | |
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