 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Calendars - 1906 - 162 pages
...loved before ; For every soul is akin to me That dwells in the land of mystery ! The Golden Legend 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... | |
 | Daniel Harvey Hill, Frank Lincoln Stevens, Charles William Burkett - Readers - 1906 - 424 pages
...expresses 25 a universal sentiment in the simplest and most melodious manner.— GEORGE wILLIAM CURTIS. 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 firelight 5 Dance upon the parlor wall; Then... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Birthday books - 1906 - 204 pages
...speak for yourself, John ? " 1 OOK, then, into thine heart, and write : Yes, into Life's deep stream 1 THE voices of the Night Wake the better soul, that slumbered, To a holy, calm delight. THE Being Beauteous Who unto my youth was given, More than all things else to lovfc me, And is now... | |
 | August Strindberg - 1906 - 162 pages
...us nearer to the poet: 'When the hours of day are numbered, And the soul-like voice of night Wakes the better soul that slumbered To a holy calm delight; 'Ere the evening lamps are lighted, And like spectres grim and tall, Shadows from the fitful firelight Dance upon the parlor wall, 'Then... | |
 | Freemasons. Grand Lodge of the State of New York - 1906 - 598 pages
...significant assembly an hour like that of which Longfellow wrote : " Ere the evening lamps are lighted, And like phantoms grim and tall, Shadows from the fitful firelight Dance upon the parlor wall. " Then the forms of the departed Enter at the open door ; The beloved, the true-hearted,... | |
 | George Francis Coburn - 1907 - 380 pages
...can as fully enter into the feeling of our own poet Longfellow in his ode, "Footsteps of Angel's." When the hours of day are numbered, And the voices...holy 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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1907 - 116 pages
...heart for any fate; Still achieviing, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. FOOTSTEPS OF ANGELS. When the hours of Day are numbered And the voices...holy calm delight. Ere the evening lamps are lighted, And, like phantoms grim and tall, Shadows from the fitful firelight Dance upon the parlor wall; The... | |
 | American poetry - 1910 - 532 pages
...The welcome, the thrice-prayed for, the most fair, The best-beloved Night! 7/<5 FOOTSTEPS OF ANGELS WHEN the hours of Day are numbered, And the voices...holy, 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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1910 - 294 pages
...shalt know erelong, Know How sublime a thing it is 35 To suffer and be strong. FOOTSTEPS OF ANGELS0 WHEN the hours of Day are numbered, And the voices...holy, 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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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... 
