 | Joseph Beckham Cobb - American literature - 1858 - 422 pages
...discarded as caprice may suggest, or as invention may hold out. It is entitled, " 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 ; "... | |
 | Presbyterianism - 1858 - 664 pages
...Never ! Thou'rt with me waking— dreaming — ever I THE SPEAKING DEAD. BT HWIi IN 1,1 1:1 I 1 1 \v . When the hours of day are numbered, And the voices of the night Wake the better soul that -.lumbered, To a holy, calm delight ; Ere the evening lamps ore lighted, And, like phantoms grim ntul... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1858 - 752 pages
...the green earth, And took the flowers away. FOOTBTEFS OF A NGELS. When the hours of Day are unmbered, And the voices of the Night Wake the better soul, that slumbered, To a holy, calm delight ; Ero the evening lamps are lighted, And, like phantoms grim and tall, Shadows from the fitful fire-light... | |
 | Jeremiah Chaplin - Old age in literature - 1859 - 326 pages
...when all beside is riven — That Light shines down to man direct from heaven 1 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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1859 - 724 pages
...thou shalt know ere long, Know how sublime a thing it is To suffei 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 ;... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1860 - 514 pages
...thou shalt know erelong, 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, Then the forms of the departed Enter at the open door ; The beloved,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Gilbert - American poetry - 1860 - 448 pages
...angel visited the green earth, FOOTSTEPS OF ANGELS. WHEN the hours of Day are numbered, And the voiees of the Night Wake the better soul, that slumbered,...calm delight ; Ere the evening lamps are lighted, And, like phantoms grim and tall, Then the forms of the departed Enter at the open door; The beloved,... | |
 | G M. Sterne - 1860 - 316 pages
...warm, Have turn'd to dust that cheek of bloom, Those eyes of light, that angel form?'' SHAXSPEARE. " When the hours of day are numbered, And the voices of the night, Wake the soul that slumbered, To a holy calm delight. " Ere the evening lamps are lighted, And, like phantoms,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1860 - 506 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,... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1860 - 802 pages
...Night Wake the better soul that slumber'd To a holy, calm" delight ; Ere the evening lamps are lighted, parlor wall," — LONGFELLOW, Description of Washington's Ilcail quarters at Cambridge. Phillls, the... | |
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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... 
