...flight, The welcome, the thrice-prayed for, the mo.it fair, The best-beloved Night! FOOTSTEPS OF ANGELS3 And, like phantoms grim and tall, Shadows from the fitful firelight Dance upon the parlor wall; ! One...

...To your couch at nightfall go, Are their swift wings heard to rustle? Tell me! for you know." (475) the hours of day are numbered, And the voices of the...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...

...on the part of Mr. LONGFELLOW from himself (Mr. Poe.) Here is one, however, which he has overlooked: lan Poe parlor wall.'''' In a poem called "The Sleeper," by EA POE, and which we first saw a great many years...

...thought. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow understood it when, in his "Footsteps of the Angds," he wrote — "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 Knter at the open door; The beloved, and the true hearted, Come to...

...1845, Poe cites what he thinks (less improbably than usual) was a borrowing in "Footsteps of Angels": And, like phantoms grim and tall, Shadows from the fitful fire-light Dance upon the parlor wall. 26 Campbell (Poems, p. 212) compared to this The Tempest, I, ii, 407: "The fringed curtains...

...experiences. EVENING SHADOWS. 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, —...