| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 568 pages
...thou shalt know ere long, 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, Shadows from the fitful fire-light Dance upon the parlour wall ;... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 264 pages
...shalt know ere long, Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong. FOOTSTEPS OP ANGELS. WHE^ 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 parlour-wall ;... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1856 - 432 pages
...shalt know ere long; Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong. FOOTSTEPS OF ANUELS. WHKN the hours of Day are numbered, And the voices of the...holy, calm delight; Ere the evening lamps are lighted, Anil, like phantoms grim and tall, Shadows from the fitful fire-light Dance upon the parlour wall ;... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1856 - 810 pages
...thou shalt know ere long, 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 of the Night Wake the hetter soul, that slumbered, To a holy, calm delight ; Ere the evening lamps are lighted, And, like... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...Wake the hetter soul,1 that slumhered, 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 parlour wall ; FOOTSTEPS OF ANOELS. 273 Then the forms of the departed Enter at the open door ; The... | |
| Songs - 1856 - 712 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 parlour-wall ; Then the forms of the departed Enter at the open door ; The beloved ones, the true-hearted,... | |
| J. B. Packard, J. S. Loveland - Hymns, English - 1856 - 104 pages
...Wuki- the better soul Unit si umbered To a ho - ly, calm delight, 2. 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 ones, the true hearted,... | |
| Thomas Vincent Fosbery - Christian poetry - 1857 - 436 pages
...the land of everlasting light. 170 ir!ii- fflommuntott of Saints; FOOTSTEPS OF ANGELS. HW 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 parlour wall : Then... | |
| 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... | |
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