 | 1849 - 44 pages
...Or read it at the gathering of these still summer twilights, " When the-hours of day are number'd, And the voices of the night Wake the better soul that slumber'd Then, wheel your arm chair up to the open window ; the window that looks upon flowers, and arching... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - Poetry - 2000 - 678 pages
...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 of thine... | |
 | Samuel Longfellow - Poets, American - 2004 - 481 pages
...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 the... | |
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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, Come to visit me once more... 
