The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. With Prefatory Notice, [and] ... Engravings on SteelGall & Inglis, 1855 - 640 pages |
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... wall , with gestures fantastic , Darted his own huge shadow , and vanished away into darkness . Faces , clumsily carved in oak , on the back of his arm - chair , Laughed in the flickering light ; and the pewter plates on the dresser ...
... wall , with gestures fantastic , Darted his own huge shadow , and vanished away into darkness . Faces , clumsily carved in oak , on the back of his arm - chair , Laughed in the flickering light ; and the pewter plates on the dresser ...
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... walls the necklace of pearls was inwoven . " Silenced , but not convinced , when the story was ended the black- smith Stood like a man who fain would speak but findeth no language ; All his thoughts were congealed into lines on his face ...
... walls the necklace of pearls was inwoven . " Silenced , but not convinced , when the story was ended the black- smith Stood like a man who fain would speak but findeth no language ; All his thoughts were congealed into lines on his face ...
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... walls of heaven , and o'er the horizon Titan - like stretches its hundred hands upon mountain and meadow , Seizing the rocks and the rivers , and piling huge shadows together . Broader and ever broader it gleamed on the roofs of the ...
... walls of heaven , and o'er the horizon Titan - like stretches its hundred hands upon mountain and meadow , Seizing the rocks and the rivers , and piling huge shadows together . Broader and ever broader it gleamed on the roofs of the ...
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... walls of ancient cathedrals . Deathlike the silence seemed , and unbroken , save by the herons Home to their roosts in the cedar - trees returning at sunset , Or by the owl , as he greeted the moon with demoniac laughter . Lovely the ...
... walls of ancient cathedrals . Deathlike the silence seemed , and unbroken , save by the herons Home to their roosts in the cedar - trees returning at sunset , Or by the owl , as he greeted the moon with demoniac laughter . Lovely the ...
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... walls of the forest . They who dwell there have named it the Eden of Louisiana . " And with these words of cheer they arose and continued their journey . Softly the evening came . The sun from the western horizon Like a magician ...
... walls of the forest . They who dwell there have named it the Eden of Louisiana . " And with these words of cheer they arose and continued their journey . Softly the evening came . The sun from the western horizon Like a magician ...
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Acadian angels art thou BARTOLOME beautiful behold Belfry of Bruges bell beneath birds blessed breast breath bright brooklet child CHISPA clouds CRUZADO dark dead death DON CARLOS dost dream earth Edenhall ELSIE Evangeline eyes face fair father fear flowers forest FRIAR CUTHBERT Gipsy gleam gold golden Golden Legend GOTTLIEB Grand-Pré grave hand hear heard heart heaven Hoheneck holy HYPOLITO king land LARA light lips look Lord loud LUCIFER maiden Minnesinger monks moon night Nils Juel Nova Scotia o'er PADRE CURA pass poem Pray prayer PRECIOSA priest PRINCE HENRY rise river round sail Saint Salern sang shadows shalt shining silent singing sleep soft song sorrow soul sound stand star stood sweet Tharaw thee thine thou art thou hast thought unto URSULA VICTORIAN village voice walls wandered wave wild wind window words youth
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Page 189 - Tis of the wave and not the rock ; 'Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale ! In spite of rock and tempest's roar, In spite of false lights on the shore. Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea ! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with th.ee.
Page 409 - The shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device, Excelsior ! His brow was sad ; his eye beneath, Flashed like a falchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior...
Page 49 - And with them the being beauteous, Who unto my youth was given, More than all things else to love me, And is now a saint in heaven. With a slow and noiseless footstep, Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine.
Page 48 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Page 321 - But the father answered never a word, A frozen corpse was he. Lashed to the helm, all stiff and stark, With his face turned to the skies, The lantern gleamed through the gleaming snow On his fixed and glassy eyes. Then the maiden clasped her hands and prayed That saved she might be : And she thought of Christ who stilled the wave, On the Lake of Galilee.
Page 410 - There in the twilight cold and gray, Lifeless, but beautiful, he lay, And from the sky, serene and far, A voice fell, like a falling star — Excelsior!
Page 48 - He gazed at the flowers with tearful eyes, He kissed their drooping leaves ; It was for the Lord of Paradise He bound them in his sheaves. "My Lord has need of these flowerets gay," The Reaper said, and smiled; "Dear tokens of the earth are they, Where he was once a child. "They shall all bloom in fields of light, Transplanted by my care, And saints, upon their garments white, These sacred blossoms wear.
Page 5 - Homeward serenely she walked with God's benediction upon her. When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
Page 320 - Then leaped her cable's length. 'Come hither! come hither! my little daughter, And do not tremble so; For I can weather the roughest gale, That ever wind did blow.
Page 201 - ALL are architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time : Some with massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme. Nothing useless is, or low ; Each thing in its place is best ; And what seems but idle show Strengthens and supports the rest.