 | HENRY HOWE - 1859
...When the hours of day are n umber'd, And the voices of the Night Wake the better soul that slumber'd To a holy, calm delight; Ere the evening lamps are...grim and tall, Shadows from the fitful fire-light Danee upon the parlor-wall; Then the forms of the departed Enter at the open door ; The beloved ones,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 784 pages
...the hours of Day are number' d. And the voices of the 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, fihadows from the fitful fire-light Dance upon the parlor-wall ; Then the forma of the departed Enter... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1860
...shalt know erelong, Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong. FOOTSTEPS Otf 'ANGELS. WHEN the hours of Day are numbered, And the voices...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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1860
...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...lamps are lighted, And, like phantoms grim and tall, Then the forms of the departed Enter at the open door ; The beloved, the true-hearted, Come to visit... | |
 | Allen Hayden Weld - 1860 - 128 pages
...heart's first fragrance unto Heaven! 1 Eule I, Eem. 8. 2 Eule XIV. FOOTSTEPS OF ANGELS.—[LONGFELLOW.] When the hours of Day are numbered, And the voices...holy calm delight; Ere the evening lamps are lighted, 5 And, like phantoms grim and tall, Shadows from the fitful fire-light Dance upon the parlor-wall;... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Gilbert - 1860 - 417 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,...lamps are lighted, And, like phantoms grim and tall, Then the forms of the departed Enter at the open door; The beloved, the true-hearted, Come to visit... | |
 | Schoolroom poetry, S. R. - 1860
...WHEN the hours of day are number'd And the voices of the night Wake the better soul that slumber' d, To a holy, calm delight ; Ere the evening lamps are...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... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1860
...When the hours of Day are nuraber'd, And the voices of the Night Wake the better soul that slumber'd heavy wei % . wall," — LONGFELLOW, Description of Washington's Ilcail quarters at Cambridge. Phillls, the black... | |
 | G M. Sterne - 1860
...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 - 1861
...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...Shadows from the fitful fire-light Dance upon the parlour wall ; Then the forms of the departed Enter at the open door ; The beloved, the true-hearted,... | |
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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... 
