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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... "
The Humbler Poets: A Collection of Newspapers and Periodical Verse, 1870 to 1885 - Page 198
1885 - 459 pages
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Longfellow Day by Day

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1906 - 162 pages
...loved before ; For every soul is akin to me That dwells in the land of mystery ! The Golden Legend 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 Enter at the open door ; The beloved, the true-hearted, Come to visit...
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A Longfellow Calendar

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1906 - 156 pages
...loved before ; For every soul is akin to me That dwells in the land of mystery ! The Golden Legend 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 Enter at the open door ; The beloved, the true-hearted, Come to visit...
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Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of ..., Volume 125

Freemasons. Grand Lodge of the State of New York - 1906 - 598 pages
...this, then, be for us in this significant assembly an hour like that of which Longfellow wrote : " Ere the evening lamps are lighted, And like phantoms...Shadows from the fitful firelight Dance upon the parlor wall. " Then the forms of the departed Enter at the open door ; The beloved, the true-hearted, Come...
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The Stronger: A Play in One Act

August Strindberg - 1906 - 162 pages
...us nearer to the poet: '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, 'Then the forms...
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Longfellow Birthday Book

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1906 - 204 pages
...speak for yourself, John ? " 1 OOK, then, into thine heart, and write : Yes, into Life's deep stream 1 THE voices of the Night Wake the better soul, that slumbered, To a holy, calm delight. THE Being Beauteous Who unto my youth was given, More than all things else to lovfc me, And is now...
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An Evening with Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1907 - 116 pages
...heart for any fate; Still achieviing, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. FOOTSTEPS OF ANGELS. When the hours of Day are numbered And the voices...Shadows from the fitful firelight Dance upon the parlor wall; The beloved, the true-hearted, Come to visit me once more; He, the young and strong, who cherished...
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Life in the Wabash Valley: A Story of the Pioneers and Their Descendants ...

George Francis Coburn - 1907 - 380 pages
...can as fully enter into the feeling of our own poet Longfellow in his ode, "Footsteps of Angel's." When the hours of day are numbered, And the voices...Shadows from the fitful firelight Dance upon the parlor wall. Then the form of the departed Enters at the open door — The beloved one, the true hearted,...
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The Courtship of Miles Standish and Minor Poems

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1910 - 294 pages
...shalt know erelong, Know How sublime a thing it is 35 To suffer and be strong. FOOTSTEPS OF ANGELS0 WHEN the hours of Day are numbered, And the voices...Shadows from the fitful firelight Dance upon the parlor wall ; Then the forms of the departed Enter at the open door ; The beloved, the true-hearted, Come...
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English Poetry: In Three Volumes; With Introduction and Notes, Volume 42

1910 - 532 pages
...The welcome, the thrice-prayed for, the most fair, The best-beloved Night! 7/<5 FOOTSTEPS OF ANGELS WHEN the hours of Day are numbered, And the voices...Shadows from the fitful firelight Dance upon the parlor wall; Then the forms of the departed Enter at the open door; The beloved, the true-hearted, Come to...
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Carolyn: A Completed Life. Memorial of Carolyn Styles Adams

Washington Irving Lincoln Adams - 1910 - 126 pages
...Smith, who concluded his part of the services with the reading of Longfellow's FOOTSTEPS OF ANGELS. When the hours of Day are numbered, And the voices...Wake the better soul, that slumbered, To a holy, calm d< light; Ere the evening lamps are lighted. And, like phantoms grim and tall, Shadows from the fitful...
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