 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - 608 pages
...we hare not for many a long day read anything more affecting than — " THE FOOTSTEPS OF AKGELS. " 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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 500 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...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,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 462 pages
...resolute and calm. 0 fear not in a world like this, And thou shalt know ere long, 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,... | |
 | Thomas Vincent Fosbery - 1850 - 416 pages
...Into the land of everlasting light. Cfir Communion of Saints ; FOOTSTEPS OF ANGELS. HW LONGFELLOW. WHEN the hours of day are numbered, And the voices...tall, Shadows from the fitful firelight Dance upon the parlour wall ; Then the forms of the departed Enter at the open door ; The beloved, the true-hearted,... | |
 | Garland - 1850 - 152 pages
...she holds with thee Mysterious intercourse, And though remembrance wakes a tear, FOOTSTEPS OF ANGELS. 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... | |
 | University magazine - 1850 - 816 pages
...day road anything more affecting than — " THE FOOTSTEPS OF ANGi:LS." " Wlu-ii the hours of day arc numbered, And the voices of the night Wake the better soul that slumbered To a holy calm delight : " К re I he evening lamps ¡ire lighted, Ami, like phantom* grim and tall, s:¡ailuws from the fitful... | |
 | 1850 - 560 pages
...by the Rev. Wii. BEXXETT, M.4., to which th« atm it in aone measure indebted. FOOTSTEPS OF ANGELS. WHEN the hours of Day are numbered, And the voices of the Night Wake the better sonl, that slumbered, To a holy, calm delight: Ere the evening lamps are lighted, And, like phantoms... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...world like this, And thou shalt know ere long, Know how sublime a thing it is 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,... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...inspire us with an ardent desire, to be more and flCiore occupied in this sacred work." — Sturm. WHEN the hours of day are numbered, And the voices...Shadows from the fitful fire-light Dance upon the parlour wall ; FOOTSTEPS OF ANGELS. 219 Then the forms of the departed Enter at the open door ; The... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1851 - 594 pages
...When the hours of Day arc mimber'd. And the voices of the Night Wake the better soul that slumber'd To a holy, calm delight ; Ere the evening lamps are...Shadows from the fitful fire-light Dance upon the parlor wall," — LONGFELLOW, Description of Washington's Head quarters at Cambridge. Fhillis, the black Poet.... | |
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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... 
