 EXCELSIOR. 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...  Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Page 36by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1880 - 417 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1842 - 144 pages
...through sorrow, wrong, and ruth, In thy heart the dew of youth, On thy lips the smile of truth. O, that dew, like balm, shall steal Into wounds, that...with the strange device Excelsior ! His brow was sad ; his eye beneath, Flashed like a faulchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents... | |
 | 1842 - 818 pages
...Bear through sorrow, wrong and roth. In thy heart the dew of youth, On thy lips the smile of truth. O, that dew, like balm, shall steal Into wounds, that...dart Into many a sunless heart, For a smile of God tlion art. KENBV W. LONGFELLOW. THREE SABBATH MORNINGS. Suggested on reading " Three Saturday ffightt,"... | |
 | 1842 - 574 pages
...his labors to the graver, and thus share in the fame of the poet. 1842.] Longfellow's Poems. 243 " EXCELSIOR. " THE shades of night were falling fast,...strange device, . Excelsior ! " His brow was sad; his eye beneath, Flashed like a faulcliion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1843 - 570 pages
...through sorrow, wrong, and ruth, In thy heart the dew of youth, On thy lips the smile of truth. O, that dew, like balm, shall steal Into wounds, that...with the strange device Excelsior ! His brow was sad ; his eye beneath, Flashed like a faulchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents... | |
 | William Bentley Fowle - 1844 - 302 pages
...that are behind, and reaching forth unto those things that are before, I press toward the mark," &c. The shades of night were falling fast, As through...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... | |
 | Jules Janin - 1844 - 356 pages
...French voices, the favorite air which our master had composed, expressly for my little sister Nelly ; The shades of night were falling fast, As through...and ice, A banner with the strange device, Excelsior ! Do you wish to know the history of this worthy Schlesinger, whom our virtuosos of Paris recalled... | |
 | Jules Janin - 1844 - 254 pages
...voices, the favorite air which our master had composed, expressly for my little sister Nelly : — " The shades of night were falling fast, As through...and ice, A banner with the strange device, Excelsior !" Do you wish to know the history of this worthy Schlesinger, whom our virtuosos of Paris recalled... | |
 | Hannah J. Woodman - 1846 - 224 pages
...Thou whose locks outshine the sun, Golden tresses, wreathed in one, As the braided streamlets run ! Bear through sorrow, wrong, and ruth, In thy heart...many a sunless heart, For a smile of God thou art. Thy place is by God's altar, there to stand And break the bread of life to erring man, To bear the... | |
 | 1846 - 302 pages
...Bear, through sorrow, wrong and ruth, In thy heart the dew of youth, On thy lips the smile of truth. O, that dew, like balm, shall steal Into wounds, that...many a sunless heart, For a smile of God thou art. 160 VOICES OF THE TRUE HEARTED. THE HYMN OF THE DEW. I know what the dew sang as down to the folds... | |
 | 1846 - 308 pages
...sorrow, wrong and ruth, In thy heart the dew of youth, On thy lips the smile of truth. 0, that Jew, like balm, shall steal Into wounds, that cannot heal,...many a sunless heart, For a smile of God thou art. 160 VOICES OE THE TRUE HEARTED. THE HYMN OF THE DEW. I know what the dew sang as down to the folds... | |
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