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" 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... "
The Hutchinson Family's Book of Poetry: Containing Sixty-seven of Their Most ... - Page 43
1858 - 69 pages
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 12

Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1842 - 590 pages
...village passed A youth, who bore, 'midst snow and ice, A banner with the strange device — Exceltior ! His brow was sad ; his eye beneath Flashed like a...happy homes he saw the light Of household fires gleam clear and bright ; Above the spectral glaciers shone, And from his lips escaped a groan — Excelsior...
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The New York Review, Volumes 1-10

1842 - 576 pages
...with the strange device, . Excelsior ! " His brow was sad; his eye beneath, Flashed like a faulcliion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The...glaciers shone, And from his lips escaped a groan, Excelsior! " ' Try not the Pass !' the old man said ; ' Dark rowers the tempest overhead, The roaring...
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The Poets and Poetry of America: With an Historical Introduction

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1842 - 638 pages
...banner with the strange device, Excelsior ! His brow was sad ; his eye beneath Flash'd like a faulehion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The...glaciers shone, And from his lips escaped a groan, Excelsior! " Try not the pass !" the old man said ; " Dark lowers the tempest overhead. The roaring...
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 12

Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1842 - 718 pages
...fast, As through an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore, 'midst snow and ice, A banner with the strange device — Excelsior ! His brow was sad ;...happy homes he saw the light Of household fires gleam clear and bright ; Above the spectral glaciers shone, And from his lips escaped a groan — Excelsior...
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 10

1842 - 682 pages
...fast, As through an Alpine vi!!-i<;c passed A youth, who bore, 'midsl snow and ice, A banner with the strange device — Excelsior ! His brow was sad ;...clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue— Ezceliierl In happy homes he saw the light Of household fires gleam clear and bright; Above the spectral...
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 10

1842 - 694 pages
...fast, As through an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore, 'midst snow and ice, A banner with the strange device — Excelsior ! His brow was sad ;...silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue — Exceliier I In happy homes he saw the light Of household fires gleam clear and bright; Above the...
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Ballads and Other Poems

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1842 - 148 pages
...banner 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 of that unknown tongue, Excelsior ! 9 « In happy homes he saw the light Of household fires gleam warm and bright ; Above, the spectral...
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Ballads and Other Poems

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1842 - 144 pages
...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 faulchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior...
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The New-York Review, Volume 10; Volumes 19-20

1842 - 546 pages
...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 faulchion from its sheath, And tike a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior...
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Readings in American Poetry

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1843 - 280 pages
...banner, with the strange device, Excelsior ! His brow was sad : his eye beneath Flash'd like a faulchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung, The...glaciers shone, And from his lips escaped a groan, Excelsior ! " Try not the pass !" the old man said ; " Dark lowers the tempest overhead, The roaring...
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