 ... heart of man, That strange and mystic scroll, That an army of phantoms vast and wan Beleaguer the human soul. Encamped beside Life's rushing stream, In Fancy's misty light, Gigantic shapes and shadows gleam Portentous through the night. Upon its midnight...  The Poets of America - Page 97edited by - 1842 - 326 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1839 - 174 pages
...shadows gleam Portentous through the night. Upon its midnight battle-ground The spectral camp is seen, And with a sorrowful, deep sound, Flows the River...shadows sweep away. Down the broad Vale of Tears afar The spectral camp is fled ; Faith shineth as a morning star, Our ghastly fears are dead. .MIDNIGHT... | |
 | Edward Payson Weston - 1840 - 226 pages
...shadows gleam Portentous through the night. Upon its midnight battle-ground The spectral camp is seen, And with a sorrowful, deep sound, Flows the River...shadows sweep away. Down the broad Vale of Tears afar The spectral camp is fled; Faith shineth as a morning star, Our ghastly fears are dead. LINES ON LEAVING... | |
 | 1840 - 818 pages
...shadows gleam Portentous through the niglit. Upon its midnight battle-ground The spectral camp is seen, And with a sorrowful, deep sound, Flows the river...challenge breaks the air, But the rushing of life's wave. But when the solemn and deep church bell Entreats the soul to pray, The midnight phantoms feel the... | |
 | 1840 - 210 pages
...light, Gigantie shapes and shadows gleam Portentous through the night. Upon it* midnight battle-ground And with a sorrowful, deep sound, Flows the river of life between. No olller voiee or sound is there, In the army of llie grave — No other ehallenge breaks the air, But... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1842 - 638 pages
...shadows gleam Portentous through the night. Upon its midnight battle-ground The spectral camp is seen,' And with a sorrowful, deep sound, Flows the River...rushing of Life's wave. And, when the solemn and deep chureh-bell Entreats the soul to pray, The midnight phantoms feel the spell, The shadows sweep away.... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1843 - 174 pages
...shadows gleam Portentous through the night. Upon its midnight battle-ground The spectral camp is seen, And, with a sorrowful, deep sound, Flows the River...shadows sweep away. Down the broad Vale of Tears afar The spectral camp is fled ; Faith shineth as a morning star, Our ghastly fears are dead. MIDNIGHT MASS... | |
 | Seba Smith - 1846 - 216 pages
...shadows gleam Portentous through the night. Upon its midnight battle-ground The spectral camp is seen, And, with a sorrowful, deep sound, Flows the River...shadows sweep away. Down the broad Vale of Tears afar The spectral camp is fled ; Faith shineth as a morning star, Our ghastly fears are dead. ADVICE FROM... | |
 | Timothy Stone Pinneo - 1847 - 502 pages
...shadows gleam Portentous through the night. Upon its midnight battle ground The spectral camp is seen, And, with a sorrowful, deep sound, Flows the River...shadows sweep away. Down the broad vale of Tears afar The spectral camp is fled ; Faith shineth as a mornmg star, Our ghastly fears are dead. HW MATILDA.... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 434 pages
...spectral camp is scen, And with a sorrowful, deep sound, Flows the Rivcr of Life between. And, wlura the solemn and deep church-bell Entreats the soul to pray, The midnight phantoms feel the spell, Tho shadows sweep away. Down the broad Vale of Tears afar The spectral camp is fled ; Faith shineth... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 500 pages
...shadows gleam Portentous through the night. Upon its midnight battle-ground The spectral camp is seen, And, with a sorrowful, deep sound, Flows the River...shadows sweep away. Down the broad Vale of Tears afar The spectral camp is fled ; Faith shineth as a morning star, Our ghastly fears are dead. MIDNIGHT MASS... | |
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