 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1852 - 256 pages
...O'er the light of whose gladness No shadows of sadness From the somhre background of memory start. Once, ah, once, within these walls, One whom memory...Country, dwelt. And yonder meadows broad and damp TO A CHILD. 207 The flres of the besieging camp Encircled with a burning belt. Up and down these echoing... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 588 pages
...of Washington. In a beautiful poem addressed to one of his children, he thus alludes to it : — " Once, ah, once within these walls, One whom memory...Country, dwelt ; And yonder meadows, broad and damp, The tires of the besieging camp Encircled with a burning belt. " Up and down these echoing stairs Weary... | |
 | 1853 - 504 pages
...prose, comprises about fifty volumes. ffl. £0ngfelloto. - . • • II , , -' • ' I. ..I. Jll. 4 Once, ah, once, within these walls, One whom memory...recalls, The Father of his Country dwelt ; And yonder meadow, broad and damp, The fires of the besieging camp Encircled with a burning belt, Up and down... | |
 | 1853 - 516 pages
...of his works, poetry and prose, comprises about fifty volumes. ffl. $0ngfdloto. LONGFELLOW, " Onee, ah, once, within these walls, One whom memory oft...recalls, The Father of his Country dwelt; And yonder meadow, broad and damp, The fires of the besieging camp Encircled with a burning belt, Up and down... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1854 - 580 pages
...the light of whose gladness No shadows of sadness • From the sombre background of memory Start. [ Once, ah, once, within these walls, One whom memory oft recalls, ; The father of this country, dwelt. And yonder meadows broad and damp The fires of the besieging camp Encircled with... | |
 | S. Herbert Lancey - 1854 - 338 pages
...once the head-quarters of George Washington, and of which he writes, in a poem, " To a Child ": — Once, ah, once within these walls, One whom Memory oft recalls, The FATHIB of his Country dwelt. And yonder meadows broad and damp, The fires of the besieging camp Encircled... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 568 pages
...O'er the light of whose gladness No shadows of sadness From the sombre background of memory start. Once, ah, once, within these walls, One whom memory oft recalls, The Father of this country dwelt. And yonder meadows broad and damp The tires of the besieging camp Encircled with... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 472 pages
...O'er the light of whose gladness No shadows of sadness Prom the sombre background of memory start. Once, ah, once, within these walls, One whom memory oft recalls, The Father of this country dwelt. And yonder meadows broad and damp The fires of the besieging camp Encircled with... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1855 - 532 pages
...Now the resilience of Mr. Longfellow, who, in a beautiful poem " To a Child," recalls its history: " Once, ah, once, within these walls, One whom memory oft recalls, The Falhcr of his C untry dwelt ; Aud yonder meadow, broad and damp, The urea of the besieging camp Encircled... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1856 - 810 pages
...O'er the light of whose gladness No shadows of sadness From the sombre background of memory start. Once, ah, once, within these walls, One whom memory...this very room Sat he in those hours of gloom, Weary hoth in heart and head. But what are these grave thoughts to thee? Out, out ! into the open air ! Thy... | |
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Once, ah, once, within these walls, One whom memory oft recalls, The Father of his Country, dwelt. And yonder meadows broad and damp The fires of the besieging camp Encircled with a burning belt. 
