 | 1851 - 786 pages
...to all who rass ' For ever — never ! Never — for ever ! ' By day its voice is low and light, Bnt in the silent dead of night, Distinct as a passing...footstep's fall, It echoes along the vacant hall, Along the ceilmg, along the floor, And seems to say at each chamber door— ' For ever — never ! Never —... | |
 | 1850 - 464 pages
...all who pass,— " Forever — never ! Never — forever !" By day its voice is low and light; Hut in the silent dead of night, Distinct as a passing footstep's fall, It echoes aloug the vacant hall, Along the ceiling, along the floor, And seems to say, at each chamber-door,... | |
 | 1855 - 676 pages
...sight, alas I With sorrowful voice to all who pau — "Forever — never I Never — forever P1 tly day its voice is low and light, • But in the silent...night, Distinct as a passing footstep's fall, It echoes alon£ the vacant hall, Along the ceiling, along the floor, And seems to say at each chamber door—... | |
 | 1854 - 574 pages
...Saying, "Whichever he is, he 's an ass — Plaintiff— Defendant ; Defendant— Plaintiff." By day, his voice is low and light ; But, in the silent dead of night, A ghostly whisper seems to fall In echoes along the vacant Hall, Along the ceiling — along the floor,... | |
 | Theodore Dwight - 1846 - 764 pages
...and sighs, alas! \Vith sorrowful voice to all who pass,— " Forever — never ! Never— forever !" By day its voice is low and light; But in the silent...the floor, And seems to say, at each chamber door — " Forever — never ! Never — forever !" Through days of sorrow and of mirth, Through days of... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1846 - 570 pages
...and sighs, alas ! With sorrowful voice to all who pass. — "Forever — never ! Never — forever !" By day its voice is low and light, But in the silent...the floor, And seems to say, at each chamber door, "Forever — never! Never — forever !" In that mansion used to be Free hearted Hospitality, His great... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1846 - 178 pages
...sighs, alas ! With sorrowful voice to all who pass, — " Forever — never ! Never — forever ! " By day its voice is low and light ; But in the silent...ceiling, along the floor, And seems to say, at each chamber-door, — " Forever — never ! Never — forever ! " Through days of sorrow and of mirth,... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1850 - 758 pages
...! "With sorrowfu.1 voice, to all who pass : "For ever — never! Never — for ever ! " By day his voice is low and light; But in the silent dead of...hall, Along the ceiling, along the floor, And seems to eay, at each chamber-door, Never— forever! Through days of sorrow and of mirth, Through day« of... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1848 - 128 pages
...sighs, alas ! With sorrowful voice to all who pass, — " Por ever — never ! Never — for ever !" By day its voice is low and light ; But in the silent...ceiling, along the floor, And seems to say, at each chamber-door, — " For ever — never ! Never — for ever !" Through days of sorrow and of mirth,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1848 - 170 pages
...along the floor, And seems to say, at each chamhcr-door,— " Forever — never! Never — forever ! " Through days of sorrow and of mirth. Through days of death and days of hirth, Through every swift vicissitude Of changeful time, unchanged it has stood, And as if, like God,... | |
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By day its voice is low and light ; But in the silent dead of night, Distinct as a passing footstep's fall, It echoes along the vacant hall, Along the ceiling, along the floor, And seems to say at each chamber door, " Forever — never ! Never — forever... 
