 O Bells of San Bias, in vain Ye call back the Past again ! The Past is deaf to your prayer : Out of the shadows of night The world rolls into- light ; It is daybreak everywhere.  Lights of Two Centuries - Page 494edited by - 1887 - 603 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1893 - 844 pages
...fervid zeal, The hearts of fire and steel, The hands that believe and build. Oh, bells of San Bias, in vain Ye call back the past again ; The past is...prayer. Out of the shadows of night The world rolls into liyht ; It is daybreak everywhere. After Longfellow one naturally thinks of his countryman Whittier,... | |
 | 1907 - 684 pages
...nine days before had he laid down his pen with these three lines from ' The Bells of San Bias ' : — Out of the shadows of night The world rolls into light ; It is daybreak everywhere. On the Sunday following — the anniversary of that lovely morning, forty-three years earlier, when... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1870 - 1344 pages
...respecting Longfellow, from Cardina Wiseman's Lecture on the Home Education of the Poor Thus it runs: "There is no greater lack in English literature than...poet of the people, — of one who shall be to the labouring-classes о England what Goethe is to the peasant of Germany. He was a true philosopher who... | |
 | American Unitarian Association - 1870 - 824 pages
...music of the last song of our own poet : — '• O Bells of San Bias, in vain Ye call back the Fast again ! The Past is deaf to your prayer : Out of the...world rolls into light ; It is daybreak everywhere." LETTER FROM REV. DR. JOHN CORDNER. The Secretary of the Association, Rev. GRINDALL REYNOLDS, then read... | |
 | 1877 - 446 pages
...,Diamond, $1.00 ; Hed-line, 12 illustrations, $3.50 ; Household, $2.00 ; Centennial (paper), $1.00. "There is no greater lack" in English literature than...the people, — of one who shall be to the laboring cla England what Goethe is to the peasant of Germany, He was a true philosopher who .-aid, ' Let me... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1883 - 446 pages
...words that came from his pen : — " O Bells of San Bias, in vain Ye call back the Past again! The Fast is deaf to your prayer: Out of the shadows of night...world rolls into light; It is daybreak everywhere." One of his latest sonnets is entitled Chimes. "Sweet chimes! that in the loneliness of night Salute... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1882 - 90 pages
...return To their thrones, and the people learn That the Priest is lord of the land!" O Bells of San Bias, in vain Ye call back the Past again! The Past is deaf...world rolls into light; It is daybreak everywhere. TRANSLATIONS. PRELUDE. As treasures that men seek, Deep-buried in sea-sands, Vanish if they but speak,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1882 - 102 pages
...return To their thrones, and the people learn That the Priest is lord of the land!" O Bells of San Bias, in vain Ye call back the Past again ! The Past is...world rolls into- light ; It is daybreak everywhere. March 15, 1882. TBANSLATIONS. PRELUDE. As treasures that men seek, Deep-buried in sea-sands, Vanish... | |
 | Nehemiah Cleaveland - 1882 - 1172 pages
...hopeful kind, enhances the value of his poetry." Cardinal Wiseman's estimate of him is worth a record: " There is no greater lack in English literature than...be to the laboring classes of England, what Goethe is to the peasant of Germany. It was a true philosopher who said, ' Let me make the songs of a nation... | |
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