 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 Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Page 109by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1866 - 367 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1842 - 590 pages
...with the strange device — Exceltior ! His brow was sad ; his eye beneath Flashed like a falchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The...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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1842 - 144 pages
...seal ; And that smile, like sunshine, dart Into many a sunless heart, For a smile of God thou art. EXCELSIOR. THE shades of night were falling fast,...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... | |
 | 1842 - 546 pages
...the world, is too modest to subject his labors to the graver, and thus share in the fame of the poet. "EXCELSIOR. " THE shades of night were falling fast,...beneath, Flashed like a faulchion from its sheath, And tike a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior ! " In happy homes he saw... | |
 | 1842 - 576 pages
...his labors to the graver, and thus share in the fame of the poet. 1842.] Longfellow's Poems. 243 " EXCELSIOR. " THE shades of night were falling fast,...His brow was sad; his eye beneath, Flashed like a faulcliion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1842 - 718 pages
...with the strange device — Excelsior ! His brow was sad ; his eye beneath Flashed like a falchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The...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... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1842 - 638 pages
...wrought, 300 301 EXCELSIOR. THE shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village pass'd A youth, who bore, mid snow and ice, A banner with...device, Excelsior ! His brow was sad ; his eye beneath Flash'd like a faulehion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown... | |
 | 1842 - 694 pages
...THE shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore, 'midst snow and ice, A banner with the strange device —...His brow was sad ; his eye beneath Flashed like a falchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue — Exceliier... | |
 | 1842 - 682 pages
...shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine vi!!-i<;c passed A youth, who bore, 'midsl snow and ice, A banner with the strange device —...His brow was sad ; his eye beneath Flashed like a falchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue— Ezceliierl... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1843 - 570 pages
...seal ; And that smile, like sunshine, dart Into many a sunless heart, For a smile of God thou art. EXCELSIOR. THE shades of night were falling fast,...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... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1843 - 278 pages
...BY HENRY W. LONGFELLOW. THE shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village pass'd A youth, who bore, mid snow and ice, A banner, with...device, Excelsior ! His brow was sad : his eye beneath Flash'd like a faulchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung, The accents of_ that unknown... | |
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