 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1842 - 148 pages
...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, As through...His brow was sad ; his eye beneath, Flashed like a faulchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior... | |
 | 1842 - 544 pages
...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, As through...His brow was sad ; his eye beneath, Flashed like a faulchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1843 - 570 pages
...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, As through...His brow was sad ; his eye beneath, Flashed like a faulchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior... | |
 | William Bentley Fowle - 1844 - 302 pages
...that are behind, and reaching forth unto those things that are before, I press toward the mark," &c. The shades of night were falling fast, As through...his eye beneath, Flashed like a falchion from its sheath ; And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior ! In happy homes... | |
 | Jules Janin - 1844 - 354 pages
...French voices, the favorite air which our master had composed, expressly for my little sister Nelly ; The shades of night were falling fast, As through...and ice, A banner with the strange device, Excelsior ! Do you wish to know the history of this worthy Schlesinger, whom our virtuosos of Paris recalled... | |
 | Jules Janin - 1844 - 254 pages
...voices, the favorite air which our master had composed, expressly for my little sister Nelly : — " The shades of night were falling fast, As through...and ice, A banner with the strange device, Excelsior !" Do you wish to know the history of this worthy Schlesinger, whom our virtuosos of Paris recalled... | |
 | 1846 - 308 pages
...no craven heart speed the good work. VOICES OF THE TRUE-HEARTED. EXCELSIOR. BY HENRY W. LO.NGFELLOW. The shades of night were falling fast, As through...sad, his eye beneath Flashed like a falchion from its sheath ! And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior ! In happy homes... | |
 | 1846 - 302 pages
...Toussaint L'Ouverture, by Wm. Wordsworth, ...... 288 n L, As POEMS BY HENRY W. LONGFELLOW. ENCELSIOR. \ Tbe shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine...! His brow was sad; his eye beneath Flashed like a faulchion from its sheath ; And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior... | |
 | 208 pages
...apology and a promise, we give, to-day, one of the noblest, sweetest effusions of his genius : — The shades of night were falling fast, As through...His brow was sad ; his eye beneath Flashed like a faulchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior... | |
 | National Sunday school union - 1871 - 598 pages
...unfailing ! How dear art Thou to me ! SKB 13. Berlin (jesanbiich. THE shades of night were falling fas As through an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore...; his eye beneath Flashed like a falchion from its aheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior! "Try not the... | |
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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... 
