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" EXCELSIOR. 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... "
H. W. Longfellow and W. C. Bryant - Page 228
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1902 - 714 pages
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 12

Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1842 - 590 pages
...village passed A youth, who bore, 'midst snow and ice, A banner with the strange device — Exceltior ! His brow was sad ; his eye beneath Flashed like a...rung The accents of that unknown tongue — Excelsior ! In happy homes he saw the light Of household fires gleam clear and bright ; Above the spectral glaciers...
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Ballads and Other Poems

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1842 - 148 pages
...overflows, To embalm that tent of snows. Bear a lily in thy hand ; Gates of brass cannot withstand One touch of that magic wand. Bear through sorrow, wrong,...and ice, A banner with the strange device Excelsior ! His brow was sad ; his eye beneath, Flashed like a faulchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion...
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The New York Review, Volumes 1-10

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,...ice, A banner with the strange device, . Excelsior ! " His brow was sad; his eye beneath, Flashed like a faulcliion from its sheath, And like a silver...
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 12

Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1842 - 718 pages
...village passed A youth, who bore, 'midst snow and ice, A banner with the strange device — Excelsior ! His brow was sad ; his eye beneath Flashed like a...rung The accents of that unknown tongue — Excelsior ! In happy homes he saw the light Of household fires gleam clear and bright ; Above the spectral glaciers...
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 10

1842 - 682 pages
...vi!!-i<;c passed A youth, who bore, 'midsl snow and ice, A banner with the strange device — Excelsior ! His brow was sad ; his eye beneath Flashed like a...clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue— Ezceliierl In happy homes he saw the light Of household fires gleam clear and bright; Above the spectral...
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 10

1842 - 694 pages
...village passed A youth, who bore, 'midst snow and ice, A banner with the strange device — Excelsior ! His brow was sad ; his eye beneath Flashed like a...silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue — Exceliier I In happy homes he saw the light Of household fires gleam clear and bright; Above the...
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Voices of the Night

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1843 - 570 pages
...overflows, To embalm that tent of snows. Bear a lily in thy hand ; Gates of brass cannot withstand One touch of that magic wand. Bear through sorrow, wrong,...and ice, A banner with the strange device Excelsior ! His brow was sad ; his eye beneath, Flashed like a faulchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion...
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The American in Paris: During the Summer

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...
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The American in Paris During the Summer: Being a Companion to the "Winter in ...

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...
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The Common School Speaker: A New Collection of Original and Selected Pieces ...

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...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 clarion...
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