 | 1876 - 938 pages
...not quite Cut ofMrom labor by the failing light ; Something remains for us to do or dare; • * * * * For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself,...away, The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day." It seems to us that in the sonnets also Longfellow is at his best. Should he never publish another... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1875 - 170 pages
...that one morning rode Out of the gateway of the Tabard Inn, But other something, would we but begin; For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself,...away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. BIRDS OF PASSAGE. FLIGHT THE FOURTH. CHARLES SUMNER. GARLANDS upon his grave, And flowers upon his... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1875 - 170 pages
...one morning rode Out of the gateway of the Tabard Inn, But other something, would we but begin ; Tor age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though...away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. BIRDS OF PASSAGE. FLIGHT THK FOURTH. BIRDS OF PASSAGE. FLIGHT THE FOURTH. CHARLES SUMNER. GARLANDS... | |
 | Monday Club - 1875 - 414 pages
...scale of night slowly rose in the eastern heavens, while the scale of day declined in the west, — " And, as the evening twilight fades away, The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day." Like that peaceful, beauteous evening hour may be the season of life's decline, when irradiated, with... | |
 | 1875 - 944 pages
...gateway of the Tabard Inn, But other something, would we bat begin ; For age is opportunity no lees Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The eky is filled with stare, invisible by day." The poem is, as was most appropriate, a direct personal... | |
 | 1877 - 1014 pages
...further dedicate, as peculiarly felicitous to you, the same poet's latest inspired truth, that — "Age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though...away The sky is filled with stars invisible by day." Mr. Barclay was deeply overcome, and after a pause said : "It is almost two-thirds of a century, since,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1877 - 400 pages
...Out of the gateway of the Tabard Inn, But other something, would we but begin ; For age is opportumty no less Than youth itself, though in another dress,...away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. BIRDS OF PASSAGE. FLIGHT THE FOURTH. CHARLES SUMNER. GAELANDS upon his grave, And flowers upon his... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...that one morning rode Out of the gateway of the Tabard Inn, But other something, would we but begin ; 0 a "O 1877 Richard D. Dickinson"1 Bertram Robert Aitkin" Robert Aitken Bertram( fill'd with stars, invisible by day. 2599. OLD AGE. Signs of MY days pass pleasantly away, My nights... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1877 - 634 pages
...that one morning rode Out of the gateway of the Tabard Inn, But other something, would we but begin ; For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself,...another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away Tho sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. A BALLAD OF THE FRENCH FLEET. OCTOBER, 1716. MB. THOMAS... | |
 | James Thomas Fields - 1877 - 322 pages
...poem, intimating with raised forefinger that they had all come to listen. When the last two lines — " And as the evening twilight fades away, The sky is filled with stars invisible by day " — fell from the poet's lips, and he was folding up the manuscript of " Morituri Salutamus," a holy... | |
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For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. 
