 O Land ! For all the broken-hearted The mildest herald by our fate allotted, Beckons, and with inverted torch doth stand To lead us with a gentle hand Into the land of the great Departed, Into the Silent Land ;  The Boston Book: Being Specimens of Metropolitan Literature - Page 360by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 364 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1839 - 238 pages
...broken-hearted The mildest herald by our fate allotted, Beckons, and with inverted torch doth stand To lead us with a gentle hand Into the land of the great departed, Into the Silent Land ! Is not that a beautiful poem ? " Mary Ashburton made no answer. She had turned away to hide her tears.... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1840 - 182 pages
...broken-hearted The mildest herald by our fate allotted, Beckons, and with inverted torch doth stand To lead us with a gentle hand Into the land of the great Departed, Into the Silent Land ! ^.L'ENVOI. voices, that arose After the Evening's close, And whispered to my restless heart, Repose... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1856 - 652 pages
...hearted ; The mildest herald by our fate allotted, Beckons, and with inverted torch doth stand, To lead us with a gentle hand Into the land of the great departed, Into the silent land!" The three columns of elegiac stanzas by Mrs. Stowe, abounding as they do with beautiful thought and... | |
 | 1856 - 652 pages
...hearted ; The mildest herald by our fate allotted, Beckons, and with inverted torch doth stand, To lead us with a gentle hand Into the land of the great departed, Into the silent land!" The three columns of olegiac stanzas by Mrs. Stowe, abounding as they do with beautiful thought and... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1843 - 174 pages
...broken-hearted The mildest herald by our fate allotted, Beckons, and with inverted torch doth stand To lead us with a gentle hand Into the land of the great Departed, Into the Silent Land ! L'ENVOI. YE voices, that arose After the Evening's close, And whispered to my restless heart repose... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1845 - 886 pages
...broken-hearted The mildest herald by our fate allotted Beckons, and with inverted torch doth stand To lead us with a gentle hand Into the land of the great departed, Into the Silent Land ! HARVEST SONG. . AUTUMN winds are sighing, Summer glories dying, Harvest-time is nigh. 326 327 Cooler... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...broken-hearted The mildest herald by our fate allotted Beckons, and with inverted torch doth stand To lead us with a gentle hand Into the land of the great departed, Into the Silent Land ! ODE. — Collins. How sleep the brave, who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest ! When... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1848 - 316 pages
...attractive forms did the imagination of the ancient poets and sculptors represent death. And these were men in whose souls the religion of nature was...stars, beautiful, but faint and cold. Strange that in her latter days this angel of God, which leads us with a gentle hand into the " land of the great departed,... | |
 | Sir Daniel Wilson - 1848 - 334 pages
...broken-hearted The mildest herald by our fate allotted Beckons, and with inverted torch doth stand, To lead us with a gentle hand Into the land of the great departed, Into the Silent Land! " It was indeed a day of thanksgiving for Cromwell, but none for those he had left behind. "The consternation... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1849 - 276 pages
...attractive forms did the imagination of the ancient poets and sculptors represent death. And these were men in whose souls the religion of nature was like the ligh t of stars, beautiful, but faint and cold. Strange that in her latter days this angel of God,... | |
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