 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1839 - 174 pages
...' [toil juoyle 'Ayafifftvoviov inl Sofiov • vno yaQ aiyicov, vno TE EURIPIDES. HYMN TO THE NIGHT. I HEARD the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through...heard the sounds of sorrow and delight, The manifold, soft chimes, That fill the haunted chambers of the Night, Like some old poet's rhymes. From the cool... | |
 | 1840 - 326 pages
...the publie, from the fact that these idiosyncratic beauties arc there more evident anU more glowing. I heard the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through...heard the sounds of sorrow and delight, The manifold soft chimes That fill the haunted chambers of the Night Like some old poet's rhymes. From the cool... | |
 | William Evans Burton, Edgar Allan Poe - 1840 - 616 pages
...through her marble halls ! I saw her sable skirts all fringed with light From the celestial wall«! I felt her presence, by its spell of might, Stoop...heard the sounds of sorrow and delight, The manifold soft chimes That fill the haunted chambers of the Night Like some old poet's rhymes. From the cool... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1842 - 642 pages
..." Hymn to the Night ? " Read it once, and its melody haunts the heart lorever : "HYMN TO THE NIGHT. I heard the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through...heard the sounds of sorrow and delight, The manifold, soft chimes, That fill the haunted chambers of the Night, Like some old poet's rhymes. From the cool... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1842 - 578 pages
...NIGHT. I heard the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through her marble halls ! I saw her sahle skirts all fringed with light From the celestial walls...heard the sounds of sorrow and delight, The manifold, soft chimes, That fill the haunted chambers of the Night, Like some old poet's rhymes. From the cool... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1843 - 174 pages
...IKIV nolvitovuv /Sporolv, l&i ' jUOJU ftois liii Sopor ' utyitav, vno re EURIPIDES. HYMN TO THE NIGHT. I HEARD the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through...heard the sounds of sorrow and delight, The manifold, soft chimes, That fill the haunted chambers of the Night, Like some old poet's rhymes. From the cool... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 462 pages
...the Night, That can soothe thee, or affright, — Be these henceforth thy theme." HYMN TO THE NIGHT. I HEARD the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through...heard the sounds of sorrow and delight, The manifold soft chimes, That fill the haunted chambers of the Night, Like some old poet's rhymes. From the cool... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 500 pages
...Tioivnoriay l'9t' fioie pole xu inl Sopor' iino yvtQ aiyitov, vno te EI'RIPIDIS. HYMN TO THE NIGHT. I HEARD the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through...heard the sounds of sorrow and delight, The manifold, soft chimes, That fill the haunted chambers of the Night, Like some old poet's rhymes. From the cool... | |
 | Thomas Powell - 1850 - 380 pages
...with light From the celestial walls." He redeems this artificial imagery by the following verse : " I felt her presence, by its spell of might, Stoop...majestic presence of the night, As of the one I love ! * * * " O, holy night ! from thee I learn to bear What man has done before ; Thou layest thy finger... | |
 | Thomas Powell - 1850 - 382 pages
...there is an instance of bad taste in the selection of metaphors, which rarely happens to our author. " I heard the trailing garments of the night Sweep through...all fringed with light From the celestial walls." He redeems this artificial imagery by the following verse : " I felt her presence, by its spell of... | |
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I HEARD the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through her marble halls ! I saw her sable skirts all fringed with light From the celestial walls ! I felt her presence, by its spell of might, Stoop o'er me from above ; The calm majestic presence of the... 
