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" No one is so accursed by fate, No one so utterly desolate, But some heart, though unknown, Responds unto his own. Responds, — as if with unseen wings An angel touched its quivering strings ; And whispers, in its song, " Where hast thou stayed so long... "
Poems - Page 245
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 9

1842 - 732 pages
...— And kisses the closed eyes Of him who slumbering lies. O, weary hearts ! O, slumbering eyes ! O, drooping souls, whose destinies Are fraught with fear...loved again ! No one is so accursed by fate, No one so wholly desolate, But some heart, though unknown, Responds unto his own. Responds, as if with unseen...
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Ballads and Other Poems

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1842 - 148 pages
...sleep, And kisses the closed eyes Of him, who slumbering lies. O, weary hearts ! O, slumbering eyes ! O, drooping souls, whose destinies Are fraught with fear...unto his own. Responds, — as if with unseen wings, A breath from heaven had touched its strings; And whispers, in its song, "Where hast thou stayed so...
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The Poets and Poetry of America: With an Historical Introduction

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1842 - 638 pages
...sleep, And kisses the closed eyes Of him, who slumbering lies. O, weary hearts ! O, slumbering eyes ! O, drooping souls, whose destinies Are fraught with fear...desolate, But some heart, though unknown, Responds unto its own. Responds — as if, with unseen wings, A breath from heaven had touch'd its strings : And...
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Readings in American Poetry

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1843 - 280 pages
...sleep, And kisses the closed eyes Of him, who slumbering lies. O, weary hearts ! O, slumbering eyes 1 O, drooping souls, whose destinies Are fraught with fear...desolate, But some heart, though unknown, Responds unto its own. Responds — as if, with unseen wings, A breath from heaven had touch'd its strings ; And...
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Gems from the American Poets: With Brief Biographical Notices

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1844 - 136 pages
...sleep, And kisses the closed eyes Of him who slumbering lies. O, weary hearts ! O, slumbering eyes ! O, drooping souls, whose destinies Are fraught with fear...desolate, But some heart, though unknown, Responds unto its own. Responds— as if, with unseen wings, A breath from heaven had touch'd its strings ; And whispers,...
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The physiology of love

Physiology - 1844 - 86 pages
...convert misery into happiness, in the thought of once having been the object of pure and fervent love. " No one is so accursed by fate, No one so utterly desolate,...unto his own — Responds, as if, with unseen wings, A breath from heaven had touch'd its strings ; And whispers, in its song, ' Where hast thou stay'd...
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An Improved Grammar of the English Language, on the Inductive System: With ...

Bradford Frazee - 1845 - 214 pages
...me patiently. King Agrippa, believest thou the prophets'! " O weary hearts ! O slumbering eyes ! O drooping souls, whose destinies Are fraught with fear and pain Ye shall be loved again." Longfellow's Endymion. REMARK. The nominative case is the naming case, and therefore when a name is...
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Gift of love and friendship [an anthology of verse].

Gift - 1846 - 268 pages
...him who slumbering lies. 0, weary hearts ! O, slumbering eyes 1 O, drooping souls, whose destiuies Are fraught with fear and pain, Ye shall be loved...unto his own. Responds,— as if, with unseen wings, A breath from heaven had touched its strings, And whispers, in its song, " Where hast thou stayed so...
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The Churchman's companion, Volume 3

1848 - 792 pages
...world would be a blank, whose place none other could fill " to free the hollow heart from paining." " No one is so accursed by fate, No one so utterly desolate,...some heart, though unknown, Responds unto his own." But here it was no unknown heart that responded to the poor sufferer's ; it was one that showed itself...
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Ernest Vane, Volume 2

Alexander Dundas R. Cochrane-Wishart- Baillie (1st baron Lamington.) - 1849 - 312 pages
...deep Are life's oblivion, the soul's sleep, And kisses the closed eyes Of him who slumbering lies. No one is so accursed by fate, No one so utterly desolate, But some heart, though unknomi, Responds unto his own." " These are beautiful lines/' exclaimed- Ida. " They are, indeed,"...
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