 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1902 - 924 pages
...shalt know erelong, Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong. FOOTSTEPS OF ANGELS WHEN the hours of Day are numbered, And the voices of the...from the fitful firelight Dance upon the parlor wall ; More than all things else to love me. And is now a saint in heaven. With a slow and noiseless footstep... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1893 - 924 pages
...readest this brief psalm, As one by one thy hopes depart, Be resolute and calm. FOOTSTEPS OF ANGELS WOES the hours of Day are numbered, And the voices of the...Night Wake the better soul, that slumbered, To a holy, culm delight; bhftilows from the fitful firelight Dance upon the parlor wall; Ere the evening lamps... | |
 | 1902 - 692 pages
...compared with those who come to us from out the past. And these remembered forms are present companions. " Then the forms of the departed Enter at the open door;...beloved, the true-hearted, Come to visit me once more." However keen the still lingering grief over the death of some one who made so large a part of your... | |
 | James Henry Foss - 1902 - 328 pages
...hand in hand with angels. We realized unmistakably the truth of the words of the poet Longfellow : ' ' The forms of the departed enter at the open door, The beloved, the true hearted come to visit us once more, And with them the being beauteous, who unto my youth was given... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1903 - 440 pages
...for any fate ; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait. FOOTSTEPS OF ANGELS WHEN the hours of Day are numbered, And the voices of the...Shadows from the fitful fire-light Dance upon the parlour wall ; Then the forms of the departed Enter at the open door ; The beloved, the true-hearted,... | |
 | James Martin Peebles - 1903 - 394 pages
...in another world. Dim faces of the dead and of the absent Come floating up before me." ***** "When the hours of day are numbered, And the voices of the night Wake the better soal that slumber'd, To a holy, calm delight ; Ere the evening lamps are lighted, And like phantoms... | |
 | 1904 - 1058 pages
...the peace that over Eden brooded, But that which triumphed in Gethsemane. FOOTSTEPS OF ANGELS. WHEN the hours of day are numbered, And the voices of the...the departed Enter at the open door, — The beloved ones, the true-hearted, Come to visit me once more: He, the young and strong, who cherished Noble longings... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1904 - 412 pages
...month after the death of Mrs. Longfellow, who is referred to in the sixth and following stanzas. WHEN the hours of Day are numbered, And the voices of the...lamps are lighted, And, like phantoms grim and tall, Then the forms of the departed Enter at the open door; The beloved, the true-hearted, Come to visit... | |
 | CURTIS HIDDE PAGE - 1905 - 746 pages
...thrice-prayed for, the most fair, The best-beloved Night ! 1S3ÍI. 1839. FOOTSTEPS OF ANGELS 2 WHEN the hours of Day are numbered, And the voices of the...from the fitful firelight Dance upon the parlor wall ; * A slightly different version of tlie first, second, third, sixth, seventli and eighth stanzas,... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - 1905 - 730 pages
...the thrice-prayed for, the most fair, The best-beloved Night ! 1839. 1839. FOOTSTEPS OF ANGELS2 WHEN the hours of Day are numbered, And the voices of the...from the fitful firelight Dance upon the parlor wall; 1 A slightly different venion of the first, second, third, sixth, seventh and eighth stanzas, with... | |
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Wake the better soul, that slumbered, To a holy, calm delight ; Ere the evening lamps are lighted, And, like phantoms grim and tall, Shadows from the fitful firelight Dance upon the parlor wall ; Then the forms of the departed Enter at the open door ;... 
