 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1878 - 660 pages
...never can be one again ; The first light swerving of the heart, That words are powerless to express, The very tones in which we spake Had something strange,...the fire Built of the wreck of stranded ships,' The names would leap and then expire. And, as their splendour flashed and failed, We thought of wrecks... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1878 - 318 pages
...That words are powerless to express, And leave it still unsaid in part, Or say it in too great excess. The very tones in which we spake Had something strange,...in the dark. Oft died the words upon our lips, As snddenly, from out the fire Built of the wreck of stranded ships, The flames would leap and then expire.... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1878 - 638 pages
...That words are powerless to express, And leave it still unsaid in part, Or say it in too great excess. The very tones in which we spake Had something strange,...could but mark ; The leaves of memory seemed to make £J mournful rustling in the dark) Oft died the words upon our lips, As suddenly, from out the fire... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - 1880 - 426 pages
...stony stare at Miss Austwicke, as, assisted by her servants, she alighted. CHAPTER II. A PROMISE. " The very tones in which we spake Had something strange,...memory seemed to make A mournful rustling in the dark." LONGFELLOV. quiet step, and making a low bow, in a formal, serious manner, somewhat at variance with... | |
 | Mary Rosa Stuart Kettle - 1880 - 426 pages
...windows, looking o'er the bay, Gave to the sea-breeze, damp and cold, An easy entrance, night and day. " Oft died the words upon our lips, As suddenly, from out the lire, Built of the wrecks of stranded ships, The flames would leap, and then expire. " And, as their... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth [extracts] Longfellow - 1881 - 466 pages
...fatherland, and " coin their brain for their daily bread ; " and the others, — where are they ? OUTEE-MEE. The leaves of memory seemed to make A mournful rustling in the dark. FIEE OF DEIFT-WOOD. Where are they now ? What lands and skies Paint pictures in their friendly eyes... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1882 - 382 pages
...of feeling in the simple lines that follow cannot be paraphrased. Two stanzas may be quoted : — " The very tones in which we spake Had something strange,...memory seemed to make A mournful rustling in the dark. " 0 flames that glowed ! 0 hearts that yearned ! They were indeed too much akin, The drift-wood fire... | |
 | P R Jackson - 1882 - 184 pages
...we spake 25 of our TO.cM. Had g^e^g strange. I could but mark ; Oft died the words upon our lips, 30 As suddenly from out the fire Built of the wreck of stranded * ships, Sirand, to ran a, The flames would leap and then expire. shore' to be *«(*ed. And, as their splendour... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1883 - 744 pages
...That words ars powerless to express, And leave it still unsaid in part, Or say it in too great excess. The very tones in which we spake Had something strange,...words upon our lips, As suddenly, from out the fire din as their splendour dashed and failed, We thought of wrecks upon the main, — Of ships dismasted,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1894 - 748 pages
...That words are powerless to express, And leave it still unsaid in part, Or say it in too great excess. The very tones in which we spake Had something strange,...the words upon our lips, As suddenly, from out the tire Built of the wreck of stranded ships, The flames would leap and then expire. And, as their splendor... | |
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The very tones in which we spake Had something strange, I could but mark ; The leaves of memory seemed to make A mournful rustling in the dark. 
