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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. "
Landscape in American Poetry - Page 52
by Lucy Larcom - 1879 - 124 pages
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A Dictionary of Quotations from English and American Poets: Based Upon Bohn ...

Henry George Bohn - 1911 - 784 pages
...Memory Nothing now is left But a majestic memory. 3203 Longfellow : Three Friends of Mine. Sonnet L The leaves of memory seemed to make A mournful rustling in the dark. 3204 Longfellow : Fire of Drift-wood. When musing on companions gone, We doubly feel ourselves alone....
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The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1914 - 734 pages
...leave it still unsaid in part, Or say it in too great excess. The very tones in which we spake liad something strange, I could but mark ; The leaves of...rustling in the dark. Oft died the words upon our lips, A* suddenly, from out the fire built of the wreck of stranded ships, The flames would leap and then...
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Constructive English for the Higher Grades of the Grammar School

Ina Capitola Emery - 1915 - 520 pages
...mother is the central figure in a scene. LESSON XIV. A HOUSE AND ITS PEOPLE. THE FIRE OF DRIFTWOOD. We sat within the farmhouse old, Whose windows, looking...seemed to make A mournful rustling in the dark. Oft as died the words upon our lips, As suddenly, from out the fire Built of the wreck of stranded ships,...
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Hesperia: An American National Poem. I-XII, Volume 1

Harry Lyman Koopman - 1919 - 648 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, I could bu\ mark : The leaves of memory seemed to make A mournful rustling in the dark. Oft died the words...
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The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1922 - 910 pages
...never can be one again ; The first slight swerving of the heart, That words are powerless to express, The very tones in which we spake Had something strange,...the words upon our lips, As suddenly, from out the flre Built of the wreck of stranded ships, The flames would leap and then expire. And, as their splendor...
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HOYT'S NEW CYCLOPEDIA OF PRACTICAL QUOTATIONS

KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...I'll tell Mama," And that's my earliest recollection. FRED. IX>CKER-LAMPSON — A Terrible Infant. 13 LONGFELLOW— The Fire of Drift-Wood. 14 The heart hath its own memory, like the mind, And in it are...
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Modern Eloquence: A Library of the World's Best Spoken Thought, Volume 14

Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1928 - 494 pages
...winged chalice of thy soul Thy lamp, O Memory, fire-winged to its goal. — DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI. The leaves of memory seemed to make A mournful rustling in the dark. — LONGFELLOW. When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past,...
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Psychotherapy and the Memorable Patient

E. Mark Stern, William Kir-Stimon - 1986 - 178 pages
...vignette encompasses. in disguised case form, a series of issues that arise in psychotherapeutic practice. The leaves of memory seemed to make A mournful rustling in the dark. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Fire of Driftwood The scene: the main lobby of a busy center-city hotel....
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Nineteenth-Century American Poetry

Various - 1996 - 496 pages
...words are powerless to express, And leave it still unsaid in part, Or say it in too great excess. 25 The very tones in which we spake Had something strange,...memory seemed to make A mournful rustling in the dark. Built of the wreck of stranded ships, The flames would leap and then expire. And, as their splendor...
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