 EXCELSIOR. THE shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device, Excelsior ! His brow was sad ; his eye beneath, Flashed like a falchion from its sheath, And...  Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Page 38by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1880 - 417 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Ewing - 1857 - 428 pages
...than the sphery chime ; Or if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her. MILTON. 47. — EXCELSIOR. THE shades of night were falling fast,...and ice, A banner with the strange device, Excelsior 1 His brow was sad ; his eye beneath Flashed like a falchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 488 pages
...retribution, which came not before Cromwell slept in his grave UNOARD. CXXXIII. — EXCELSIOR." 1. TUB shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine...and ice, A banner with the strange device, Excelsior ! 2. His brow was sad ; his eye beneath Flashed like a falchion from its sheath, And like a silver... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1858 - 292 pages
...Bear through sorrow, wrong, and ruth, In thy heart the dew of youth, On thy lips the smile of truth. O that dew, like balm, shall steal Into wounds that...many a sunless heart, For a smile of God thou art." What is all the polished or eloquent language of orators and philosophers compared with <the expression... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1858 - 642 pages
...jovial monks forbore, For they cried, "Fill high the goblel '. We must drink to one Saint more:" 173 EXCELSIOR. THE shades of night were falling fast....with the strange device, Excelsior ! His brow was sad ; his eye beneath, Flashed like a falehion from its sheath. And like a silver clarion rung The aecents... | |
 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 pages
...the seed Of future good and future meed; Esteeming sorrow, whose employ Is to develope, not destroy, EXCELSIOR. The shades of night were falling fast,...with the strange device, Excelsior ! His brow was sad ! his eye beneath, Flashed like a falchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 752 pages
...this commonweal, Till the vast temple of our liberties A shapeless mass of wreck and rubbish lies. EXCELSIOR. The shades of night were falling fast,...with the strange device, Excelsior ! His brow was sad ; his eye beneath Flashed like a falchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 812 pages
...through sorrow, wrong, and ruth. In thy heart the dew of youth, On thy lips the smile of truth. Oh, that dew, like balm, shall steal Into wounds that...many a sunless heart, For a smile of God thou art. THE WARNING. Beware ! The Israelite of old, who tore The lion in his path, — when, poor and blind,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1859 - 724 pages
...through sorrow, wrong, and ruth, In thy heart the dew of youth, On thy lips the smile of truth. O, that dew, like balm, shall steal Into wounds, that...many a sunless heart, For a smile of God thou art. EXCELSIOE. THE shades of night were falling fast, As through, an Alpine village passed A youth, who... | |
 | Harvey Marriott - 1859 - 284 pages
...: This is the field and Acre of our GOD ; This is the place where human harvests grow ! LONGFELLOW. EXCELSIOR. THE shades of night were falling fast,...with the strange device, Excelsior ! His brow was sad ; his eye beneath Flashed like a falchion from its sheath ; And like a silver clarion rung The accents... | |
 | John Mather Austin - 1859 - 268 pages
...with peace and joy. I exhort the young to adopt the noble motto of the coat-of-arma of New York— " EXCELSIOR !" " The shades of night were falling fast,...and ice, A banner with the strange device, EXCELSIOR !" Let it be the aim of every youth to lift aloft this glorious banner, and soar upward to a surpassing... | |
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