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" Brought in the olden time from France, and since, as an heirloom, Handed down from mother to child, through long generations. But a celestial brightness — a more ethereal beauty — Shone on her face and encircled her form, when, after confession, Homeward... "
American Poems: Longfellow: Whittier: Bryant: Holmes: Lowell: Emerson - Page 18
edited by - 1879 - 455 pages
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A will and a way, Volume 1

lady Georgiana Charlotte Fullerton - 1881 - 330 pages
...brightness — a more ethereal beauty— Shone on her face and encircled her form, when, after confession, Homeward serenely she walked with God's benediction...passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.' Others followed, old men and children, peasant women, and men of the world. She saw her aged father...
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A Dictionary of Quotations from English and American Poets

Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - 1911 - 784 pages
...Golden Legend. Pt. ii. A noble type of good Heroic womanhood. 5814 Longfellow: Santa Filomena. St. 11. When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music. 5815 Longfellow: Evangeline. Pt. I. i. Line 62. Thou art a woman, And that is saying the best and worst...
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History of American Literature

Reuben Post Halleck - 1911 - 446 pages
...Evangeline appears, our interest does not lag. " Fair was she to behold, that maiden of seventeen summers. When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music." The imagery of the poem is pleasing, no matter whether we are listening to " the murmuring pines and...
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Empire Club Speeches, Volume 18

1921 - 546 pages
...here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass. And that fine line from Longfellow : When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music. And then that wonderful language of a fellow countryman, in part, of mine, as well as of my own friend...
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American Poems (1625-1892)

Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1912 - 696 pages
...brightness, a more ethereal beauty, Shone on her face and encircled her form when, after confession, 60 Homeward serenely she walked with God's benediction...by the door, with a woodbine wreathing around it. 65 Rudely carved was the porch, with seats beneath; and a footpath Led through an orchard wide, and...
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The Art of Rendering: A Condensed and Comprehensive Treatise on the Culture ...

Frank Honywell Fenno - 1912 - 348 pages
...France, and since, as an heirloom, Shone on her face and encircled her form, when after confession, Homeward serenely she walked with God's benediction...passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music. MAKY. HW LONGFELLOW. Of the new-comers, there was a group over by the south wall, consisting of a man,...
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Burton Dane

Alfred E. Chirm - 1912 - 300 pages
...a multitude, is dear old John, and an anchor in time of storm." 23 II I THE INCARNATION OF AN IDEAL When she had passed it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music. Longfellow THE two friends left the clubhouse and descended to the lake where Burton again paused to...
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A History of American Literature

William B. Cairns - 1912 - 520 pages
...a device too far, as often in "Hiawatha," and in the sibilant line often quoted from "Evangeline," When she had passed it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music. On the other hand his taste never failed him altogether; and often his verses have a haunting quality...
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Standard Catholic Readers by Grades: Third-[seventh] years

Mary E. Doyle - 1913 - 240 pages
...• — a more ethereal beauty — Shone on her face, and encircled her form, when, after confession, Homeward serenely she walked with God's benediction...by the door, with a woodbine wreathing around it. Rudely carved was the porch, with seats beneath ; and a footpath Led through an orchard wide, and disappeared...
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Studies in American Authors: Bryant, Longfellow, Whittier, Lowell, Lanier ...

W. C. Smith - 1913 - 194 pages
...Dante. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic. Homeward serenely she walked with God's benediction...passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music. Silently one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots...
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