 The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight. I see the lights of the village Gleam through the rain and the mist, And a feeling of sadness comes o'er me, That my soul cannot...  Oral English and Public Speaking - Page 55by Edwin Du Bois Shurter - 1918 - 247 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1864 - 538 pages
...light," and nothing more. All "Intellectual Observers" know Longfellow's exquisite poem beginning — " The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of light, As a feather is wafted downward From an eagle in its flight :" and as they repeat the last two... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1863 - 438 pages
...Till at length in books recorded, They, like hoarded Household words, no more depart. THE DAY IS DONE. THE day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings...rain and the mist, And a feeling of sadness comes o'er me, A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1864 - 712 pages
...Till at length in books recorded, They, like hoarded Household words, no more depart. THE DAY IS DONE. THE day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings...rain and the mist, And a feeling of sadness comes o'er me, That my soul cannot resist : A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1864 - 464 pages
...length in books recorded, They, like hoarded Household words, no more depart. THE DAY IS DONE. TICE day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings...eagle in his flight. I see the lights of the village Gl«am through the rain and the mist, And a feeling of sadness comes o'er me, That my soul cannot resist... | |
 | Frederick Hinde - 1864 - 150 pages
...America. The first constitutes the opening of his good lyric, " The Day is Done : " it stands thus :— " The Day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings...feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight ; " and the second closes that beautiful and airy production, the whole of which is strongly marked... | |
 | 1864 - 546 pages
...wuflcil downward From an eagle in ¡U flight ;" and as they repeat the last two lines, " We все the lights of the village Gleam through the rain and the mist," they will recall an experience common to all travelers, the memory of which may bring with it either... | |
 | 1864 - 444 pages
...light," and nothing more. All "Intellectual Observers" know Longfellow's exquisite poem beginning, " The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of light, As a feather is wafted downward From an eagle in its flight ;" and as they repeat the last two... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1864 - 596 pages
...light," and nothing more. All " Intellectual Observers " know Longfellow's exquisite poem beginning : »" The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of light, As a feather is wafted downward • From an eagle in its flight :" and as they repeat the last... | |
 | 1864 - 540 pages
...is wafted downward From an eagle in its flight :" and as they repeat the last two lines — " We sec the lights of the village Gleam through the rain and the mist," they will recall an experience common to all travellers, the memory of which may bring with it either... | |
 | Echoes - 1865 - 244 pages
...Thy love to see, Though all be dark, to follow Thee. MRS. HENRY LYNCH. CXXII. — THE DAY IS DONE. THE day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings...rain and the mist, And a feeling of sadness comes o'er me, That my soul cannot resist : A feeling of sadness and longing That is not akin to pain, And... | |
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