| John Hutton Balfour - 1859 - 492 pages
...executing some new design — so lavish is the fancy, yet so exact is the process of nature. " Spake full well, in language quaint and olden. One who dwelleth...the castled Rhine, When he called the flowers, so hlue and golden, Stars, that in earth's firmament do shine. Stars they are, wherein we read our history,... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Gilbert - 1860 - 448 pages
...depressed and lonely, AJ1 my fears are laid aside, If I but remember only FLOWERS. full well, iil Innguoge quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled...awful mystery. Like the burning stars, which they bcheld. Wondrous truths, and manifold as wondrous, God hath written in those stars above ; But not... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1860 - 506 pages
...my fears are laid aside, If I but remember only Such as these have lived and died ! FLOWERS. SPAKE full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth...of eld ; Yet not wrapped about with awful mystery, Lake the burning stars, which they beheld. Wondrous truths, and manifold as wondrous, God hath written... | |
| Marcius Willson - 1860 - 368 pages
...PHYSIOLOGY, OE BOTANY. LESSON XX. FLOWERS, THE STABS OF EARTH. 1. Spake full well, in language quaint1 and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine,...golden', Stars', that in earth's firmament do shine. 2. Stars they are, wherein we read our history, As astrologers2 and seers3 of eld ;* Yet not wrapped... | |
| Marcius Willson - 1860 - 372 pages
...forever." LEIGH HUNT. LESSON XX. V FLOWERS, THE STAES OF EARTH. 1. Spake full well, in language quaint 1 and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine,...golden', Stars' , that in earth's firmament do shine. 2. Stars they are, wherein we read our history, As astrologers 2 and seers 3 of eld ;* Yet not wrapped... | |
| 1863 - 568 pages
...dwellers in a bye street. The poet Longfellow has written of flowers in this same spirit : — " Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Khine, When he called the flowers so blue and golden Stars, that in earth's firmament do shine. And... | |
| Lucy Hooper - 1860 - 296 pages
...thoughts. In the language of poetry, they are called by one of our American poets Professor Longfellow, " The flowers, so blue and golden, STARS, that in Earth's firmament do snine. "Wondrous truths, and manifold as wondrous, God hath written in those stars above ; But not... | |
| Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...spirit heal'd and harmonized By the benignant touch of love and beauty. COLERIDGE. s, % Sfars of SPAKE full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine, When he call'tl the flowers, so blue and golden, Stars, that in earth's firmament do shine. Stars they are,... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1862 - 548 pages
...my fears are laid aside, If I but remember only Such as these have lived and died ! FLOWERS. SPAKE full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth...as wondrous, God hath written in those stars above ; Bat not less in the bright flowerets under us Stands the revelation of his love. Bright and glorious... | |
| 1864 - 576 pages
...certainly," said Challoner turning towards them "I agree with what Longfellow says somewhere : " Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth...golden, Stars, that in earth's firmament do shine." "Then I shall leave you to your serious talk," said his sister, "only be sure that you choose a fine... | |
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