 And strive to make my steps keep pace with thine. The air is filled with some unknown perfume; The congregation of the dead make room For thee to pass; the votive tapers shine; Like rooks that haunt Ravenna's groves of pine The hovering echoes fly from...  The Stronger: A Play in One Act - Page 69by August Strindberg - 1906 - 4 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sara Agnes Ryan - 1913 - 496 pages
...tapers shine ; Like rooks that haunt Ravenna's groves of pine The hovering echoes fly from tomb to tomb. From the confessionals I hear arise Rehearsals of forgotten tragedies, And lamentations from the crypt below; And then a voice celestial, that begins With the pathetic words, 'Although your sins As... | |
 | Laura Emma Lockwood - 1916 - 140 pages
...tapers shine; Like rooks that haunt Ravenna's groves of pine The hovering echoes fly from tomb to tomb. From the confessionals I hear arise Rehearsals of...sins As scarlet be," and ends with "as the snow." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. A WRETCHED THING IT WERE, TO HAVE OUR HEART A WRETCHED thing it were, to... | |
 | LAURA E. LOCKWOOD, Ph.D - 1916 - 140 pages
...tapers shine; Like rooks that haunt Ravenna's groves of pine The hovering echoes fly from tomb to tomb. From the confessionals I hear arise Rehearsals of...sins As scarlet be," and ends with "as the snow." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 45 A WRETCHED THING IT WERE, TO HAVE OUR HEART A WRETCHED thing it were,... | |
 | Percy Holmes Boynton - 1918 - 750 pages
...tapers shine ; Like rooks that haunt Ravenna's groves of pine The hovering echoes fly from tomb to tomb. From the confessionals I hear arise Rehearsals of...begins «° With the pathetic words, "Although your AS scarlet be," and ends with "as the \ snow." 1865. 1866. IV With snow-white veil and garments as... | |
 | Percy Holmes Boynton, Howard Mumford Jones, George Sherburn, Frank Martindale Webster - 1918 - 748 pages
...tapers shine; Like rooks that haunt Ravenna's groves of pine The hovering echoes fly from tomb to tomb. From the confessionals I hear arise Rehearsals of...crypts below ; And then a voice celestial that begins 4° With the pathetic words, "Although your sins As scarlet be," and ends with "as the snow." 1865.... | |
 | Harry Lyman Koopman - 1919 - 648 pages
...tapers shine ; Like rooks that haunt Ravenna's groves of pine The hovering echoes fly from tomb to tomb. From the confessionals I hear arise Rehearsals of...sins As scarlet' be," and ends with " as the snow." WITH snow-white veil and garments as of flame, She stands before thee, who so long ago Filled thy young... | |
 | 1919 - 966 pages
...echoes fly from tomb to tomb. From the confessionals I hear arise Rehearsals of forgotten tragedies, I0 nd lamentations from the crypts below ; And then a...As scarlet be,' and ends with ' as the snow.' (18 (1865) (1866) V I lift mine eyes, and all the windows blaze With forms of Saints and holy men who died,... | |
 | Fred Lewis Pattee - 1922 - 364 pages
...tapers shine ; Like rooks that haunt Ravenna's groves of pine The hovering echoes fly from tomb to tomb. From the confessionals I hear arise Rehearsals of...sins As scarlet be," and ends with "as the snow." It shows itself in his Fichte-drawn message of consolation: be resigned, all is Providence. It shows... | |
 | Fred Lewis Pattee - 1922 - 360 pages
...tapers shine ; Like rooks that haunt Ravenna's groves of pine The hovering echoes fly from tomb to tomb. From the confessionals I hear arise Rehearsals of...sins As scarlet be," and ends with "as the snow." It shows itself in his Fichte-drawn message of consolation: be resigned, all is Providence. It shows... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1922 - 910 pages
...tapers shine; Like rooks that haunt Ravenna's groves of pine The hovering echoes fly from tomb to tomb. From the confessionals I hear arise Rehearsals of...tragedies, And lamentations from the crypts below; And thru a voice celestial that begins With the pathetic words, *AU though your sins As scarlet be,' and... | |
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