 ... Beautiful, entire, and clean. Else our lives are incomplete, Standing in these walls of Time, Broken stairways, where the feet Stumble as they seek to climb. Build to-day, then, strong and sure, With a firm and ample base ; And ascending and secure...  Poems, selected from the best editions - Page 173by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1880Full view - About this book
 | Henry Coppée - 1867 - 586 pages
...and ample base ; And ascending and secure Shall to-morrow find its place. Thus alone can we attain To those turrets, where the eye Sees the world as...one boundless reach of sky. SAND OF THE DESERT IN AN HOUE-GLASS. LomtfELLOW. A HA.VDFUL of red sand, from the hot clime Of Arab deserts brought, Within... | |
 | John A. Wallace - 1867 - 240 pages
...firm and ample base, And ascending and secure Shall to-morrow find its place. Thus alone can we attain To those turrets, where the eye Sees the world as one vast plain, And one boundless reach of sky.' VII. EARLY RISING. 4 Jacob rose up early in the morning.' — GEN. xxvni. 18. ' I myself will awake... | |
 | John A. Wallace - 1867 - 296 pages
...firm and ample base, And ascending and secure Shall to-morrow find its place. Thus alone can we attain To those turrets, where the eye Sees the world as one vast plain, And one boundless reach of sky.' f VII. EARLY RISING. ' Jacob rose up early in the morning.' — GEN. xxvm. 18. ' I myself will awake... | |
 | Charles Dexter CLEVELAND - 1868 - 344 pages
...and ample base ; And ascending and secure Shall to-morrow find its place. Thus alone can we attain To those turrets where the eye Sees the world as one vast plain, And one boundless reach of sky. Henry W. Longfellow. CXXVI1I. A PSALM OF LIFE. TELL me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1868 - 410 pages
...and ample base ; And ascending and secure Shall to-morrow find its place. Thus alone can we attain To those turrets, where the eye Sees the world as one vast plain, And one boundless reach of t,ky. SONNET ON MRS. KEMBLE'S READINGS FROM SHAKSPEARE. O PRECIOUS evenings! all too swiftly sped !... | |
 | William Phillips Tilden - 1868 - 122 pages
...base ; And ascending and secure, Shall to-morrow find its place. Thus alone can we attain To tbose turrets, where the eye Sees the world as one vast plain, And one boundless reach of sky. Longfellow. THREE WORDS OF STRENGTH. THERE are three lessons I would write, — Three words, as with... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1870 - 642 pages
...and ample base ; And ascending and secure Shall to-morrow find its place. Thus alone can we attain To those turrets, where the eye Sees the world as one vast plain, And one boundless reach of sky. SONNET. ON MRS KEMBLE'S READINGS FROM sHAKsrEARE. O PRECIOUS evenings ! all too swiftly sped ! Leaving... | |
 | 1870 - 300 pages
...and ample base ; And ascending and secure Shall to-morrow find its place. Thus alone can we attain To those turrets, where the eye Sees the world as one vast plain, And one boundless reach of sky. ' 's Conwr. I WISH I WERE RICH. "I WISH I were rich, I would buy everything," cried Charlie. " The... | |
 | Joseph Barlow Felt - 1870 - 484 pages
...the present, but stretches with far reaching glance back over the misty landscape of the past — " Sees the world as one vast plain, And one boundless reach of sky." NECROLOGY OF NEW-ENGLAND COLLEGES, 1868-9. [Compiled by the Editor.] AllimtST COLLEGE.1 Cla»> of 1824.... | |
 | 1871 - 314 pages
...and ample base ; And ascending and secure Shall to-morrow find its place. Thus alone can we attain To those turrets, where the eye Sees the world as one vast plain, And one boundless reach of sky. THE OPEN WINDOW. ' I ''JHhi old house by the lindens _L Stood silent in the shade, And on the gravelled... | |
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