 And the voices of the Night Wake the better soul, that slumbered, To a holy, calm delight ; Ere the evening lamps are lighted, And, like phantoms grim and tall, Shadows from the fitful fire-light Dance upon the parlor wall ; Then the forms of the departed...  Chambers's Edinburgh Journal - Page 1941844Full view - About this book
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1906 - 204 pages
...; But to their eyes transfigured, it seemed as the Garden of Eden, Filled with the presence of God. THE forms of the departed Enter at the open door —...beloved, the true hearted Come to visit me once more. "VY7ED a maiden of your people. Like a fire upon the hearthstone Is a neighbor's homely daughter; Like... | |
 | Freemasons. Grand Lodge of the State of New York - 1906 - 598 pages
...are lighted, And like phantoms grim and tall, Shadows from the fitful firelight Dance upon the parlor wall. " Then the forms of the departed Enter at the open door ; The beloved, the true-hearted, Come to visit us once more." The deepest and most fruitful experiences of life have oftentimes... | |
 | John M. Todd - 1906 - 350 pages
...lighted, And, like phantoms grim and tall, Shadows from the fitful firelight Dance upon the parlor wall ; Then the forms of the departed Enter at the open door ; The beloved, the true-hearted, Come to visit me once more. He, the young and strong, who cherished Noble longings for... | |
 | Daniel Harvey Hill, Frank Lincoln Stevens, Charles William Burkett - 1906 - 424 pages
...lighted, And, like phantoms grim and tall, Shadows from the fitful firelight 5 Dance upon the parlor wall; Then the forms of the departed Enter at the open door; The beloved, the true-hearted, Come to visit me once more; 10 He, the young and strong, who cherished Noble longings... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1906 - 162 pages
...numbered, And the voices of the Night Wake the better soul, that slumbered, To a holy, calm delight ; Then the forms of the departed Enter at the open door ; The beloved, the true-hearted, Come to visit me once more. • . Footsteps of Angels OCTOBER TWENTY-NINTH It was Autumn,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1906 - 156 pages
...numbered, And the voices of the Night Wake the better soul, that slumbered, To a holy, calm delight ; Then the forms of the departed Enter at the open door ; The beloved, the true-hearted, Come to visit me once more. Footsteps of Angels OCTOBER TWENTY-NINTH It was Autumn, and... | |
 | August Strindberg - 1906 - 162 pages
...are lighted, And like spectres grim and tall, Shadows from the fitful firelight Dance upon the parlor wall, 'Then the forms of the departed Enter at the open door; The belov'd ones, the true-hearted Come to sit with me once more. 'And with them the being beauteous 'With... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1907 - 116 pages
...tall, Shadows from the fitful firelight Dance upon the parlor wall; The beloved, the true-hearted, Come to visit me once more; He, the young and strong, who cherished Noble longings for the strife, By the roadside fell and perished, Weary with the march of life! They, the... | |
 | Arthur Chambers - 1907 - 264 pages
...recalls the painful longings for the sight of a vanished face, and reopens the fountain of our grief — "Then the forms of the Departed Enter at the open door The beloved, the true-hearted, Come to visit me once more. With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine,... | |
 | William Stebbing - 1907 - 428 pages
...offended by a lack of originality and profundity, as in Footsteps of Angels, when in the firelit dusk, the forms of the departed Enter at the open door ; The beloved, the true-hearted, Come to visit me once more ; 4 in the reminiscence of a walk to church with thee, O gentlest... | |
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