| 1837 - 580 pages
...bird and beast alone ; But in old cathedrals, high and hoary, In lhe cottage of the rudest peasant, In ancestral homes, whose crumbling towers, Speaking...all places, then, and in all seasons, Flowers expand thcir light and soul-like wings, Teaching us, by most persuasive reasons, How akin they are to human... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1840 - 182 pages
...cathedrals, high and hoary, On the tombs of heroes, carved in stone ; In the cottage of the rudest peasant, In ancestral homes, whose crumbling towers, Speaking...most persuasive reasons, How akin they are to human tilings. And with childlike, credulous affection We behold their tender buds expand ; Emblems of our... | |
| 1870 - 406 pages
...ourselves, that they, like the flowers, though buried long, will bloom again in a sunnier clime. " In all places, then, and in all seasons, Flowers expand their light and soul-like wings, Teaching us, by the most persuasive reasons, How akin they are to human things. And with childlike credulous affection,... | |
| 1872 - 516 pages
...mission, they all have something to say to us, either in the way of comfort, or rebuke, or instruction. " In all places then, and in all seasons, Flowers expand their light and soul like wings, Teaching us, by the most persuasive reasons, How akin they are to human things. And... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1843 - 174 pages
...cathedrals, high and hoary, On the tombs of heroes, carved in stone ; In the cottage of the rudest peasant, In ancestral homes, whose crumbling towers, Speaking...childlike, credulous affection We behold their tender huds expand ; Emblems of our own great resurrection, Emblems of the bright and better land. , THE BELEAGUERED... | |
| George Luxford, Edward Newman - 1845 - 400 pages
...cathedrals high and hoary On the tombs of heroes carved in stone. In the cottage of the rudest peasant, In ancestral homes whose crumbling towers Speaking...persuasive reasons How akin they are to human things." On an island near that already mentioned, and separated from it only by a narrow strait, are the ruins... | |
| George Luxford, Edward Newman - 1845 - 438 pages
...cathedrals high and hoary On the tombs of heroes carved in stone. In the cottage of the rudest peasant, In ancestral homes whose crumbling towers Speaking...us of the ancient games of flowers. In all places theu and in all seasons Flowers expand their light and soul-like wings, Teaching us by most persuasive... | |
| 1845 - 336 pages
...this sweet text, the closing stanzas of which will form our appropriate and graceful conclusion. " In all places then, and in all seasons, Flowers expand their light and soul-like wings, Teaching us hy most persuasive reasons, How akin they are to human things. "And with childlike, credulous affection,... | |
| 1873 - 398 pages
...this great world of ours ; Making evident our own creation, In these stars of earth — these golden flowers. In all places then, and in all seasons, Flowers...and soul-like wings, Teaching us, by most persuasive reason», How akin they are to human things. And with childlike, credulous affection, We behold their... | |
| 1891 - 672 pages
...the meaning of these words in the line of Longfellow (Ie) ? — In the cottage of the rudest peasant, In ancestral homes, whose crumbling towers, Speaking...unto the Present, Tell us of the ancient Games of Flower«. Do they refer to the games instituted in ancient Rome in honour of Flora, the goddess of... | |
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