 | 1847 - 540 pages
...silence now Is brooding, like a gentle spirit, o'er The still and pulseless world. GD PRENTICE. 31. Ere the evening lamps are lighted, And, like phantoms grim and tall, Shadows from the fitful fireside Dance upon the parlour wall. HW LONGFELLOW. 32. Night's starry host gather'd in brightness... | |
 | Timothy Stone Pinneo - 1847 - 502 pages
...knelt on that sad spot, And weeping, blessed the God who gave Strength to forsake it not ! MRS. HEHAHS. WHEN the hours of day are numbered, And the voices...door ; 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... | |
 | Cotesworth Pinckney - 1848 - 142 pages
...hither — FOOTSTEPS OF ANGELS. WHEN the hours of day are numbered, And the voice of the night Wakes the better soul that slumbered, To a holy, calm delight...of the departed Enter at the open door, The beloved ones — the true-hearted, Come to visit me once more ; He, the young and strong, who cherished Noble... | |
 | 1848 - 460 pages
...the night Wake tiie hetter soul that slumtiered, To a holy, calm delight— Ere the evening lamps arc lighted, And, like phantoms grim and tall, Shadows,...fire-light, Dance upon the parlor wall — Then the forme of the departed Enter at the open door; The ileloved ones, the true hearted, Come to visit me... | |
 | 1851 - 824 pages
...of the first ¡s the universally popular poem of " The Footsteps of Angels." The scene begins with "And like phantoms grim and tall, Shadows from the fitful firelight Dance upon the parlor wall." This is indicated in the back ground. The middle ground represents " The. forms of the departed." In... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 462 pages
...resolute and calm. 0 fear not in a world like this, And thou shalt know ere long, FOOTSTEPS OF ANGELS. WHEN the hours of Day are numbered, And the voices...Shadows from the fitful fire-light Dance upon the parlour wall ; Then the forms of the departed Enter at the open door ; The beloved, the true-hearted,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 500 pages
...thou shalt know ere long, Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong. FOOTSTEPS OF ANGELS. WHEN the hours of Day are numbered, And the voices...Shadows from the fitful fire-light Dance upon the parlour wall ; Then the forms of the departed Enter at the open door ; The beloved, the true-hearted,... | |
 | Thomas Vincent Fosbery - 1850 - 416 pages
...Into the land of everlasting light. Cfir Communion of Saints ; FOOTSTEPS OF ANGELS. HW LONGFELLOW. WHEN the hours of day are numbered, And the voices...tall, Shadows from the fitful firelight Dance upon the parlour wall ; Then the forms of the departed Enter at the open door ; The beloved, the true-hearted,... | |
 | Garland - 1850 - 152 pages
...she holds with thee Mysterious intercourse, And though remembrance wakes a tear, FOOTSTEPS OF ANGELS. When the hours of day are numbered, And the voices...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... | |
 | University magazine - 1850 - 816 pages
...day road anything more affecting than — " THE FOOTSTEPS OF ANGi:LS." " Wlu-ii the hours of day arc numbered, And the voices of the night Wake the better soul that slumbered To a holy calm delight : " К re I he evening lamps ¡ire lighted, Ami, like phantom* grim and tall, s:¡ailuws from the fitful... | |
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WHEN the hours of Day are numbered, 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... 
