 | Nathaniel Parker Willis - Europe - 1835 - 1350 pages
...boatman, after such a musing passage, to remember the poetical justice of Uhland in crossing the ferry : " Take, O boatman, thrice thy fee ! Take ! I give it willingly ; For, invisibly to.thee, Spirits tteaiTi have crossed with me !" I should have paid for one other seat, at least, by... | |
 | Hermann Bokum - Children - 1836 - 116 pages
...exclaim in the language of the poet— " Say, what binds us friend to friend, But that soul with sonl can blend ? Soul-like were those days of yore, Let us walk in soul once more !" Nor does the light of by-gone days and past joys only rend asunder the mists of the present; it... | |
 | English literature - 1836 - 172 pages
...Saddening thoughts of friends come o'er me, Friends that closed their course before me. But what hinds us friend to friend, But that soul with soul can blend? Soul-like were those hours of yore, Let us walk in soul once more. Take, O boatman, thrice thy fee, Take, I give it willingly,... | |
 | Nathaniel Parker Willis - American fiction - 1836 - 270 pages
...thing I remember is the German poet's thought when crossing the ferry to his wife and child. — " Take, O boatman ! thrice thy fee, Take, I give it willingly : For, invisibly to thet, Spiriti twyin have craned with me\" rears. I would lay my life she thinks at this instant have... | |
 | American periodicals - 1837 - 578 pages
...side, his arm in mine ; and a voice, like the tones of a spirit, seemed breathing in my ear : ' Yet what binds us, friend to friend, But that soul with soul can blend ? Soul-like were those hours of yore — Let us walk in soul once more.' Poor Shade ! He seemed ever to have a presentiment... | |
 | New York (N.Y.) - 1839 - 226 pages
...gone by Saddening thoughts of friends come o'er me— Friends who closed their course before me. Yet what binds us, friend to friend, But that soul with soul can blend 1 Soul-like were those hours of yore— Let us walk in soul once more ! Take, oh Boatman, thrice thv... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Europe - 1839 - 238 pages
...by, Saddening thoughts of friends come o'er me, — Friends, who closed their course before me. " Yet what binds us, friend to friend, But that soul with soul can blend ? Soul-like were those hours of yore ; Let us walk in soul once more ! " Take, O boatman, thrice thy fee ; Take, — I give... | |
 | Johnstone - English essays - 1840 - 386 pages
...what binds us, friend to friend ? 'Tis that soul with soul can blend ! Soul-fraught were those hours of yore ; Let us walk in soul once more ! " Take,...thrice thy fee, Take ; — I give it willingly ! For, invisible to thee, Spirits twain have cross'd with me." There is something sweet as well as sad even... | |
 | Willis Gaylord Clark - American literature - 1844 - 486 pages
...side, his arm in mine; and a voice, like the tones of a spirit, seemed breathing in my ear : ' YET what binds us, friend to friend, But that soul with soul can blend ? Soul-like were those hours of yore — Let us walk in soul once more.' Poor Shade! He seemed ever to have a presentiment... | |
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 482 pages
...days gone by, Saddening thoughts of friends come o'er me, Friends that closed their course before me. But what binds us friend to friend, But that soul with soul can blend ? Soul-like were those hours of yore; Let us walk in soul once more. Take, O boatman, thrice thy fee,— Take; I give it willingly... | |
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Yet what binds us, friend to friend, But that soul with soul can blend ? Soul-like were those hours of yore ; Let us walk in soul once more... 
