 | James Cargill Guthrie - Legends - 1875 - 550 pages
...served effectually to soothe and comfort him after the fatiguing toils and labours of the day : — " The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings...feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight. " Come, read to me some poem, Some simple and heart-felt lay, That shall soothe this restless feeling.... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...review the scene, And summon from the shadowy Past The forms that once have been. A Gleam of Sunshine. The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings...feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight. The Day is Done. A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only... | |
 | William Browning Morgan - 1875 - 104 pages
...treaties and oaths. 11. Write out the substance of the following passage in simple prose order : — The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, 1 see the lights of the village Gleam through the rain and the mist, ' And a feeling of sadness comes... | |
 | Analysis - 1876 - 72 pages
...may, Old Time is still a-flying; And that same flower that blooms to-day To-morrow shall be dying. 23. The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of night. As a feather is wafted downwards I'rom an eagle in its flight. 27. I sat and watched her many a day. When her eyes grew dim'and... | |
 | Augusta Jane Evans - 1879 - 532 pages
...hands behind her, slowly repeated the beautiful lines, beginning : "The day is done, and the darknes* Falls from the wings of night, As a feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight." Her voice was low and musical, and as she concluded the short poem which seemed so singularly suited... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1876 - 522 pages
...by the citation of the Pr8e«i to Mr. Longfellow's "Waif" : THK day is done, and the darkness P'alls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward .From an Eagle in his night. I see the lights of the village Gleam through the rain and the mist, And a feeling of sadness... | |
 | Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary, Mary Clemmer - 1876 - 468 pages
...emotion into a material fact, is found in a verse from her parody on Longfellow's beautiful lyric : — " I see the lights of the village Gleam through the rain and mist, And a feeling of sadness comes o'er me, That my soul cannot resist ; A feeling of sadness and... | |
 | Alice Cary, Mary Clemmer - 1876 - 464 pages
...into a material fact, is found in a verse | from her parody on Longfellow's beautiful lyric : — " I see the lights of the village Gleam through the rain and mist, And a feeling of sadness comes o'er me, That my soul cannot resist ; A feeling of sadness and... | |
 | Chicago (Ill.). Board of Education - Education - 1877 - 182 pages
...again." (j credits.) 2. " I spied a man whose aged step Seemed weary worn with care." (j credits.) 3. "I see the lights of the village Gleam through the...sadness comes o'er me, That my soul cannot resist." (5 credits.) 4. " Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in noother." (5 credits.) 5.... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1877 - 362 pages
...Sweet DAY, so cool, so calm, so bright. The bridal of the earth and sky. — G. HERRERT, Virtue. — The DAY is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings...feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight. — LONGFELLOW, Tfa Day is Done, Days. — My DAVS are in the yellow leaf ; The flowers ar:d frult-а... | |
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The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward From an Eagle in his flight. I see the lights of the village Gleam through the rain and the mist, And a feeling of sadness comes o'er me, That my soul cannot... 
