 Our lives are rivers, gliding free To that unfathomed, boundless sea, The silent grave ! Thither all earthly pomp and boast Roll, to be swallowed up and lost In one dark wave. Thither the mighty torrents stray, Thither the brook pursues its way, And tinkling...  Outre-mer: A Pilgrimage Beyond the Sea - Page 82by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1835Full view - About this book
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1870 - 642 pages
...not decay; Fleeting as were the dreams of old, Remembered like a tale that's told, They pass away. Our lives are rivers, gliding free To that unfathomed,...poor man and the son of pride Lie calm and still. I will not here invoke the throng Of orators and sons of song, The deathless few ; Fiction entices... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1872 - 730 pages
...not decay; Fleeting as were the dreams of old, Remembered like a talc that'n told. They pass away. Our lives are rivers, gliding free To that unfathomed,...poor man and the son of pride Lie calm and still. I will not here invoice the throng Of orators and sons of song, The deathless few ; Fiction entices... | |
 | Literary bouquet - 1872 - 180 pages
...of a new dynasty of thinkers — sealed up an old epoch and unsealed a new. Samuel Neil. OUR LIVES. OUR lives are rivers, gliding free To that unfathomed,...poor man and the son of pride Lie calm and still. Longfellow. THE LIGHT OF STARS. THE night is come, but not too soon; And sinking silently, All silently,... | |
 | Poetry - 1872 - 710 pages
...some come in. -Zip. HoTUG, 2150. LIFE, Way of. Our lives arc rivers, gliding free To that unfathomcd, 0. Manrique. 2151. LKlHT, A Bhuung. ЕР1ТАРП OF A VANISHED ST VIL So said, he raised, according to... | |
 | Readers - 1884 - 794 pages
...dash themselves to pieces. Shak*peare. He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green. Bacon. Our lives are rivers, gliding free To that unfathomed,...Roll, to be swallowed up and lost In one dark wave. Longfellow. Known mischiefs have their cure, but doubts have none; And better is despair than fruitless... | |
 | George Ticknor - Spanish literature - 1872 - 608 pages
...brooding in solitude over his sorrows, does not even look round for consolation. He says, in his grief,— Our lives are rivers, gliding free To that unfathomed,...silent grave ; Thither all earthly pomp and boast Boll, to be swallowed up and lost In one dark wave. Thither the mighty torrents stray, Thither the... | |
 | Charles C. Jones - 1873 - 622 pages
...engulfed in the great ocean of oblivion. rique entered with peculiar pathos into our saddened thoughts. " Our lives are rivers gliding free To that unfathomed,...poor man and the son of pride Lie calm and still." We conclude this account of the more prominent traces of early constructive skill by an allusion to... | |
 | Charles Colcock Jones - Georgia - 1873 - 622 pages
...ManROCK-WALLS, ENCLOSURES, ETC. 207 rique entered with peculiar pathos into our saddened thoughts. " Our lives are rivers gliding free To that unfathomed,...poor man and the son of pride Lie calm and still." We conclude this account of the more prominent traces of early constructive skill by an allusion to... | |
 | Charles Colcock Jones - Georgia - 1873 - 660 pages
...peculiar pathos into our saddened thoughts. " Our lives are rivers gliding free To that unfathoraed, boundless sea — The silent grave. Thither all earthly...poor man and the son of pride Lie calm and still." We conclude this account of the more prominent traces of early constructive skill by an allusion to... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1873 - 632 pages
...not decay ; Fleeting as were the dreams of old, Remembered like a tale that 's told, They pass away. Our lives are rivers, gliding free To that unfathomed,...one dark wave. Thither the mighty torrents stray, Thithur the brook pursues its way, And tinkling rill. There all are equal ; side by side The poor man... | |
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