 In all places, then, and in all seasons, Flowers expand their light and soullike wings, Teaching us, by most persuasive reasons, How akin they are to human things. And with childlike, credulous affection We behold their tender buds expand ; Emblems of...  Longfellow Day by Day - Page 56by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1906 - 136 pagesFull view - About this book
 | American periodicals - 1837 - 578 pages
...crumbling towers, Speaking of the Past unto the Present, Tell us of the ancient Games of Flowers.* In all places, then, and in all seasons, Flowers expand...resurrection, Emblems of the bright and better land. CtmbrUg, 0ai«r.ily. H W- LONGFELLOW. GEOGRAPHICAL DISTINCTIONS OF COLOR. ' Look through nature up... | |
 | American periodicals - 1837 - 580 pages
...us of the ancient Games of Flowers.* In all places, then, and in all seasons, Flowers expand thcir light and soul-like wings, Teaching us, by most persuasive...are to human things. And with child-like, credulous affuotion, We behold their tender buds expand, Emblems of our own great resurrection, Embleme of the... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Digital images - 1839 - 174 pages
...crumbling towers, Speaking of the Past unto the Present, Tell us of the ancient Games of Flowers ; In all places, then, and in all seasons, Flowers expand...resurrection, Emblems of the bright and better land. •''-,..-'.. fo :.:.-... /. •»• '„. ' ' I .1 I • ffcift i*-^^--*-. »•• •»' Vi.f.... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1840 - 182 pages
...crumbling towers, Speaking of the Past unto the Present, Tell us of the ancient Games of Flowers ; In all places, then, and in all seasons, Flowers expand...most persuasive reasons, How akin they are to human tilings. And with childlike, credulous affection We behold their tender buds expand ; Emblems of our... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - Civilization - 1840 - 464 pages
...garden was chosen for the place of his sepulture, amid the flowers which the American poet justly calls Emblems of our own great resurrection, Emblems of the bright and better land. The asceticism which closes its eyes against the loveliness of nature, and which boasts that it can... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - Civilization - 1841 - 348 pages
...garden was chosen for the place of his sepulture, amid the flowers which the American poet justly calls Emblems of our own great resurrection, Emblems of the bright and better land. The asceticism which closes its eyes against the loveliness of nature, and which boasts that it can... | |
 | 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
...crumbling towers, Speaking of the Past unto the Present, Tell us of the ancient Games of Flowers ; In all places, then, and in all seasons, Flowers expand...childlike, credulous affection We behold their tender huds expand ; Emblems of our own great resurrection, Emblems of the bright and better land. , THE BELEAGUERED... | |
 | Church of the Disciples (Boston, Mass.) - Hymns, English - 1844 - 582 pages
...great world of ours ; Making evident our own creation In these stars of earth, these golden flowers. 3 And with childlike, credulous affection, We behold...resurrection, Emblems of the bright and better land ! 374 7 & 6s. M. CHRISTIAN BALLADS. ©ur Countrg. 1 Now pray we for our country, Pray that it long... | |
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