 By the trembling ladder, steep and tall, To the highest window in the wall, Where he paused to listen and look down A moment on the roofs of the town, And the moonlight flowing over all. Beneath, in the churchyard, lay the dead, In their...  An Evening with Longfellow - Page 100by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1907 - 111 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Stillman Hillard, Homer Baxter Sprague - Elocution - 1878 - 456 pages
...somber rafters, that round him made Masses and moving shapes of shade, — Up the light ladder, slender and tall, To the highest window in the wall, Where...churchyard, lay the dead In their night-encampment on the lull, Wrapped in silence so deep and still, That he could hear, like a sentinel's tread, The watchful... | |
 | Mother Angela Gillespie - Elocution - 1877 - 350 pages
...from their perch. On the somber rafters, that round him made Masses and moving shapes of shade — Up the trembling ladder, steep and tall, To the highest...roofs of the town, And the moonlight flowing over all. 6. Beneath, in the church-yard, lay the dead, In their night-encampment on the hill, Wrapped in silence... | |
 | Mother Angela Gillespie - Elocution - 1877 - 346 pages
...from their perch On the somber rafters, that round him made Masses and moving shapes of shade— Up the trembling ladder, steep and tall, To the highest...roofs of the town, And the moonlight flowing over all. 6. Beneath, in the church-yard, lay the dead, In their night-encampment on the hill, Wrapped in silence... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American literature - 1877 - 400 pages
...Masses and moving shapes of shade, — By the trembling laddert steep and tall, To the highest window m the wall, Where he paused to listen and look down...Beneath, in the churchyard, lay the dead, In their ni^ht-encarapment on the hill, Wrapped m silence so deep and still That he could hear, like a sentinel's... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - New Hampshire - 1883 - 446 pages
...the pigeons from their perch On the sombre rafters that round him made Masses and moving shapes of shade, — By the trembling ladder, steep and tall. To the highest window in the wall." This accomplished Newman came quickly down, passed through the church, jumped out at a back window,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American literature - 1878 - 450 pages
...rafters, that round him made Masses and moving shapes of shade, — By the trembling ladder, steep anil tall, To the highest window in the wall, Where he...on the hill, Wrapped in silence so deep and still f the North Church tower as a signal , That he could hear, like a sentinel's light, tread, The watchful... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1878 - 260 pages
...the pigeons from their perch On the sombre rafters, that round him made Masses and moving shapes of shade, — By the trembling ladder, steep and tall,...town, And the moonlight flowing over all. Beneath, inthe churchyard, lay the dead, In their night-encampment on the hill, Wrapped in silence so deep and... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - 1878 - 450 pages
...from their perch On the sombre rafters, that round him made Masses and moving shapes of shade, — Up the trembling ladder, steep and tall, To the highest...roofs of the town, And the moonlight flowing over all. 6. Beneath, in the church-yard, lay the dead, In their night encampment on the hill, Wrapped in silence... | |
 | Albert Newton Raub - Readers - 1878 - 444 pages
...from their perch On the sombre rafters, that round him made Masses and moving shapes of shade, — Up the trembling ladder, steep and tall, To the highest...roofs of the town, And the moonlight flowing over all. 6. Beneath, in the church-yard, lay the dead In their night encampment on the hill, Wrapped in silence... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1878 - 442 pages
...the pigeons from their perch On the sombre rafters, that round him made Masses and moving shapes of shade, — By the trembling ladder, steep and tall,...moment on the roofs of the town, And the moonlight flovving over all. Beneath, in the churchyard, lay the dead, In their night-encampment on the hill,... | |
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