 THE shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device, Excelsior ! His brow was sad ; his eye beneath, Flashed like a falchion from its sheath, And like a silver...  An Evening with Longfellow - Page 43by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1907 - 111 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charlotte Phillips - English poetry - 1855 - 188 pages
...inmates poor enrol. EXCELSIOR. THE shade* of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village pass'd A youth, who bore 'mid snow and ice, A banner, with...rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior 1 In happy homes he saw the light Of household fires gleam warm and bright; Above, the spectral glaciers... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 472 pages
...that smile, like sunshine, dart Into many a sunless heart, For a smile of God thou art. EXCELSIOR. THE shades of night were falling fast, As through...His brow was sad ; his eye beneath Flashed like a faulchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 264 pages
...that smile, like sunshine, dart Into many a sunless heart, For a smfle of God thou ait. EXCELSIOR. The shades of night were falling fast, As through...with the strange device Excelsior ! His brow was sad ; bis eye beneath Flashed like a falchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung : The accents... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - American literature - 1855 - 474 pages
...device, Excelsior I nis brow wns sad ; his eye beneath H.; -bed like a falchion from its sheath, Ai.'l like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown...happy homes he saw the light Of household fires gleam worm and bright; Above, the spectral glaciers shone, And from hU lips escaped a groiin, Excelsior I... | |
 | N. Brittan, L. H. Sherwood - Hymns, English - 1855 - 400 pages
...cause, Shall firm to ages stand. No. 74. EXCELSIOR. Juvenile Choir, 126. Sheet Music, (Hutchison's.) 1. The shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore thro' snow and ice A banner, with the strange device — Excelsior ! His brow was sad, his eye beneath... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1855 - 902 pages
...his resignation. VOL. VI.— OCTOBER, 1855.— No. X. EARNEST YOUNG MEN. BY TBB EDITOR. A youth who, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, A Banner with the strange device — Excelsior. THERE is a great difference in young men. Among various classes there is one distinctly marked, which... | |
 | Joseph Gostwick - American literature - 1856 - 338 pages
...more carefully studied. Good reading supplies all the music required by this fine poem. EXCELSIOR. ' The shades of night were falling fast, As through...rung The accents of that unknown tongue — Excelsior ! In happy homes he saw the light Of household fires gleam warm and bright ; Above, the spectral glaciers... | |
 | Collection - 1856 - 120 pages
...my first years be past ; That I may give for ev'ry day, Some good account at last. WATTS. Excelsior. The shades of night were falling fast, As through...rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior ! In happy homes he saw the light Of household fires gleam warm and bright ; Above, the spectral glaciers... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1856 - 518 pages
...fate ; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait. EXCELSIOR.1 " Onward and upward." THE shades of night were falling fast, As through...rung The accents of that unknown tongue, "Excelsior!" 111 happy homes he saw the light Of household fires gleam warm and bright ; Above the spectral glaciers... | |
 | American poetry - 1856 - 352 pages
...all, that he shall go To his long resting-place without a tear. EXCELSIOR. THE shades of night*wero falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed...His brow was sad ; his eye beneath, Flashed like a faulchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior... | |
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