 Stoop o er me from above ; The calm, majestic presence of the Night, As of the one I love. I heard the sounds of sorrow and delight, The manifold, soft chimes, That fill the haunted chambers of the Night, Like some old poet's rhymes.  Voices of the Night - Page 3de Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1843 - 183 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Robert Frederick Brewer - 1893 - 402 pages
...'Tis better to have loved and lost, Than never to have lovd at all. Tennyson. " In Memoriam." 1 hear the trailing garments of the night Sweep through her...skirts all fringed with light From the celestial walls ! Then shook the hills with thunder riven ; Then rushed the steed, to battle driven ; And louder than... | |
 | John W. Iliff - 1893 - 616 pages
...king may kindle into such a fury that the blood of all England cannot extinguish it. MRS. LM CHlLD. HYMN TO THE NIGHT. I heard the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through her marble halls l I saw her sable skirts all fringed with light From the celestial walls! I felt her presence, by its... | |
 | William Potts - 1895 - 330 pages
...perhaps no one greatly cared : — I heard the trailing •smmmts of the Night Sweep through her mnrble halls ! I saw her sable skirts all fringed with light...presence, by Its spell of might, Stoop o'er me from above ; Tlio calm, majestic proseuce of the Night, As of the one I love. Hut before and below me, here and... | |
 | Catharine Aiken - 1895 - 152 pages
...in seven minutes by first repeating the subjects and predicates as italicized : HYMN TO THE NIGHT 1 heard the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through her marble halls ! / saw her sable skirts all fringed with light Prom the celestial walls ! I felt her presence, by... | |
 | 1896 - 532 pages
...know erelong, Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong. HYMN TO THE NIGHT 'A.(rircurlri, I HEARD the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through...all fringed with light From the celestial walls I I felt her presence, by its spell of might, Stoop o'er me from above; The calm, majestic presence of... | |
 | Mrs. J. W. Shoemaker - 1896 - 430 pages
...murmuring, thunder, rasp, grate, howl, wriggle, boom. Note the tone-coloring of the following : 1. I heard the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through...skirts all fringed with light From the celestial walls. From "Hymn to the Night " — Longfellow. 2. The moan of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1896 - 680 pages
...shadow that lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted — never more I (HENRY WADSWOKTII LONGFELLOW.) HYMN TO THE NIGHT. I HEARD the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through her marble halls ! her sable light I saw her sable skirts all fringed with From the celestial walls t I felt her presence... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 pages
...their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away. r. LONGFELLOW — The Dav in Done. 416 NIGHT. many keys, Sweeter than instrument of man e'er caught ! d. LONGFELLOW — Tales a. LONGFELLOW — Hymn to the Night. O holy Night ! from thee I learn to bear What man has borne before!... | |
 | Nicholas Dickson, William Sanderson - 1909 - 274 pages
...itself at last in the nirvana of the vast illimitable ocean of Time. GLOAMING AMONG THE BORDER HILLS. 'I heard the trailing garments of the night Sweep through her marble hnlls ! I saw her sable skirts all fringed with light. From the celestial walls." I HERE are few things... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1897 - 666 pages
...shadow that lies floating on the floor, Shall be hfted — never more ! [HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW.] HYMN TO THE NIGHT. I HEARD the trailing garments of...! I felt her presence by its spell of might, Stoop o er me from above ; The calm, majestic presence of the Night, As of the one I love. I heard the sounds... | |
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