 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
 | 1919 - 966 pages
...achieving, still pursuing, 35 Learn to labor and to wait. Knickerbocker Magasine, Oct., (1838) 1838. the hollow eye grows bright, And the poor heart almost...seeing home and friends once more. George F. Root s Stoop o'er me from above ; The calm, majestic presence of the Night, As of the one I love. I heard... | |
 | 1919 - 688 pages
...moonbeam, in the freshness of dawn, and in the cheer of the evening lamp. Then_the clock struck eight! Night I heard the trailing garments of the Night Sweep...skirts all fringed with light From the celestial walls. — Longfe'lovi, in "Hymn to the Nigkl" The Forest Among the beautiful pictures That hang on Memory's... | |
 | Harry Lyman Koopman - 1919 - 648 pages
...HYMN TO THE NIGHT. I HEAED the trailing garments of ihs Night * ' Sweep through her marble halls I I saw her sable skirts 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... | |
 | Caleb Williams Saleeby - 1919 - 402 pages
...these researches to-day. We may congratulate Longfellow and ourselves on the inspired moment when he Heard the trailing garments of the night, Sweep through her marble halls ; but garments that trail otherwhere are an abomination. Curiously clerical was the criterion that... | |
 | Longfellow - 1922 - 722 pages
...the balmiest nights of the year. I endeavored to reproduce the Impression of the hour and scene.” I HEARD the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through...fringed with light From the celestial walls! I felt her presences by its spell of might, Stoop o er me from above; The calm, majestic presence of the Night,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1922 - 910 pages
...solemn Voices of the Night, That can soothe thee, or affright, —. Be these henceforth thy theme.' HYMN TO THE NIGHT I HEARD the trailing garments of...her marble halls! I saw her sable skirts all fringed I felt her presence, by its spell of might, Stoop o'er me from above; The calm, majestic presence of... | |
 | Charles Henry Woolbert, Andrew Thomas Weaver - 1922 - 426 pages
...WORDSWORTH. The following passages, to be given the right meaning, must have a low level of Pitch: (a) I heard the trailing garments of the night Sweep through...halls! , I saw her sable skirts all fringed with light I felt her presence, by its spell of night, Stoop o'er me from above; if The calm, majestic presence... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1922 - 728 pages
...the balmiest nights of the year. I endeavored to reproduce the impression of tin' hour and scene." I HEARD the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through her marble halls 1 I saw her sable skirts all fringed with light From the celestial walls 1 I felt her presence, by... | |
 | Allan Nevins - 1922 - 620 pages
...Night" (1839; signed J. QD) was short but flattering. It quoted the purest poetry of the little book: I heard the trailing garments of the night Sweep through her marble halls! and its criticism emphasized the two youthful qualities which should have been most emphasized, simplicity... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...glisten, glisten, Seeming with bright eyes to listenFor what listen they? KEATS— Л Prophecy. L. 1. ii 1 his my solitude I cast thee on the Waters. — go thy ways: And LONGFELLOW — Hymn to the Night. (See also WHITMAN) 12 О holy Night! from thee I learn to bear What... | |
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