 ... Uttered the oft-repeated prayer, A voice cried through the startled air Excelsior ! A traveller, by the faithful hound, Half-buried in the snow was found, Still grasping in his hand of ice That banner with the strange device Excelsior ! There in the...  The Native Poets of Maine - Страница 26по S. Herbert Lancey - 1854 - 312 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1858 - 292 страници
...with the strange device, Excelsior f There, in the twilight cold and grey, Lifeless, hut beautiful, he lay ; And from the sky serene and far A voice fell like a falling star, Excelsior ! THE IRISH EMIGRANT. LADY DUFPBBIH.] [Mnsic by G. Ht inn: t . I'm sitting on the stile, Mary, Where... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1858 - 328 страници
...eyes behold. It speaks of heaven : " There in the twilight cold and gray, Lifeless, but beautiful, he lay ; And from the sky, serene and far, A voice fell, like a falling star, Excelsior*!" Accordingly, three days after, a young man, when he saw what face death gave him, was so moved, that... | |
 | 1858 - 740 страници
...winter, those concluding lines: — " There, in the twilight cold and gray, Lifeless bnt beautiful he lay ; And from the sky. serene and far, A voice fell like a falling star— Excelaiorl" Yes ! when one reads on the records of the churchyards in Jamaica the early ages at which... | |
 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 страници
...with the strange device, Excelsior ! There in the twilight cold and grey, Lifeless, but beautiful, he lay ; And from the sky, serene and far, A voice fell, like a falling star, BEN ADHEM. " Wo know we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren.' 1 John iii.... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1858 - 566 страници
...snow was found Still grasping, in his hand of ice, That banner with the strange device, Excelsior ! And from the sky, serene and far, A voice fell, like a falling star, Excelsior ! 87. TO THE RAINBOW. — Thomas Campbtll. TRIUMPHAL arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1858 - 690 страници
...the HEART'S device '— HDMANITAS. ' TDEEF: in the twilight soft and gray, Lifeless, but beautiful, he lay, And from the sky, serene and far, A voice fell, nke a falling star ' — HDMANITAS.' An interesting original paper, from the pen of CoL WALL, upon... | |
 | Harvey Marriott - 1859 - 284 страници
...with the strange device, Excelsior ! There, in the twilight cold and gray, Lifeless, but beautiful, he lay ; And from the sky serene and far, A voice fell like a falling star, Excelsior ! LONGFELLOW. THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS. IT was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea ;... | |
 | 1859 - 802 страници
...banner with the strange device, Excelsior. There in the twilight cold and gray, Lifeless, but beautiful, he lay ; And from the sky, serene and far, A voice fell, like a falling star ! Excelsior. Let this, young men, be your motto, EXCELSIOR — higher ! Always look upwards, that is the destiny... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 812 страници
...with the strange device, Excelsior ! There, in the twilight cold and gray, Lifeless, but beautiful, he lay, And from the sky, serene and far, A voice fell, like a falling star, Excelsior ! LITERARY FAME. Time has a Doomsday-Book, upon whose pages he is continually recording illustrious... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1859 - 724 страници
...banner with the strange device Excelsior ! There in the twilight cold and gray, Lifeless, but beautiful, he lay, And from the sky, serene and far, A voice fell, like a falling star. Excelsior i oems an The following poems, with one exception, were written at sen, in the Utter part of October.... | |
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