| Barry Pain - 1891 - 248 страници
...poetry in a biscuit, and precious little sustenance. The gentle fall of a feather is full of poetry :— The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings...feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight. Edgar Allan Poe quoted those lines in his lecture on The Poetic Principle, and remarked on their insouciance.... | |
| National Speech Arts Association - 1893 - 752 страници
...but through the ear. Who does not know Longfellow's tribute to this helpfulness of the human voice ? The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings...rain and the mist, And a feeling of sadness comes o'erjme That my soul cannot resist: Come, read to me some poem, Some simple and heart-felt lay, That... | |
| 1893 - 472 страници
...all dear delights; I am the fairest daughter of the year. — The Poet's Calendar. NIGHT. The clay is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of...feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight. — The Day is Done. SADNESS. A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles... | |
| William Henry Maxwell - 1894 - 188 страници
...careful attention to the proper slant of the letters. 11. The day is done, and the darkness Thalia from the wings of night, As a feather is wafted downward...And a feeling of sadness comes o'er me That my soul can not resist: A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1896 - 384 страници
...Townshend — a work to be valued properly only in a day to come. LONGFELLOW'S " PROEM " TO " THE WAIF " " The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings...feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight." The single feather here is imperfectly illustrative of the omniprevalent darkness ; but a more especial... | |
| Frank Townsend Southwick - 1894 - 266 страници
...which shows that the thought is not yet completely stated : "I will walk with you, but not now. ' ' The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings...feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight. — Longfellow. To THE TEACHER :— Drill the pupils separately and in unison, in various keys and... | |
| Alex Everett Frye - 1894 - 168 страници
...behind the low hills. The evening breeze came floating into the valley, and seemed to whisper— " The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings...night, As a feather is wafted downward From an eagle in its flight." — LONGFELLOW. CHAPTER VI. HOW SOIL IS MADE AND CARRIED. " See the brooklets flowing,... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe, Edmund Clarence Stedman, George Edward Woodberry - 1895 - 380 страници
...present for your consideration than by the citation of the " Proem " to Mr. Longfellow's " Waif " : " The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings...cannot resist : . " A feeling of sadness and longing, " r That is not akin to pain, ^*" And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain. " Come,... | |
| 1980 - 236 страници
...comes.-George Mueller '-« '- b nevertheless The Day Is Done The day K done, and the darkness Foils from the wings of Night As a feather is wafted downward...From an eagle in his flight. I see the lights of the villages Gleam through the rain an* the mist, And a feeling of sadness tomes o er me That my soul cannot... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe, Gary Richard Thompson - 1984 - 1572 страници
...nevertheless, embodies a fault of illustration which Mr. Longfellow often commits; — let us quote the verses: i The single feather is imperfectly illustrative of the omniprevalcnt darkness — but our more especial... | |
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