 | Merriam-Webster, Inc - 1984 - 950 страници
...implies a ray which shines through an intervening medium or against a background of relative darkness <I see the lights of the village gleam through the rain and mist — Longfellow) <a light gleamed through the chinks in the wall— Dickens) <his dislike of me... | |
 | Bill Moore - 1987 - 180 страници
...lead into gold. The opening of Longfellow's poem "The Day Is Done" is well known, and deservedly: The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings...feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Well-known, quotable Longfellow. The end of this poem is one most people... | |
 | Ralph Moody - 1993 - 276 страници
...deeper as Lady plodded along, and Muriel had me say over, at least three times, the poem that goes: "The day is done, and the darkness falls from the wings of Night ..." I didn't ask any of them not to tell Mother how close a call we'd had. I just knew they never... | |
 | Various - 1996 - 496 страници
...the vast Temple of our liberties A shapeless mass of wreck and rubbish lies. 1842 THE DAY IS DONE The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings...feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight. 5 I see the lights of the village Gleam through the rain and the mist, And a feeling of sadness comes... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Leonard Cassuto - 1999 - 228 страници
...shall 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...the mist. And a feeling of sadness comes o'er me. Thai my soul cannot resist; A feeling of sadness and longing. That is not akin to pain, And resembles... | |
 | Walter A. de Milly, Walter de Milly - 1999 - 144 страници
...to the county courtroom for the awards ceremony. My minister gave a speech, quoting Longfellow: The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings...is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight. I am told that my minister challenged me to become an inspiration, to soar through storms, to achieve... | |
 | Frank Mehring - 2001 - 194 страници
...seaIn her tomb by the sounding sea. "The Day is Done" (1844) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) The day is done, and the darkness, Falls from the wings of Night, As the feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight. I see the lights of the village Gleam through... | |
 | Darrel Abel - 2002 - 538 страници
...that tell of saddest thought." Poe relished it for this mood, and for the delicacy of its imagery: The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings...Night, As a feather is wafted downward From an eagle in its flight. In its concluding stanzas Longfellow described the kind of poetry which he and his readers... | |
 | Moneca Wilson - 2003 - 134 страници
...those old misleading cliches: "dusk falls," "night falls?" Even Longfellow had the audacity to say: "Darkness falls from the wings of night, as a feather is wafted downward." It is difficult to change false beliefs, Lord knows, and this misinformation - that darkness descends... | |
 | Irene Gammel - 2005 - 321 страници
...told him that dreadful story about the same process. It was simply awful. 'I saw Murray's pale light Gleam through the rain and the mist, And a feeling...sadness comes o'er me That my soul cannot resist.' We had a nice drive, though, and laughed a great deal as usual. NL June 7, 1903 Here I am at home again... | |
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I see the lights of the village Gleam through the rain and the mist, And a feeling of sadness comes o'er me, That my soul cannot resist... 
