 | Choice poems - 1879 - 206 страници
...higher destinies. Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, Nor deem the irrevocable past, As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If,...its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain. Henry Wads-worth Longfellow. An American poet, born in 1807. From 1829 to 1835 he was Professor of... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1880 - 328 страници
...presage, .... uieir torches lighted, Oleaming through the realms benigh As they onward bear the message THE PHANTOM SHIP. IN Mather's Magnalia Christi, Of...and frosty airs, That filled her sails at parting, Were heavy with good men's pray '' O Lord ! if it be thy pleasure "— Thus prayed the old divine—... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - 1880 - 234 страници
...bent and downcast eyes, We may discern — unseen before — A path to higher destinies. Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If,...wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain. THE BUILDING OF THE SHIP. blanched, whitened, paled. dight (dlt), clothed. fleck, spot, patch, in the air.... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - 1880 - 240 страници
...bent and downcast eyes, We may discern — unseen before — A path to higher destinies. Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If,...wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain. THE BUILDING OF THE SHIP. blanched, whitened, paled. dight (dtt), clothed. fleck, spot, patch, in the air.... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - 1880 - 242 страници
...bent and downcast eyes, We may discern — unseen before — A path to higher destinies. Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If,...wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain. THE BUILDING OF THE SHIP. blanched, whitened, paled. dight (dit), clothed. fleck, spot, patch, in the air.... | |
 | Hugh Reginald Haweis - 1880 - 362 страници
...shoulders bent and downcast eyes. We may discern, unseen before, A path to higher destinies. Nor deem the irrevocable past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If,...its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain. m-3 So there is practical, wise, and solid counsel for us here, although perhaps in the " Psalm of... | |
 | James Platt - 1880 - 220 страници
...sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. Nor deem the irrevocable past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If,...its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain!" Ladder of St. Aucjustlne. There is no hope for the man who is content to stoop to lift the coward's... | |
 | Hugh Reginald Haweis - 1880 - 356 страници
...shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern, unseen before, A path to higher destinies. Nor deem the irrevocable past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If,...its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain. So there is practical, wise, and solid counsel for us here, although perhaps in the " Psalm of Life"... | |
 | Catherine Jane Hamilton - 1880 - 296 страници
...Father in heaven has brought good out of evil, and how the irrevocable past is not wholly wasted or wholly vain, " If, rising on its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain." THE END. bli.LING AND SONS, PRINTERS AND ELECTROTYPERS, GU1LDFORD; AIMARD'S NOVELS. GUSTAVE AIMARD'S TALES... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1881 - 754 страници
...bent and downcast eyes, We may discern—unseen before— A path to higher destinies. Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If,...wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain. THE ROPEWALK. IN that building, long and low, With its windows all a-row, Like the port-holes of a hulk,... | |
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^irrevocable Past, As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain. THE PHANTOM SHIP. IN Mather's Magnalia Christi, Of the old colonial time, May be found in prose the legend That is here set down in rhyme.... 
