 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 - Pagina 7door Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1840 - 144 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | James Challis Parsons - 1891 - 188 pagina’s
...ear of the imagination. Take the following example from Longfellow's " Voices of the Night: " I beard the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through her...skirts all fringed with light From the celestial walls. The poet here personifies the cool and soothing Night as a serene and consoling goddess. Her presence... | |
 | Grace Townsend - 1891 - 570 pagina’s
...girls, and blest That home where God is felt! — Felicia Dorothea Hunans, Hymn To The Night. IM EARD the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through her...halls! I saw her sable skirts all fringed with light FVom the celestial walls! I felt her presence, by its spell of might, i>toop o'er me from above; The... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1891 - 800 pagina’s
...the Night, That can soothe thee, or affright, — Be these henceforth thy theme." HYMN TO THE NIGHT. I HEARD the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through her marble halls \ \ saw her sable skirts all fringed with light From the celestial walls ! I felt her presence, by... | |
 | Robert Frederick Brewer - 1893 - 402 pagina’s
...'Tis better to have loved and lost, Than never to have lovd at all. Tennyson. " In Memoriam." 1 hear the trailing garments of the night Sweep through her...skirts all fringed with light From the celestial walls ! Then shook the hills with thunder riven ; Then rushed the steed, to battle driven ; And louder than... | |
 | John W. Iliff - 1893 - 616 pagina’s
...into such a fury that the blood of all England cannot extinguish it. MRS. LM CHlLD. HYMN TO THE NIGHT. I heard the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through her marble halls l I saw her sable skirts all fringed with light From the celestial walls! I felt her presence, by its... | |
 | William Potts - 1895 - 330 pagina’s
...perhaps no one greatly cared : — I heard the trailing •smmmts of the Night Sweep through her mnrble halls ! I saw her sable skirts all fringed with light...presence, by Its spell of might, Stoop o'er me from above ; Tlio calm, majestic proseuce of the Night, As of the one I love. Hut before and below me, here and... | |
 | Catharine Aiken - 1895 - 152 pagina’s
...in seven minutes by first repeating the subjects and predicates as italicized : HYMN TO THE NIGHT 1 heard the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through her marble halls ! / saw her sable skirts all fringed with light Prom the celestial walls ! I felt her presence, by... | |
 | 1896 - 532 pagina’s
...know erelong, Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong. HYMN TO THE NIGHT 'A.(rircurlri, I HEARD the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through...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 of... | |
 | Mrs. J. W. Shoemaker - 1896 - 430 pagina’s
...murmuring, thunder, rasp, grate, howl, wriggle, boom. Note the tone-coloring of the following : 1. I heard the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through...skirts all fringed with light From the celestial walls. From "Hymn to the Night " — Longfellow. 2. The moan of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 pagina’s
...tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away. r. LONGFELLOW — The Dav in Done. 416 NIGHT. NIGHT. eys, Sweeter than instrument of man e'er caught ! d. LONGFELLOW — Tales a. LONGFELLOW — Hymn to the Night. O holy Night ! from thee I learn to bear What man has borne before!... | |
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