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
| Charles Mackay - 1896 - 680 pagina’s
...floating on the floor, Shall be lifted — never more I (HENRY WADSWOKTII LONGFELLOW.) HYMN TO THE NIGHT. I HEARD the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through her marble halls ! her sable light I saw her sable skirts all fringed with From the celestial walls t I felt her presence... | |
| Nicholas Dickson, William Sanderson - 1909 - 274 pagina’s
...itself at last in the nirvana of the vast illimitable ocean of Time. GLOAMING AMONG THE BORDER HILLS. 'I heard the trailing garments of the night Sweep through her marble hnlls ! I saw her sable skirts all fringed with light. From the celestial walls." I HERE are few things... | |
| Charles Mackay - 1897 - 666 pagina’s
...floating on the floor, Shall be hfted — never more ! [HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW.] HYMN TO THE NIGHT. I HEARD the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through...! I felt her presence by its spell of might, Stoop o er me from above ; The calm, majestic presence of the Night, As of the one I love. I heard the sounds... | |
| 1907 - 616 pagina’s
...quality infused, doubtless, during the young poet's three years' residence abroad. Note these strains: I heard the trailing garments of the night Sweep through...skirts all fringed with light From the celestial walls! And, again, in "Footsteps of Angels," this touching reference to the young wife who so untimely left... | |
| Charles Noble - 1898 - 460 pagina’s
...earliest poems, and notice some of the qualities which gave him his peculiar popularity. HYMN TO THE NIGHT I heard the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through...skirts all fringed with light From the celestial walls ! 5 I felt her presence, by its spell of might, Stoop o'er me from above ; The calm, majestic presence... | |
| Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - 1906 - 406 pagina’s
...world. Now and then he touched the heights, as in the vision of the majestic Hymn to the Night : — " I heard the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through her marble halla ! I saw her sable skirts all fringed with light From the celestial walls ! " — or in the figure... | |
| Paul Elmer More - 1908 - 288 pagina’s
...with the first words of the poem that follows the prelude of his first volume of collected verse : I heard the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through her marble halls. How miraculously that too familiar image expresses the gradual hushing of the earth as twilight descends... | |
| Helen Archibald Clarke - 1909 - 344 pagina’s
...nights was upon him when he wrote sitting at his window "on one of the balmiest nights of the year" — "I heard the trailing garments of the night Sweep...all fringed with light From the celestial walls!" The far away light of stars vibrates in "There is no light in earth or heaven, But the cold light of... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1910 - 294 pagina’s
...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...walls ! I felt her presence, by its spell of might, 5 Stoop o'er me from above ; The calm, majestic presence of the Night, As of the one I love. I heard... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1910 - 686 pagina’s
...That can soothe thee, or affright, — Be these henceforth thy theme." HYMN TO THE NIGHT *A(rro<rķi(, 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... | |
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