 Our lives are rivers, gliding free To that unfathomed, boundless sea, The silent grave ! Thither all earthly pomp and boast Roll, to be swallowed up and lost In one dark wave. Thither the mighty torrents stray, Thither the brook pursues its way, And tinkling...  The Literary Bouquet: Gathered from Favorite Authors - Pagina 114door Literary bouquet - 1872 - 160 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | John Conroy Hutcheson - 1873 - 302 pagina’s
...Longfellow's, from the Coplas de Manrigue. " ' Our lives are rivers, gliding free, To that unfathom'd boundless sea, The silent grave ! Thither all earthly...Roll, to be swallowed up and lost In one dark wave.' " "I prefer," said I, "Tennyson's Brook. Our laureate's description of a moving river is not so sombre... | |
 | Thomas Serel - 1875 - 184 pagina’s
...oppressor and the oppressed ; the educated and the illiterate; the saint and the reprobate." Here " Side by side, The poor man and the son of pride, Lie calm and still!" Church-yards are of very ancient origin, and some writers trace the custom of using them as places... | |
 | Edward Payson Tenney - 1876 - 166 pagina’s
...lives are rivers, gliding free To that unfathomed, boundless sea, The silent grave: Thither all empty pomp and boast Roll, to be swallowed up and lost In...poor man and the son of pride Lie calm and still." 1 Kheyam ; eleventh ceutury. The death-sentence has passed on all men; and there is no partiality,... | |
 | Edward Payson Tenney - 1876 - 168 pagina’s
...in making the heads of kings and the feet of beggars.1 We may all sing the old Spanish song : — " Our lives are rivers, gliding free To that unfathomed, boundless sea, The silent grave: Thither all empty pomp and boast Roll, to be swallowed up and lost In one dark wave. Thither the mighty torrents... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1877 - 634 pagina’s
...not decay ; Our lives are rivers, gliding free To that nnfathomed, boundless sea, The silent grave I Thither all earthly pomp and boast Roll, to be swallowed...poor man and the son of pride Lie calm and still. I will not here invoke the throng Of orators and sons of song, The deathless few; Fiction entices and... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1877 - 400 pagina’s
...pass away. Our lives are rivers, gliding free To that unfat homed, boundless sea, The silent grave I Thither all earthly pomp and boast Roll, to be swallowed...all are equal ; side by side The poor man and the sou of pride Lie calm and still. I will not here invoke the throng • Of orators and sons of song,... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pagina’s
...of peace about the change. 2290. LIFE. Way of OUR lives are rivers, gliding free To that unfathom'd, ng may shield thee, and His feathers keep, Sustain thee living, or receive thee swallow'd up and lost In one dark wave. Thither the mighty torrents stray, Thither the brook pursues... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1878 - 240 pagina’s
...not decay ; Fleeting as were the dreams of old, Remembered like a tale that's told, They pass away. Our lives are rivers, gliding free To that unfathomed,...poor man and the son of pride Lie calm and still. I will not here invoke the throng Of orators and sons of song, The deathless few : Fiction entices... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1878 - 442 pagina’s
...not decay ; Fleeting as were the dreams of old, Remembered like a tale that 's told, They pass away. Our lives are rivers, gliding free To that unfathomed,...are equal ; side by side The poor man and the son of prid» Lie calm and still. I will not here invoke the throng Of orators and sons of song, The deathless... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1878 - 450 pagina’s
...not decay ; Fleeting as were the dreams of old, Remembered like a tale that 's told, They pass away. Our lives are rivers, gliding free To that unfathomed,...Thither all earthly pomp and boast Roll, to be swallowed u]i and lost In one dark wave. Thither the mighty torrents stray, Thither the brook pursues its way,... | |
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