 ... Uttered the oft-repeated prayer, A voice cried through the startled air Excelsior ! A traveller, by the faithful hound, Half-buried in the snow was found, Still grasping in his hand of ice That banner with the strange device Excelsior ! There in the...  The Gift Book of Gems - Sida 261856 - 312 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1854 - 178 sidor
...his dark eyes bright with tears, and saw the placid moon in the everlasting heavens. And then • — from the sky, serene and far, A voice fell, like a falling star ; Excelsior ! A MORNING'S TALK. THE friends of the everlasting silences may talk on with wordy wrath against indulgence... | |
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...Excelsior" is pre-eminently one of these. There in the twilight cold and gray, Lifeless, bnt beantiful he lay ; And from the sky serene and far, A voice fell like a fallen star, — Excelsior. SECOND ARTICLE. : Part the First. By the Anthor of " The Roman." London... | |
 | 1854 - 576 sidor
...snow was found, Still grasping, in his hand of ice, That banner with the strange device, Excelsior ! And from the sky, serene and far, A voice fell, like a fulling star, Excelsiori! 87. TO THE RAINROW. — Thomat Campbell, TRIUMPHAL arch, that fill'st the... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 568 sidor
...with the strange device, Excelsior ! There, in the twilight cold and gray, Lifeless, but beautiful, he lay, And from the sky, serene and far, A voice fell, like a falling star, Excelsior ! THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH. UNDER a spreading chestnut-tree The village smithy stands ; The smith, a... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 264 sidor
...banner with the strange device, Excelsior! There in the twilight cold and gray, Lifeless, but beautiful, he lay, And from the sky, serene and far, A voice fell, like a falling star, Excelsior! CARILLON. IN the ancient town of Bruges, In the quaint old Flemish city, As the evening shades descended,... | |
 | N. Brittan, L. H. Sherwood - 1855 - 400 sidor
...with the strange device — Excelsior! There, in the twilight cold and gray, Lifeless, but beautiful he lay ; And from the sky, serene and far, A voice fell, like a falling star — Excelsior ! No. 75. ASPIRATIONS OF YOUTR School Singer, 67. 1. Higher, higher, will we climb Up the mount of... | |
 | Joseph Gostwick - 1856 - 338 sidor
...with the strange device — Excelsior ! There, in the twilight cold and gray, Lifeless, but beautiful, he lay, And from the sky, serene and far, A voice fell, like a falling star : "Excelsior!" In his translation of The Children of the Lord's Supper, from the Swedish of Tegner, Longfellow endeavoured... | |
 | Songs - 1856 - 712 sidor
...with the strange device, Excelsior ! There, in the twilight cold and gray, Lifeless, but beautiful, he lay ; And from the sky, serene and far, A voice fell, like a falling star ! Excelsior ! HENBX LONGFELLOW. fjer JFoes TOept. OD of the thunder ! from whose cloudy seat The fiery winds of... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 sidor
...with the strange device, Excelsior ! There in the twilight cold and gray, Lifeless, but beautiful, he lay, And from the sky, serene and far, A voice fell, like a falling star, Excelsior ! 1. Excelsior is a Latin word, meaning " higher," and the moral of this poem is the same as Montgomery's... | |
 | Collection - 1856 - 120 sidor
...That banner with the strange device, There in the twilight cold and gray, Lifeless, hut beautiful, he lay ; And from the sky, serene and far, A voice fell, like a falling star, Excelsior ! LONGFELLOW. Tlie Poplar Field. The poplars are fell'd, farewell to the shade, And the whispering... | |
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