 | Edward Payson Weston - 1849 - 200 sidor
...up the height, Excelsior ! At break of day, as heavenward The pious monks of Saint Bernard Uttered the oft-repeated prayer, A voice cried through the...far, A voice fell, like a falling star, Excelsior I TO THE AUTHOR'S WIFE, ABSENT ON A VISIT. BY SEBA SMITH. COME home my dear Elizabeth ; I'm sure could... | |
 | Spring flowers, S. P. - 1849 - 178 sidor
...of day, as heavenward The pious monks of Saint Bernard Uttered the oft-repeated prayer, A voice came through the startled air, "Excelsior !" A traveller,...grasping in his hand of ice That banner with the strange devica, "Excelsior !" There in the twilight cold and gray, Lifeless but beautiful he lay, And from... | |
 | Lydia Maria Child - 1849 - 298 sidor
...it without being reminded of Longfellow's inspired lines so exquisitely sung by the Hutchinsons : " And from the sky serene and far, A voice fell, like a falling star, Excelsior." I find it not easy to come away from that steepleharmony to this city of turmoil and traffic. I will... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 462 sidor
...up the height, Excelsior ! At break of day, as heavenward The pious monks of Saint Bernard Uttered the oft-repeated prayer, A voice cried through the...A voice fell, like a falling star, Excelsior ! THE BELFRY OF BRUGES. IN the market-place of Bruges stands the belfry old and brown ; Thrice consumed and... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 500 sidor
...up the height, Excelsior ! At break of day, as heavenward The pious monks of Saint Bernard Uttered the oft-repeated prayer, A voice cried through the...far, A voice fell, like a falling star, Excelsior ! POEMS ON SLAVERY. 1842. [The following poems, with one exception, were written at sea, in the latter... | |
 | 1850 - 604 sidor
...cried through the startled air — ' Excelsior !' " A traveler, by the faithful hound, Half buried in the snow was found — Still grasping in his hand...twilight cold and gray, Lifeless, but beautiful, he lay ; Ai.d from the sky, serene and far, A voice fell like a falling star — ' Excelsior !' " We are sorry... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - 608 sidor
...cried through the startled air — ' Excelsior !' " A traveler, by the faithful hound, Half buried mes a martyrdom; and if it extend to the whole impression,...elemental life, but strikes at the ethereal ami fift ; Ai d from the sky, serene and far, A voice fell like a falling star — ' Excelsior !' " • We are... | |
 | Daniel Wise - 1850 - 274 sidor
...cold breath of the frost, he falls — yea, nobly falls — into the treacherous snow-drift, and " There in the twilight, cold and gray, Lifeless, but...far, A voice fell, like a falling star, Excelsior ! " From the summit of human attainment on earth, he had gone to dwell in the blessed heaven of God.... | |
 | Salem Town - 1850 - 374 sidor
...was found, Still grasping in his hand of ice That banner with the strange device, — Excelsior ! 8. There, in the twilight cold and gray, Lifeless, but...far, A voice fell, like a falling star, — Excelsior ! QUSSTIONS. How ia ambition represented in thia piece ? 1. What was the derica on the banner of the... | |
 | Salem Town - 1850 - 372 sidor
...was the peasant's last good-night; A voice replied, far up the height, — Excelsior ! 7. A traveler, by the faithful hound, Half-buried in the snow was...That banner with the strange device, — Excelsior ! 8. There, in the twilight cold and gray, Lifeless, but beautiful, he lay, And from the sky, serene... | |
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This was the peasant's last Good-night, A voice replied, far up the height, Excelsior ! At break of day, as heavenward The pious monks of Saint Bernard Uttered the oft-repeated prayer, A voice cried through the startled air Excelsior ! A traveller, by... 
