 His brow was sad; his eye beneath, Flashed like a falchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior ! In happy homes he saw the light Of household fires gleam warm and bright; Above, the spectral glaciers...  Ballads and Other Poems - Página 129por Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1842 - 132 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Richard Green Parker - 1865 - 300 páginas
...126. EXCELSIOE. 1. rpIIE shades of night were falling fast,1 J- As through an Alpine village passed2 A youth, who bore, mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device, EXCELSIOR !3 2. His brow was sad ; his eye beneath Flashed like a falchion4 from its sheath ; And like a silver... | |
 | Book - 1865 - 308 páginas
...when shall Spring visit the mouldering urn ? Oh ! when shall it dawn on the night of the grave '(" THE shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village pass'd A youtUk who bore, 'mid snow and iee, A baj^ef with the strange deviee, Exeelsior ! His brow... | |
 | John Hugh Hawley - 1865 - 166 páginas
...meet ; The snow shall be their winding-sheet ; And every turf beneath their feet 28.— EXCELSIOR. I. The shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village pass'd A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device, — Excelsior ! His... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1866 - 568 páginas
...the prize of painting, Lorenzo was entitled to that of virtue. MRS. ANNA LETITIA "BARBACLD. XXX.— "EXCELSIOR. THE shades of night were falling fast,...ice, A banner, with the strange "device Excelsior I His brow was sad ; his eye beneath, Flashed like a "falchion from its sheath ; And like a silver... | |
 | Pen and pencil pictures - 1866 - 176 páginas
...saving power remains; Thy realm for ever lasts, thy own MKSSIAH reigns. x с elsio r. -ONGFELLOW. HE shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine...'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device, |s> Excelsior ! His brow was sad ; his eye beneath, Flashed like a falchion from its sheath, And like... | |
 | John Dudley Philbrick - 1866 - 174 páginas
...EXCELSIOR. rilHE shades of night were falling fast, -L As through an Alpine village passed A 37outh, who bore, mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange...device, "Excelsior!" His brow was sad ; his eye beneath, Plashed like a falchion from its sheath ; And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown... | |
 | Anne Bowman - 1866 - 208 páginas
...pleased lake, like maiden coy, The mountain shadows on her breast Were neither broken nor at rest.'' 8 "A youth who bore 'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device." 9 " The birdie wild, with many a note Sings drowsy day to rest." 13. " Hail, holy light! Thou revisit'st... | |
 | Robert Armstrong (master of Madras coll) - 1866 - 142 páginas
...In the midnight and the snow ! Christ, save us from a death like this, On the reef of Norman's Woe. EXCELSIOR THE shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village pass'd A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device— "Excelsior!" His brow... | |
 | 1882 - 972 páginas
...critics choose to call " poetry." We have all heard years ago, the " clever " suggestion that the " youth who bore 'mid snow and ice a banner with the strange device," was a crazy lad, whose maniacal attempt to reach the mountain summit without a guide, and at night-time,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 540 páginas
...which came not before Cromwell slept in his grave. HNGARD. EXCELSIOE. 285 CXXXIH. — EXCELSIOR. 1. THE shades of night were falling fast, As through...and ice, A banner with the strange device, Excelsior ! 2. His brow was sad ; his eye beneath Flashed like a falchion from its sheath, And like a silver... | |
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