The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. With prefatory noticeGall & Inglis, 1855 - 640 Seiten |
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... Prince of Peace , and would you profane it Thus with violent deeds and hearts overflowing with hatred ? Lo , where the crucified Christ from his cross is gazing upon you ! See , in those sorrowful eyes what meekness and holy compassion ...
... Prince of Peace , and would you profane it Thus with violent deeds and hearts overflowing with hatred ? Lo , where the crucified Christ from his cross is gazing upon you ! See , in those sorrowful eyes what meekness and holy compassion ...
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. I. THE CASTLE OF VAULTSBERG ON THE RHINE . A Chamber in a tower . PRINCE HENRY , sitting alone , ill and restless . Midnight . PRINCE HENRY . I CANNOT sleep ! my fervid brain Calls up the vanished Past again ...
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. I. THE CASTLE OF VAULTSBERG ON THE RHINE . A Chamber in a tower . PRINCE HENRY , sitting alone , ill and restless . Midnight . PRINCE HENRY . I CANNOT sleep ! my fervid brain Calls up the vanished Past again ...
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... Prince Henry ! PRINCE HENRY , starting . Who is it speaks ? Who and what are you ? LUCIFER . One who seeks A moment's audience with the Prince . PRINCE HENRY . When came you in ? LUCIFER . A moment since . I found your study door ...
... Prince Henry ! PRINCE HENRY , starting . Who is it speaks ? Who and what are you ? LUCIFER . One who seeks A moment's audience with the Prince . PRINCE HENRY . When came you in ? LUCIFER . A moment since . I found your study door ...
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. LUCIFER . You heard the thunder ; It was loud enough to waken the dead . And it is not a matter of special wonder That , when God is walking overhead , You should not hear my feeble tread . PRINCE HENRY . What ...
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. LUCIFER . You heard the thunder ; It was loud enough to waken the dead . And it is not a matter of special wonder That , when God is walking overhead , You should not hear my feeble tread . PRINCE HENRY . What ...
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. LUCIFER . The honour is mine , or will be when I have cured your disease . PRINCE HENRY . But not till then . LUCIFER . What is your illness ? PRINCE HENRY . It has no name . A smouldering , dull , perpetual ...
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. LUCIFER . The honour is mine , or will be when I have cured your disease . PRINCE HENRY . But not till then . LUCIFER . What is your illness ? PRINCE HENRY . It has no name . A smouldering , dull , perpetual ...
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angels answered arms beautiful bell birds breath bright called child church close clouds comes dark dead death deep door dream earth ELSIE Enter eyes face fair fall Father fear feel feet fire flowers follow forest FRIAR Gipsy give gold golden grave hand hast head hear heard heart heaven holy hope hour HYPOLITO Italy king land LARA leaves light lips live look LUCIFER maiden morning never night o'er once pass play poor Pray prayer PRECIOSA PRINCE HENRY rest ring rise river round Saint seemed shadows side silent singing sleep song soul sound speak spirit stand star stood strong sweet thee things thou thought unto VICTORIAN village voice wait walls wandered wave wild wind window youth
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Seite 189 - Tis of the wave and not the rock ; 'Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale ! In spite of rock and tempest's roar, In spite of false lights on the shore. Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea ! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with th.ee.
Seite 399 - The shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device, Excelsior ! 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...
Seite 49 - And with them the being beauteous, Who unto my youth was given, More than all things else to love me, And is now a saint in heaven. With a slow and noiseless footstep, Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine.
Seite 48 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Seite 321 - But the father answered never a word, A frozen corpse was he. Lashed to the helm, all stiff and stark, With his face turned to the skies, The lantern gleamed through the gleaming snow On his fixed and glassy eyes. Then the maiden clasped her hands and prayed That saved she might be : And she thought of Christ who stilled the wave, On the Lake of Galilee.
Seite 400 - 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!
Seite 48 - He gazed at the flowers with tearful eyes, He kissed their drooping leaves ; It was for the Lord of Paradise He bound them in his sheaves. "My Lord has need of these flowerets gay," The Reaper said, and smiled; "Dear tokens of the earth are they, Where he was once a child. "They shall all bloom in fields of light, Transplanted by my care, And saints, upon their garments white, These sacred blossoms wear.
Seite 5 - Homeward serenely she walked with God's benediction upon her. When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
Seite 320 - Then leaped her cable's length. 'Come hither! come hither! my little daughter, And do not tremble so; For I can weather the roughest gale, That ever wind did blow.
Seite 201 - ALL are architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time : Some with massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme. Nothing useless is, or low ; Each thing in its place is best ; And what seems but idle show Strengthens and supports the rest.