 Gods may dwell, Beautiful, entire, and clean. Else our lives are incomplete, Standing in these walls of Time, Broken stairways, where the feet Stumble as they seek to climb. Build to-day, then, strong and sure, With a firm and ample base ; And ascending...  Pioneer Collections - Page 1401900Full view - About this book
 | Literature - 1850 - 144 pages
...strong and sure, With a firm and ample base ; And ascending and secure Shall to-morrow find its place. Thus alone can we attain To those turrets, where the...as one vast plain, And one boundless reach of sky. LONGFELLOW. YOUNO thoughts have music in them : — love And happiness their theme. I HAVE seen change... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1850 - 476 pages
...strong and sure, With a firm and ample base ; And ascending and secure Shall to-morrow find its place. Thus alone can we attain To those turrets, where the...as one vast plain, And one boundless reach of sky. SAND OF THE DESERT IN AN HOURGLASS. A HANDFUL of red sand, from the hot clime Of Arab deserts brought,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...to climb. Build to-day, then, strong and sure, With a firm and ample base ; And ascending and secure Thus alone can we attain To those turrets, where the...as one vast plain, And one boundless reach of sky. SAND OF THE DESERT IN AN HOURGLASS. A HANDFUL of red sand, from the hot clime Of Arab deserts brought,... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...strong and sure, With a firm and ample base ; And ascending and secure Shall to-morrow find its place. Thus alone can we attain To those turrets, where the...as one vast plain, And one boundless reach of sky. LONGFELLOW. XXXIII. THE LABOURER. " IT is an encouraging circumstance that the respect for labour is... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1852 - 256 pages
...strong and sure, With a firm and ample base ; And ascending and secure Shall to-morrow find its place. Thus alone can we attain To those turrets, where the...as one vast plain, And one boundless reach of sky. OF THE DESERT IN AN HOUR-GLASS. A HANDFUL of red sand, from the hot clime Of Arab deserts brought,... | |
 | Elisha Reynolds Potter - Education - 1852 - 406 pages
...strong and sure, With a firm and ample base ; And ascending and secure Shall to-morrow find its place. Thus alone can we attain, To those turrets where the...as one vast plain And one boundless reach of sky. LESSOiNS ON OBJECTS. The following letter from Professor Jaeger, whose lectures on Natural History... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - Readers - 1852 - 250 pages
...and sure, With a firm and ample base, And ascending and secure, Shall to-morrow find its place. 6. Thus alone can we attain To those turrets, where the...as one vast plain, And one boundless reach of sky. UNCLE TIM'S METAPHYSICS 1. " That that is, is." Most people in happy ignorance indulge in this belief.... | |
 | Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...strong and sure, With a firm and ample base, And ascending and secure Shall to-morrow find its place. Thus alone can we attain To those turrets, where the...as one vast plain, And one boundless reach of sky. LONGFELLOW. iarte in The finished garden to the view Its vistas opens, and its valleys green Snatched... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853 - 470 pages
...strong and sure, With a firm and ample base ; And ascending and secure Shall to-morrow find its place. Thus alone can we attain To those turrets, where the...as one vast plain, And one boundless reach of sky. SAND OF THE DESERT IN AN HOURGLASS. A HANDFUL of red sand, from the hot clime Of Arab deserts brought,... | |
 | David Bates Tower - Readers - 1853 - 272 pages
...firm and ample base, And ascending and secure, Shall to-morrow find its place. 6. Thus alone can \ve attain To those turrets, where the eye Sees the world...as one vast plain, And one boundless reach of sky. UNCLE TIM'S METAPHYSICS. 1. " That that is, is." Most people in happy ignorance indulge in this belief.... | |
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