Ah ! if our souls but poise and swing Like the compass in its brazen ring, Ever level and ever true To the toil and the task we have to do, We shall sail securely, and safely reach The Fortunate Isles, on whose shining beach The sights we see and the... The Indiana School Journal - Page 1841893Full view - About this book
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1850 - 476 pages
...and uneasy motion, BY THE SEASIDE. Now touching the very skies, Now sinking into the depths of ocean. Ah ! if our souls but poise and swing Like the compass...sounds we hear, Will be those of joy and not of fear ! " Then the Master, With a gesture of command, Waved his hand ; And at the word, Knocking away the... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...With endless and uneasy motion, Now touching the very skies, Now sinking into the depths of ocean. Ah ! if our souls but poise and swing Like the compass...sounds we hear, Will be those of joy and not of fear !" Then the Master, With a gesture of command, Waved his hand ; And at the word, Loud and sudden there... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1852 - 258 pages
...With endless and uneasy motion. Now touching the very skies, Now sinking into the depths of ocean. Ah ! if our souls but. poise and swing Like the compass in its bra/en ring, Ever level and ever true To the toil and the task we have to do, We shall sail securely,... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853 - 470 pages
...With endless and uneasy motion, Now touching the very skies, Now sinking into the depths of ocean. Ah ! if our souls but poise and swing Like the compass...sounds we hear, Will be those of joy and not of fear ! " Then the Master, With a gesture of command, Waved his hand ; And at the word, Loud and sudden there... | |
| Ludwig Herrig - American literature - 1854 - 580 pages
...With endless and uneasy motion, Now touching the very skies, Now sinking into the depths of ocean. Ah! if our souls but poise and swing Like the compass...sounds we hear, Will be those of joy and not of fear!" Then the Master, With a gesture of command, Waved bis hand. And at tho word, Loud and sudden there... | |
| John Cumming - Christian life - 1854 - 322 pages
...compass in its brazen ring, Ever level and ever true, To the toil and the task we have to do, 'Via shall sail securely, and safely reach The Fortunate...sounds we hear, Will be those of joy and not of fear." " But seek ye first the kingdom of Qod, and his righteousness ; and all these things shall be added... | |
| John Cumming - Christian life - 1854 - 320 pages
...salvation." My faith hath saved me ; I now come in peace. CHAPTER XIX. THE WAT OP THE BLESSED LIFE. " Ah ! if our souls but poise and swing, Like the compass...ever true, To the toil and the task we have to do, AYe shall sail securely, and safely reach The Fortunate Isles, on whose shining beach The sights we... | |
| 1854 - 738 pages
...that the task we have to do, 7* »hall sail securely, and safely reach Tbc Fortunate blés, on whoso shining beach The sights we see. and the sounds we hear, Will be those of joy and not of fear Г Then the master. With a gesture of command, Waved his hand. And at the word, Loud and sudden there... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 264 pages
...With endless and uneasy motion, Now touching the very skies, Now sinking into the depths of ocean. Ah ! if our souls but poise and swing Like the compass...sounds we hear, Will be those of joy and not of fear!" Then the Master. With a gesture of command, Waved his hand ; And at the word, Loud and sudden there... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 578 pages
...With endless and uneasy motion, Now touching the very skies, Now sinking into the depths of the ocean. Ah ! if our souls but poise and swing Like the compass...whose shining beach The sights we see, and the sounds wo hear, Will be those of joy and not of fear !" Then the Master, With a gesture of command. Waved... | |
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