| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1843 - 278 pages
...tongue, Excelsior ! In happy homes he saw the light Of household fires gleam warm and bright : Above, the spectral glaciers shone, And from his lips escaped...!" And loud that clarion voice replied, Excelsior ! 140 EXCELSIOR. " O stay," the maiden said, " and rest Thy weary head upon this breast I" A tear stood... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1843 - 558 pages
...tongue, Excelsior ! In happy homes he saw the light Of household fires gleam warm and bright : Above, the spectral glaciers shone, And from his lips escaped a groan, Excelsior ! 's Try not tffe pass !" the old man said ; " Dark lowers the tempest overhead, The roaring torrent... | |
| William Bentley Fowle - Recitations - 1844 - 302 pages
...tongue, Excelsior ! In happy homes he saw the light Of household fires gleam warm and bright : Above, the spectral glaciers shone, And from his lips escaped...!" And loud that clarion voice replied, Excelsior ! "Oh, stay," the maiden said, "and rest Thy weary head upon this breast !" A tear stood in his bright... | |
| 1853 - 684 pages
...tongue. Excelsior ! In happy homes he saw the light Of household fires gleam warm and bright ; Above, the spectral glaciers shone, And from his lips escaped...groan, Excelsior ! • Try not the Pass !" the old man laid, "Dark lowers the tempest overhead, The roaring torrent is deep and wide I" And loud that clarion... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1844 - 136 pages
...tongue, Excelsior I In happy homes he saw the light Of household fires gleam warm and bright: Above, the spectral glaciers shone, And from his lips escaped a groan, Excelsior! The roaring torrent ia deep and wide I" And loud that clarion voice replied, Excelsior ! "O stay,"... | |
| Timothy Shay Arthur - 1845 - 908 pages
...glories shone, And from his lips escaped a groan ExceUior ! << * Try not the pass !' the old man said ; 1 Dark lowers the tempest overhead, The roaring torrent...weary head upon this breast !' A tear stood in his blight blue eye, But still he answered with a sigh, Excelsior ! " < Beware the pine tree's withered... | |
| American literature - 1846 - 308 pages
...tongue, Excelsior ! In happy homes he saw the light Of household fires gleam warm and bright : Above, the spectral glaciers shone, And from his lips escaped...!" And loud that clarion voice replied, Excelsior ! . " Oh stay," the maiden said, " and rest Thy weary head upon this breast !" A tear stood in his... | |
| Timothy Stone Pinneo - Readers - 1847 - 502 pages
...tongue, Excelsior ! In happy homes he saw the light Of household fires gleam warm and bright ; Above, the spectral glaciers shone, And from his lips escaped...!" ' And loud that clarion voice replied, Excelsior ! " O stay," the maiden said, "and rest Thy weary head upon this breast !" A tear stood in his bright... | |
| 208 pages
...tongue, Excelsior ! In happy homes he saw the light Of household fires gleam warm and bright ; Above, the spectral glaciers shone; And from his lips escaped...! " And loud that clarion voice replied, Excelsior ! '•' Stay," the maiden said, " and rest Thy weary head upon this breast ! " A tear stood in his... | |
| Charles Walton Sanders, Joshua Chase Sanders - Readers - 1848 - 468 pages
...bright ; Above, the spectral glaciers shone, And from his lips escaped a groan, — ExCELSIOfl ! 4. " Try not the Pass !" the old man said, " Dark lowers the tempest overhead ! The roaring torrent's deep and wide !" And loud that clarion voice replied, — EXCELSIOR ! 5. " Beware the pine-tree's... | |
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