 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...  Class-book of English Poetry - Page 79by English poetry - 1866Full view - About this book
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1843 - 558 pages
...PUBLIC aT's 301 EXCELSIOR. Tax shades of night were falling fa*t, As through an Alpine village pass'd A youth, who bore, mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device, Excelsior ! His brow was e beneath Be still, sad heart, and cease repining ; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining ; Thy... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1843 - 278 pages
...glimmerings almost meet, Crowd back to narrow bounds the ancient night. EXCELSIOR. BY HENRY W. LONGFELLOW. 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... | |
 | Jules Janin - Paris (France) - 1844 - 354 pages
...French voices, the favorite air which our master had composed, expressly for my little sister Nelly ; The shades of night were falling fast, As through...and ice, A banner with the strange device, Excelsior ! Do you wish to know the history of this worthy Schlesinger, whom our virtuosos of Paris recalled... | |
 | Jules Janin - Paris (France) - 1844 - 254 pages
...voices, the favorite air which our master had composed, expressly for my little sister Nelly : — " The shades of night were falling fast, As through...and ice, A banner with the strange device, Excelsior !" Do you wish to know the history of this worthy Schlesinger, whom our virtuosos of Paris recalled... | |
 | 1853 - 684 pages
...Sleeper, it may be you ! If you continue to sleep, then, thou art the man ! EXCELSIOR! BY HW LONGFELLOW. The shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore, 'mid enow and ice, A banner, with the strange device, Excelsior ! His brow was sad; his eye beneath Flashed... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1844 - 136 pages
...Life Our fortunes must be wrought, Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought. 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... | |
 | Timothy Shay Arthur - 1845 - 908 pages
...а роеш worthy of our author and of his readers. ' »EXCELSIOR. «' The shades of night w«*re falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed...'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device ExceUior ! " His brow was sad ; his eye beneath, Flashed like a fautchiuii from its sheath, And like... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 302 pages
...Toussaint L'Ouverture, by Wm. Wordsworth, ...... 288 n L, As POEMS BY HENRY W. LONGFELLOW. ENCELSIOR. \ Tbe shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine...! His brow was sad; his eye beneath Flashed like a faulchion from its sheath ; And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 308 pages
...POEMS BY HENRY W. LONGFELLOW. EXCELSIOR. The shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpinn village passed A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice,...! His brow was sad; his eye beneath Flashed like a faulchion from its sheath ; And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior... | |
 | 208 pages
...apology and a promise, we give, to-day, one of the noblest, sweetest effusions of his genius : — The shades of night were falling fast, As through...His brow was sad ; his eye beneath Flashed like a faulchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior... | |
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