 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
 | National Sunday school union - 1871 - 598 pages
...unfailing ! How dear art Thou to me ! SKB 13. Berlin (jesanbiich. THE shades of night were falling fas As through an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore...; his eye beneath Flashed like a falchion from its aheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior! "Try not the... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders, Joshua Chase Sanders - Readers - 1848 - 468 pages
...ob|ect of his pursuit far onward and upward. EXCELSIOR, OR THE YOUTHFUL ASPIRANT. HW LONGFELLOW. 1. THE shades of night were falling fast, As through...A youth who bore, 'mid snow and ice, A banner with this strange device, — EXCELSIOR ! 2. His brow was sad ; his eyes beneath Flashed like a falchion... | |
 | Timothy Stone Pinneo - Readers - 1847 - 502 pages
...Thou that hast been to the pearl's dark shrine, O wrestler with the sea! MRS. HEMAHS. LESSON CXIV. EXCELSIOR. 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... | |
 | Nathan Ames - American literature - 1848 - 184 pages
...maiden, with a basket swung Upon her arm ; but still she sung, Ohushmychild ! Her brow was sad ; her eye beneath Flashed like a falchion from its sheath, And, like a whispering angel's, rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Ohushmychild ! In Harvard halls she saw... | |
 | Edward Payson Weston - American poetry - 1849 - 200 pages
...tablet of the vaulted sky, None but Divinity could write ! EXCELSIOR. BY HEKRY W. L 0 NG t ELLOW . 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... | |
 | 1849 - 472 pages
...the brightest prospects of success. He very much resembled the Alpine pedestrian of Longfellow : " His brow was sad ; his eye beneath Flashed like a...rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior !" He soon adopted the maxim that study is unnecessary for a person of talent; and, of course, unnecessary... | |
 | Spring flowers, S. P. - 1849 - 178 pages
...the dear God that loveth us, He made and loveth all. Coleridge. EXCELSIOR. ASPIRATION AND PROGRESS. The shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village past, A youth, who bore, 'midst snow and ice, A banner with the strange device, His brow was sad ;... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - 608 pages
...— all, all, is exquisitely beautiful: — " EXCELSIOR. " The shades of night were falling fast, AB ds six feet two in his boots, and weighs barely one hundred and fifty pounds, great-coat ofthat unknown tongue — 1 Excelsior !' " In happy homes he saw the light Of household fires gleam... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 500 pages
...doth seal ; And that smile, like sunshine, dart Into many a sunless heart, For a smile of God thou an. EXCELSIOR. THE shades of night were falling fast,...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... | |
 | University magazine - 1850 - 816 pages
...star falling from the clime he had gained — all, all, is exquisitely beautiful : — " EXCKLSIOR. " The shades of night were falling fast, As through...'Excelsior!' " His brow was sad ; his eye beneath F!a.-hed like a falchion from its sheath ; And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown... | |
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