 In all places, then, and in all seasons, Flowers expand their light and soullike wings, Teaching us, by most persuasive reasons, How akin they are to human things. And with childlike, credulous affection We behold their tender buds expand ; Emblems of...  The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Page 19by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1857 - 400 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Gift books - 1845 - 336 pages
...this sweet text, the closing stanzas of which will form our appropriate and graceful conclusion. " In all places then, and in all seasons, Flowers expand their light and soul-like wings, Teaching us hy most persuasive reasons, How akin they are to human things. "And with childlike, credulous affection,... | |
 | Gift books - 1846 - 334 pages
...the closing stanzas of which will form our appropriate and graceful conclusion. " In all places thru, and in all seasons, Flowers expand their light and...childlike, credulous affection, We behold their tender buds expand ; Emblems of our own great resurrection, Emblems of the bright and better land." FMC NEW... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...On the tomb of heroes, carved in stone ; In the cottage of the rudest peasant, In ancestral houses, whose crumbling towers, Speaking of the Past unto...child-like, credulous affection We behold their tender buds expand ; Emblems of our own great resurrection, Emblems of the bright and better land." LONGFELLOW.... | |
 | Arbitration (International law) - 1873 - 398 pages
...this great world of ours ; Making evident our own creation, In these stars of earth — these golden flowers. In all places then, and in all seasons, Flowers...and soul-like wings, Teaching us, by most persuasive reason», How akin they are to human things. And with childlike, credulous affection, We behold their... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1891 - 672 pages
...What is the meaning of these words in the line of Longfellow (Ie) ? — In the cottage of the rudest peasant, In ancestral homes, whose crumbling towers,...unto the Present, Tell us of the ancient Games of Flower«. Do they refer to the games instituted in ancient Rome in honour of Flora, the goddess of... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1863 - 1194 pages
...homes, upon crumbling tower*, Speaking of the past and present, Tell of the ancient glories of the flowers ; In all places, then, and in all seasons, Flowers expand their bright and foul-like wiu gg, Teaching u-, by most persuasive reason*, How akin they arc to human things.... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 462 pages
...cathedrals, high and hoary, On the tombs of heroes, carved in stone ; In the cottage of the rudest peasant, In ancestral homes, whose crumbling towers,...child-like, credulous affection We behold their tender buds expand ; Emblems of our own great resurrection, Emblems of the bright and better land. THE BELEAGUERED... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 500 pages
...cathedrals, high and hoary, On the tombs of heroes, carved in stone ; In the cottage of the rudest peasant, In ancestral homes, whose crumbling towers,...childlike, credulous affection We behold their tender buds expand ; Emblems of our own great resurrection, Emblems of the bright and better land. THE BELEAGUERED... | |
 | John Hutton Balfour - Botany - 1851 - 272 pages
...cathedrals, high and hoary, On the tombs of heroes, carved in stone ; In the cottage of the rudest pessant, In ancestral homes, whose crumbling towers. Speaking...childlike, credulous affection, "We behold their tender buds expand ; Emblems of our own great resurrection, Emblems of the bright and better land." LONGFELLOW.... | |
 | English poetry - 1851 - 496 pages
...On the tomb of heroes, carved in stone ; lu the cottage of the rudest peasant, In ancestral houses, whose crumbling towers, Speaking of the Past unto...child-like, credulous affection We behold their tender buds expand ; Emblems of our own great resurrection, Emblems of the bright and better land. WILLIAM... | |
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