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" 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! "Try not the pass! "
Class-book of English Poetry - Page 80
by English poetry - 1866
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Pleasant pages (by S.P. Newcombe). [With suppl., entitled ..., Volume 1

Samuel Prout Newcombe - 1851 - 398 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...not the pass !" the old man said ; " Dark lowers the tempost overhead, The roaring torrent is deep and wide !" And loud that clarion voice replied Excelsior...
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The North British review

1852 - 620 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...wide, 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...
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The Standard Speaker: Containing Exercises in Prose and Poetry for ...

Epes Sargent - Readers - 1852 - 570 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...
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The Poets and Poetry of America: To the Middle of the Nineteenth Century

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1852 - 588 pages
...tongue, Excelsior ! In happy homes he saw the light Of household (ires 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, "anJ rest Thy weary head upon this breast !" A tear stood in his bright...
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Voices of the Night, and Other Poems

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1852 - 258 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...
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The Standard Speaker: Containing Exercises in Prose and Poetry for ...

Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1852 - 568 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...
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The Standard Speaker: Containing Exercises in Prose and Poetry for ...

Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1852 - 570 pages
...Excelsior ! In happy homes he saw the light Of household fires gleam warm and bright : Above, the speetral glaciers shone ; And from his lips escaped a groan,...roaring torrent is deep and wide ! " And loud that elarion voice replied, Excelsior ! " O, stay," the maiden said, " and rest Thy weary head upon this...
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"Excelsior" Or The Realms of Poesie

James Orton - English poetry - 1852 - 182 pages
...LONDON WILLIAM PICKERING 1852 • " ' TRY not the Pafs ! ' the old man faid ; ' Dark lowers the tempeft overhead, The roaring torrent is deep and wide ! ' And loud that clarion voice replied ' Excelfior ! ' " Longfellow. THE world's right alchemy reveals no blank, Its poets turning meaneft...
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The training school reader. [Ed.] by W.J. Unwin. 2nd book, division 1

William Jordan Unwin - 1853 - 172 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...
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Poems, Volume 1

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853 - 496 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 ! cc Try not the Pass ! " the old man said ; "Dark lowers the tempest overhead, The roaring torrent...
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