 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
 | Stephen Watkins Clark - English language - 1851 - 204 pages
...breath ; With accents of kindness, then cheer her lone way E'en to the dark valley of death. — IB. IX. The shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore through snow and ice A banner, with the strange device — Excelsior ! In happy homes he saw the light... | |
 | 1851 - 1306 pages
...literature of our country: The shades of night теге fallin A--< through an Alpine village parsed A youth, who bore. ?mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device, Excelsior ! * Hie brow was sad ; his evo beneath Flanh'd like a falchion from itd sheath, And like a silver clarion... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1852 - 570 pages
...For powers divine array him ; Behold ! He does but speak the word, 86. EXCELSIOR. — HW Longfellow. THE shades of night were falling fast, As through...His brow was sad ; his eye beneath Flashed like a falehion from its sheath ; And like a silver elarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1852 - 256 pages
...seal ; And that smile, like sunshine, dart Into many a sunless heart, For a smile of God thou art. EXCELSIOR. THE shades of night were falling fast,...and ice, A banner with the strange device Excelsior ! ISO MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. His brow was sad; Ids eye beneath, 1 'lashed like a faulchion from its sheath,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1852 - 588 pages
...and thought. EXCELSIOR. TKI 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 was sad ; hia eye beneath Flash'd like a faulchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents... | |
 | 1852 - 620 pages
...philosophical analysis of this " Psalm of Life ;" but we have to quote another famous effusion called " EXCELSIOR. " The shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village pass'd A youth who bare, "mid snow and ice, A banner with this strange device — Excelsior! " His... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1852 - 610 pages
...philosophical analysis of this " Psalm of Life ;" but we have to quote another famous effusion called " EXCELSIOR. " The shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village pass'd A youth who bare, 'mid snow and ice, A banner with this strange device — Excelsior ! " His... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853 - 496 pages
...seal ; And that smile, like sunshine, dart Into many a sunless heart, For a smile of God thou art. 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... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1853 - 588 pages
...that fly, Like chaff from the threshing-floor." " His brow was sad ; his eye beneath Flash'd like the falchion from its sheath ; And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue." " Throujfh the cloted blinds, the golden inn I'our'd in a dusty beam, Like the celestial ladder seen... | |
 | Daniel Wise - 1853 - 254 pages
...steadily at his post. Like the hero of a modern poet, if " His brow was sad, his eye beneath Flash'd like a falchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that well-known tongue, Excelsior !" We have already seen him escape the plots and schemes of his adversaries... | |
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