 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
 | Epes Sargent - American literature - 1857 - 488 pages
...retribution, which came not before Cromwell slept in his grave UNOARD. CXXXIII. — EXCELSIOR." 1. TUB shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine...and ice, A banner with the strange device, Excelsior ! 2. His brow was sad ; his eye beneath Flashed like a falchion from its sheath, And like a silver... | |
 | Howard Paul - American ballads and songs - 1857 - 144 pages
...LONGFELLOW. Born 1807. TIIE shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village paas'd A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device, Excelsior ! * This poem has been adapted to music by a score of composers, English and American ; but, strange... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1858 - 752 pages
...this commonweal, Till the vast temple of our liberties A shapeless mass of wreck and rubbish lies. EXCELSIOR. The shades of night were falling fast,...tongue, Excelsior ! In happy homes he saw the light Above, the spectral glaciers shone. And from his lips escaped a groan, Excelsior ! " Try not the pass... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - American poetry - 1858 - 644 pages
...The jovial monks forbore, For they cried, " Fill high the goblet ! We must drink to one Saint more !" EXCELSIOR. THE shades of night were falling fast,...rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior ! 479 In happy homes he saw ihe light Of household fires gleam warm and bright ; Above, the spectral... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - American poetry - 1858 - 642 pages
...jovial monks forbore, For they cried, "Fill high the goblel '. We must drink to one Saint more:" 173 EXCELSIOR. THE shades of night were falling fast....His brow was sad ; his eye beneath, Flashed like a falehion from its sheath. And like a silver clarion rung The aecents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior... | |
 | 1858 - 882 pages
...night were fulling fast, AR through an Alpine village passed Л youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, Л banner with the strange device, Excelsior ! . His...falchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion ning Tho accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior ! In happy homes he saw the light Of household fires... | |
 | Europe - 1884 - 670 pages
...аафс тф1 ebenfo i^re Гот1|"фе Seite! bie trei ílnfaiígeftrop^en be« ®етф!ев felbft: l. The shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore, 'raid snow and ice, A banner, with the strange device, Excelsior ! Î. His brow was sad : his eye beneath... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American literature - 1858 - 480 pages
...silence for a day of retribution, which came not before Cromwell slept ic CXXXIII. EXCELSIOR.™ 1. THE shades of night were falling fast As through an Alpine village passed A youth, wno bore, 'mid ltaow~nd io^, "3. banner with the strange device, Excelsior ! 2. His brow was sad ;... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 pages
...by park and pale ; All-arm'd I ride, whate'er betide, Until I find the holy Grail. Alfred Tennyson. 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 was... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1858 - 292 pages
...I awoke, on this dear hand to press The bridal ring ! the bridal ring ! EXCELSIOR! [HW LOKQFBLLOW.] The shades of night were falling fast As through an Alpine village pass'd A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ico, A banner, with the strange device, Excelsior ! His brow... | |
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