At break of day, as heavenward The pious monks of Saint Bernard Uttered the oft-repeated prayer, A voice cried through the startled air Excelsior ! A traveller, by the faithful hound, Half-buried in the snow was found, Still grasping in his hand of ice... The New York Review - Página 2111842Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
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...A voice cried through the startled air Excelsior ! A traveller, by the faithful hound, Half-buried in the snow was found, Still grasping in his hand...There in the twilight cold and gray, Lifeless, but beatiful, he lay, And from the sky, serene and fair, A voice fell, like a falling star, Excslsior !... | |
| Charles Walton Sanders, Joshua Chase Sanders - 1848 - 468 páginas
...voice cried through the starled air, — EXCELSIOR ! 7. A traveler, by the faithful hound, Half-buried in the snow was found, Still grasping in his hand...That banner with the strange device, — EXCELSIOR ! 8. There in the twilight cold and gray, Lifeless, but beautiful, he lay, And from the sky serene... | |
| Edward Payson Weston - 1849 - 200 páginas
...A voice cried through the startled air Excelsior ! A traveller, by the faithful hound, Half-buried in the snow was found, Still grasping in his hand...far, A voice fell, like a falling star, Excelsior I TO THE AUTHOR'S WIFE, ABSENT ON A VISIT. BY SEBA SMITH. COME home my dear Elizabeth ; I'm sure could... | |
| Spring flowers, S. P. - 1849 - 178 páginas
...voice came through the startled air, "Excelsior !" A traveller, by the faithful hound, Half-buried in the snow was found, Still grasping in his hand of ice That banner with the strange devica, "Excelsior !" There in the twilight cold and gray, Lifeless but beautiful he lay, And from... | |
| Lydia Maria Child - 1849 - 298 páginas
...it without being reminded of Longfellow's inspired lines so exquisitely sung by the Hutchinsons : " And from the sky serene and far, A voice fell, like a falling star, Excelsior." I find it not easy to come away from that steepleharmony to this city of turmoil and traffic. I will... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 462 páginas
...A voice cried through the startled air Excelsior ! A traveller, by the faithful hound, Half-buried in the snow was found, Still grasping in his hand...A voice fell, like a falling star, Excelsior ! THE BELFRY OF BRUGES. IN the market-place of Bruges stands the belfry old and brown ; Thrice consumed and... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 500 páginas
...A voice cried through the startled air Excelsior ! A traveller, by the faithful hound, Half-buried in the snow was found, Still grasping in his hand...far, A voice fell, like a falling star, Excelsior ! POEMS ON SLAVERY. 1842. [The following poems, with one exception, were written at sea, in the latter... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - 608 páginas
...cried through the startled air — ' Excelsior !' " A traveler, by the faithful hound, Half buried mes a martyrdom; and if it extend to the whole impression,...elemental life, but strikes at the ethereal ami fift ; Ai d from the sky, serene and far, A voice fell like a falling star — ' Excelsior !' " • We are... | |
| 1850 - 604 páginas
...cried through the startled air — ' Excelsior !' " A traveler, by the faithful hound, Half buried in the snow was found — Still grasping in his hand...twilight cold and gray, Lifeless, but beautiful, he lay ; Ai.d from the sky, serene and far, A voice fell like a falling star — ' Excelsior !' " We are sorry... | |
| Salem Town - 1850 - 374 páginas
...was found, Still grasping in his hand of ice That banner with the strange device, — Excelsior ! 8. There, in the twilight cold and gray, Lifeless, but...far, A voice fell, like a falling star, — Excelsior ! QUSSTIONS. How ia ambition represented in thia piece ? 1. What was the derica on the banner of the... | |
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