 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...  Harper's New Monthly Magazine - Page 10edited by - 1858Full view - About this book
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1842 - 590 pages
...exciting incidents that occurred on our way to and from Kennington. EXCELSIOR. BY WH LONGFELLOW. THE shades of night were falling fast. As through an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore, 'midst snow and ice, A banner with the strange device — Exceltior ! His brow was sad ; his eye beneath... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Literary Criticism - 1842 - 144 pages
...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 faulchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1842 - 638 pages
...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 sad ; his eye beneath Flash'd like a faulehion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Literary Criticism - 1842 - 148 pages
...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, 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,... | |
 | American periodicals - 1842 - 546 pages
...modest to subject his labors to the graver, and thus share in the fame of the poet. "EXCELSIOR. " 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,... | |
 | 1842 - 694 pages
...incidents that occurred on our way to and from Kennington. EXCELSIOR. BY 11. W. LONGFELLOW. • THE shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore, 'midst snow and ice, A banner with the strange device — Excelsior ! His brow was sad ; his eye beneath... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1843 - 280 pages
...LONGFELLOW. 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 sad : his eye beneath Flash'd like a faulchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung, The accents of that unknown... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1843 - 570 pages
...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, 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,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1843 - 558 pages
...EXCELSIOR. Tax shades of night were falling fa*t, 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 e beneath Be still, sad heart, and cease repining ; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining ; Thy... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1844 - 136 pages
...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 sad ; his eye beneath Flash'd like a falchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown... | |
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