 Flowers ; In all places, then, and in all seasons, Flowers expand their light and soul-like wings, Teaching us, by most persuasive reasons, How akin they are to human things. And with childlike, credulous affection We behold their tender buds expand ;...  Voices of the Night - Page 21by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1843 - 144 pagesFull view - About this book
 | American periodicals - 1837 - 578 pages
...akin they are to human things. And with child-like, credulous affection, We behold their tender buds expand, Emblems of our own great resurrection, Emblems of the bright and better land. CtmbrUg, 0aiĞr.ily. H W- LONGFELLOW. GEOGRAPHICAL DISTINCTIONS OF COLOR. ' Look through nature up... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Digital images - 1839 - 174 pages
...akin they are to human things. And with childlike, credulous affection, We behold their tender buds expand ; — Emblems of our own great resurrection, Emblems of the bright and better land. •''-,..-'.. fo :.:.-... /. •ğ• '„. ' ' I .1 I • ffcift i*-^^--*-. ğ•• •ğ' Vi.f.... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1840 - 182 pages
...akin they are to human tilings. And with childlike, credulous affection We behold their tender buds expand ; Emblems of our own great resurrection, Emblems of the bright and better land. THE BELEAGUEKED CITY. I HAVE read, in some old marvellous tale, Some legend strange and vague, That a midnight... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - Civilization - 1840 - 464 pages
...garden was chosen for the place of his sepulture, amid the flowers which the American poet justly calls Emblems of our own great resurrection, Emblems of the bright and better land. The asceticism which closes its eyes against the loveliness of nature, and which boasts that it can pass... | |
 | New York (N.Y.) - 1840 - 818 pages
...Soon afterward Dorathen was my wife THE BELEAGUERED CITY.... BY H. I have read in some old, wondrous tale, Some legend strange and vague, That a midnight host of spectres pale Belcagured the walls of Prague. Beside the Moldau's rushing stream, With the won moon overhead, There... | |
 | Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - Caricatures and cartoons - 1904 - 484 pages
...earlier one, in which figured six ghostly Army Corps which SARK said always reminded him of LONGFELLOW'S Beleaguered City:— I have read, in some old marvellous...strange and vague, That a midnight host of spectres pale l the walls of Prague. No other voice nor sound was there, No drum, nor sentry's pace ; The mist-like... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - Civilization - 1841 - 348 pages
...garden was chosen for the place of his sepulture, amid the flowers which the American poet justly calls Emblems of our own great resurrection, Emblems of the bright and better land. The asceticism which closes its eyes against the loveliness of nature, and which boasts that it can pass... | |
 | 1870 - 406 pages
...akin they are to human things. And with childlike credulous affection, We behold their tender buds expand, Emblems of our own great resurrection ; Emblems of the bright and better land." Some of the foregoing remarks are equally applicable to birds. They, like the flowers, minister in... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1842 - 638 pages
...laid aside, If I but remember only Such as these have lived and died ! THE BELEAGURED CITY. I HATE read in some old marvellous tale Some legend strange and vague, That a midnight host of spectres pale Beleagured the walls of Prague. Beside the Moldau's rushing stream, With the wan moon overhead, There... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - Unitarian Universalist churches - 1844 - 576 pages
...earth, these golden flowers. 3 And with childlike, credulous affection, We behold their tender buds expand ; Emblems of our own great resurrection, Emblems of the bright and better land ! 374 7 & 6s. M. CHRISTIAN BALLADS. İur CounU'B. 1 Now pray we for our country, Pray that it long... | |
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