The stranger at my fireside cannot see The forms I see, nor hear the sounds I hear; He but perceives what is; while unto me All that has been is visible and clear. We have no title-deeds to house or lands; Owners and occupants of earlier dates From graves... The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Other Poems - Page 80by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1859 - 119 pagesFull view - About this book
| Thomas Hervey - Colemore (Hampshire) - 1880 - 320 pages
...Registers which contain entries of about 720 Baptisms, 400 Burials, and 256 Marriages. HISTORICAL. We have no title-deeds to house or lands ; Owners...hands, And hold in mortmain still their old estates. LONGFELLOW. INY attempt to write the early history of our country villages is sure to lead to much... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Bookbinding - 1881 - 754 pages
...pictures on the wall. The stranger at my fireside cannot see The forms I see, nor hear the sounds 1 heai ; He but perceives what is ; while unto me All that...And hold in mortmain still their old estates. The spirit^ world around this world of seuse Floats like an atmosphere, and everywhere Wafts through these... | |
| Henry Wadsworth [extracts] Longfellow - 1881 - 474 pages
...invigorating, like a breezy morning." HYPEEION. The stranger at my fireside cannot see The forms I see, nor hear the sounds I hear ; He but perceives what...while unto me All that has been is visible and clear. HAUNTED HOUSES. О. Cromwell, 1399; John КеЫе, 1792. APEIL 26. T. Eeid, 1710; D. Hume, 1711 ; JL... | |
| Henry Whalley Nicholson - Hawaii - 1881 - 416 pages
...in, developed districts. CHAPTEK XXV. MAUI. " The stranger at my fireside cannot see The forms I see, nor hear the sounds I hear ; He but perceives what...while unto me All that has been is visible and clear." MINE — pre-ordained — host was from home, but the charmingly-furnished drawing-room, in which his... | |
| Epes Sargent - American poetry - 1881 - 1000 pages
...ghosts, As silent as the pictures on the wall. The stranger at my fireside cannot see The forms I see, q ~ aud clear. We have no title-deeds to house or lands; Owners and occupants of earlier dates From graves... | |
| Henry Wadsworth [extracts] Longfellow - Birthday books - 1881 - 466 pages
...HYPEEION. The stranger at my fireside«cannot see The forms I see, nor hear the sounds I hear ; lie but perceives what is ; while unto me All that has been is visible and clear. HAUNTED HOUSES. O. Cromwell, 1599; John Keble, 1792. APBIL 26. T. Eeid, 1710; D. Hume, 1711 ; JL Uhland,... | |
| Samuel Byron Brittan - Mind and body - 1881 - 604 pages
...Science — Concluding Observations. " The stranger at my fireside can not see The forms I see n ">r hear the sounds I hear ; He but perceives what is ; while unto me Al' that has been is visible and clsar "— LONGFELLOW /CLAIRVOYANCE, derived from the French, literally... | |
| George Harwood - Democracy - 1882 - 412 pages
...according to the old motto, " In vetere novum latet, in novo vetus patet ; " for, as Longfellow says — " We have no title-deeds to house or lands ; Owners...And hold in mortmain still their old estates." The continuity of cause and effect cannot be thus broken ; the influences which have so far fashioned the... | |
| George Harwood - Democracy - 1882 - 412 pages
...according to the old motto, " In vetere novum latet, in novo vetus patet ; " for, as Longfellow says — " We have no title-deeds to house or lands ; Owners and occupants of earlier dates Prom graves forgotten stretch their dusty hands, And hold in mortmain still their old estates." The... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Publishers' bindings - 1894 - 748 pages
...ghosts, As silent as the pictures on the wall. The stranger at my fireside cannot see The forms I see, nor hear the sounds I hear ; He but perceives what...this world of sense Floats like an atmosphere, and every! where Wafts through these earthly mists and vapors dense A vital breath of more ethereal air.... | |
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