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
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1886 - 560 pages
...ghosts, As silent аs the pictures on the wall. The stranger at my fireside cannot see The forms l sec, nor hear the sounds I hear ; He but perceives...have no title-deeds to house or lands ; Owners and oecupants of earlier dates From graves forgotten stretch their dusty hands, And hold in mortmain still... | |
| Joanna Harrison - English fiction - 1886 - 424 pages
...duty which the others found too irksome, and the pony carriage was ordered forthwith. CHAPTER XI. ' We have no title-deeds to house or lands ; Owners...hands, And hold in mortmain still their old estates.' BULCOTE MANOR, the residence of the Freemans, was distant from the Priory about three miles by the... | |
| J. C. Street - First philosophy - 1887 - 710 pages
...mind is ripened — then we behold them. " 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." Dear Pilgrim of the heavenly way, never resort to argument. Mountains of theory often become mole-hills... | |
| J. C. Street - First philosophy - 1887 - 658 pages
...mind is ripened — then we behold them. " 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." Dear Pilgrim of the heavenly way, never resort to argument. Mountains of theory often become mole-hills... | |
| 1887 - 400 pages
...felt the truth of Longfellow's words : — The stranger at my fireside cannot see The forms I see, or hear the sounds I hear ; He but perceives what is...while unto me All that has been is visible and clear. These words, with a slight alteration, are applicable to the feeling awakened in my mind by these reminiscences... | |
| Bela Hubbard - History - 1887 - 614 pages
...throng around him if each skeleton form of the thousands that lay below could answer to his summons ! " From graves forgotten stretch their dusty hands, And hold in mortmain still their old estates." Within even the brief period of the ascendency of the Anglo-Saxon in this region, how much of the past... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1889 - 264 pages
...we have feet to scale and climb By slow degrees, by more and more, The cloudy summits of our time. The stranger at my fireside cannot see The forms I...dates From graves forgotten stretch their dusty hands The spirit-world around this world of sense Floats like an atmosphere, and everywhere Wafts through... | |
| Alfred Sereno Hudson - Sudbury (Mass.) - 1889 - 768 pages
...Indian Deeds. — Incorporation of the Town. — Name. — Sketch of Sudbury, Eng. — Town Boundaries. We have no title-deeds to house or lands ; Owners...hands, And hold in mortmain still their old estates. LONGFELLOW. BEFORE considering the successive steps in the settlement of the town, we will notice the... | |
| Henry Whalley Nicholson - Hawaii - 1889 - 412 pages
...IbM SWORD To 5flAfl2. CHAPTER XXV. MAUI. “The stranger at my fireside cannot see The forms I see, nor hear the sounds I hear; He but perceives what...unto me All that has been is visible and clear.” Mnui—pre-ordained----hoet was from home, but the charmingly-furnished drawing-room, in which his... | |
| Samuel Fitch Hotchkin - Chestnut Hill (Pa.) - 1889 - 634 pages
...the floors." ****** " We have no title deeds to house or lands; Owners ami occupants of earlier dales From graves forgotten stretch their dusty hands, And hold in mortmain still their old estates." It is said that the ghost of modern writers is more polished than the fantastic apparition of former... | |
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