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
| Sherman Williams - Readers - 1902 - 504 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...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 forgotten stretch... | |
| Charles Yates Stephenson - Clairvoyance - 1904 - 248 pages
...developed clairvoyance — of such an one a clairvoyant might say that he "... 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." One of the best clairvoyants that ever lived was Swedenborg. Didier was another. All the saints undoubtedly... | |
| Elmer Hewitt Capen - Baccalaureate addresses - 1905 - 314 pages
...Of course we may answer these things are the bequests of the mysterious past. This is the way that "Owners and occupants of earlier dates, From graves...hands, And hold in mortmain still their old estates." This, however, is but a partial answer, because it seems to indicate a separation between the thoughts... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Calendars - 1906 - 162 pages
...air, A sense of something moving to and fro. 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 JULY TWENTY-EIGHTH They come, the shapes of joy and woe, The airy crowds of long ago,... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1906 - 164 pages
...air, A sense of something moving to and fro. 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 JULY TWENTY-EIGHTH They come, the shapes of joy and woe, The airy crowds of long ago,... | |
| William Thomas Fernie - Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric - 1907 - 518 pages
...ghosts, As silent as the pictures on the wall. The stranger at the 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. The spirit-world around this world of sense Floats like an atmosphere, and everywhere Wafts through... | |
| D. H. Wever - Literature - 1908 - 656 pages
...the wall. The stranger at my fireside cannot see The forms I see, nor hear the sounds I hear; But he perceives what is; while unto me All that has been...And hold in mortmain still their old estates. The spirit world around this world of sense Floats like an atmosphere, and everywhere Wafts through these... | |
| Emma Huntington Nason - Architecture, Colonial - 1908 - 174 pages
...Father and benefactor of the city of Augusta." к •s. С n •л ~ ON THE RIVER AND HARBOR SHORES " We have no title-deeds to house or lands; Owners and...hands, And hold in mortmain still their old estates." — Longfellow. VII ON THE RIVER AND HARBOR SHORES S WE sail down the Kennebec, we pass many old residences... | |
| Commercial travellers - 1909 - 448 pages
...passages they come and go, Impalpable impressions on the air, A sense of something moving to and fro. We have no title-deeds to house or lands; Owners and...And hold in mortmain still their old estates. The fact of the house having found a tenant of sufficient temerity to set popular prejudice and the visits... | |
| Elliot Evans Mills - Church and state - 1909 - 420 pages
...everywhere Wafts through these earthly mists and vapours dense A vital breath of more ethereal air." " We have no title-deeds to house or lands ; Owners...occupants of earlier dates From graves forgotten stretch forth dusty hands, And hold in mortmain still their old estates.' ' " Ah ! " cries a reader, " You... | |
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