 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1856 - 432 pages
...brightness — a more ethereal beauty — Shone on her face and encircled her form, when, after confession, Homeward serenely she walked with God's benediction...Firmly builded with rafters of oak, the house of the fanner Stood on the side of a hill commanding the sea ; and a shady Sycamore grew by the door, with... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1856 - 358 pages
...she has unwittingly learned from the moving shadows of the clouds. On her way home from confession, "when she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music." Thus should all lives be led, all steps be tuned ; and thus they shall, whenever Christian Love, instead... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Acadians - 1857 - 184 pages
...brightness — a more ethereal beauty — Shone on her face and encircled her form, when, after confession, Homeward serenely she walked with God's benediction...Firmly builded with rafters of oak, the house of the fanner Stood on the side of a hill commanding the sea , and a shady Sycamore grew by the door, with... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1857 - 428 pages
...encircled her form, when, after confession, Homeward serenely she walked with God's benediction upou her. When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing...with rafters of oak, the house of the farmer Stood 0n the side of a hill commanding the sea ; and a shady Sycamore grew by the door, with a woodbine wreathing... | |
 | 1886 - 890 pages
...our favorite poets ? If, for instance, we were quoting from Longfellow, perhaps it would be, — " When she had passed it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music." If from Shelley, it might be, — " And multitudes of dense, white, fleecy clouds Were wandering in... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1858 - 710 pages
...brightness — a more ethereal beauty — shone on her face and encircled her form, when, after confession, homeward serenely she walked with GOD'S benediction...by the door, with a woodbine wreathing around it. Rudely carved was the porch, with seats beneath ; and a foot-path led through an orchard wide, and... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1858 - 730 pages
...Jean ! ' And Jean drew the straw flat over her enchanting eyes, and swept by me like a queen, and ' When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.' I WATCHED her agile, fairy-like form, till it was lost among the leaves. I had known her five minutes,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1859 - 724 pages
...brightness, — a more ethereal beauty, — Shone on her face and encircled her form, when, after confession, Homeward serenely she walked with God's benediction...Firmly builded with rafters of oak, the house of the fanner Stood on the side of a hill commanding the sea ; and a shady Sycamore grew by the door, with... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1860 - 468 pages
...brightness — a more ethereal beauty — Shone on her face and encircled her form, when, after confession, Homeward serenely she walked with God's benediction...builded with rafters of oak, the house of the farmer t Stood on the side of a hill commanding the sea ; and a shady Sycamore grew by the door, with a woodbine... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Gilbert - American poetry - 1860 - 448 pages
...serenely she walked with God's benedietion upon her. When she had passed, it seemed like the eeasing of exquisite music. Firmly builded with rafters of...the side of a hill commanding the sea ; and a shady 171 . Sycamore grew by the door, with a woodbine wreathing around it. Hudely carved was the poreh,... | |
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Brought in the olden time from France, and since, as an heirloom, Handed down from mother to child, through long generations. But a celestial brightness — a more ethereal beauty — Shone on her face and encircled her form, when, after confession, Homeward... 
