 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...begin, Each evening sees it close : Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose. Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend, For the...sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought! LONGFELLOW. II. THE PRINTER'S SONG. " WHAT, indeed, will be the particular effects, in the first instance,... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 578 pages
...begun, Each evening sees it close ; Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose. Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend, For the...sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought. MY FATHER. MY good father diod at the age of four score, [o'er; Snow-white were the locks which his... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1856 - 678 pages
...begin, Each evening sees it close ; Something attempted—something done, Has earned a night's repose. Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend For the lesson...on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thouEht 1 1 302 HENRY W. LONGFELLOW. EXCELSIOR. Thi shades of night were falling fast, As through an... | |
 | Joseph Gostwick - American literature - 1856 - 338 pages
...task begin, Each evening sees it close ; Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend, For the lesson them hast taught: Thus at the flaming forge of life Our...sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought!' The Golden Legend is a dramatic and mystical version of an old German story, versified by a minnesinger... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1856 - 810 pages
...begin, Each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose. Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend, For the...flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be wrought; ENDYMION. THE rising moon has hid the stars; Her level rays, like golden bars, Lie on the landscape... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1856 - 432 pages
...something douo, Has earned a night's repose. Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend, For the lesson thon hast taught ! Thus at the flaming forge of life Our...sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought ! ENDYMION. THE rising moou luis hid the stars ; Her level rays, like golden bars, Lie on the landscape... | |
 | Readers - 1856 - 518 pages
...done. Has earned a night's repose. Thanks, thanks to thet-, my worthy friend, For the lesson thou host taught! Thus, at the flaming forge of Life, Our fortunes...sounding anvil shaped, Each burning deed, and thought. H. W. LONGFELLOW 52. ALAU1C THE VISIGOTH. Alaric etormed and spoiled the city of Rome, and was afterwards... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1856 - 696 pages
...begin, Each evening sees it close ; Something attempted—something dune, Has earned a night's repose. Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend, For the lesson thou hast taught ! Thus at the flaming forjre of Life Our fortunes must be wrought, Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and... | |
 | American poetry - 1856 - 352 pages
...begin, Each evening sees it close ; Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose. Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend, For the lesson thou hast taught! Thus at the naming forgo of life Our fortunes must be wrought; Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed... | |
 | Helen Cross Knight - 1857 - 454 pages
...floor." And then the moral built upon the blacksmith's " something attempted — something done:" " Thus at the flaming forge of life, Our fortunes must...sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought I " But, ah, the flames of his forge were burning dimmer and dimmer: " I have," said Montgomery, "... | |
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Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend, For the lesson thou hast taught! Thus at the flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be wrought, Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought. 
