 Lo ! in that house of misery A lady with a lamp I see Pass through the glimmering gloom, And flit from room to room. And slow, as in a dream of bliss, The speechless sufferer turns to kiss Her shadow, as it falls Upon the darkening walls.  The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Other Poems - Page 114by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1859 - 119 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Lizzie Alldridge - Women - 1885 - 156 pages
...of misery A lady with a lamp I see Pass through the glimmering gloom, And flit from room to room. " And slow, as in a dream of bliss, The speechless sufferer...kiss Her shadow as it falls Upon the darkening walls. " On England's annals, through the long Hereafter of her speech and song, A light its rays shall cast... | |
 | John Swett - Elocution - 1886 - 416 pages
...A lady | with a lamp | I see | Pass through the glimmering gloom, And flit | from room to room. 7. And slow | as in a dream of bliss, The speechless...Her shadow, as it falls | Upon the darkening walls. 8. As if a door in heaven | should be | Opened | and then closed suddenly, The vision | came and we'nt,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1886 - 560 pages
...deliver Tu the Queen of the W eat, In her garlands dressed, On the banks of the Beautiful River. I As if a door in heaven should be Opened and then closed snddenly, The vision came and went, The light shone and was spent. On England's annals, through the... | |
 | Helen Gray Cone, Jeannette Leonard Gilder - Authors, English - 1887 - 310 pages
...ministering in that " house of misery" where, — to quote lines written of another famous woman, — " Slow, as in a dream of bliss, The speechless sufferer...Her shadow, as it falls Upon the darkening walls." My father instructed me himself. The effect of this was so far good that, not passing through the hands... | |
 | Sir Wyke Bayliss - Art - 1888 - 228 pages
...Nightingale — herself — not an imaginary suggestion of what she might have been, but she herself — " As if a door in heaven should be Opened, and then closed suddenly." And then we see the interior of a class-room in London, with a few grave men and thoughtful women,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1890 - 458 pages
...house of misery A lady with a lamp 1 see Pass through the glimmering gloom, And flit from room to room. And slow, as in a dream of bliss, The speechless sufferer turns to kiss Her shadow, ns it falls Upon the darkening walls. As if a door in heaven should be Opened and then closed suddenly,... | |
 | Amelia E. Barr - American fiction - 1891 - 328 pages
...cloud above them— the little cloud, no bigger than a man's hand. CHAPTER VI. "IT HAS TO BE BORNE." As if a door in heaven should be Opened and then closed...vision came and went, The light shone and was spent. — Longfellow. '"PHE cloud came from the west — from the far south1 west. It was the shadow of war;... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1891 - 324 pages
...house of misery A lady with a lamp I see Pass through the glimmering gloom, And flit from room to room. And slow, as in a dream of bliss, The speechless sufferer turns to kisa Her shadow, as it falls Upon the darkening walls. As if a door in heaven should be Opened and... | |
 | New Hampshire. State hospital, Concord - Psychiatric hospitals - 1893 - 126 pages
...house of misery A lady with a lamp I see Pass through the glimmering gloom, And flit from room to room. "And slow, as in a dream of bliss, The speechless...Her shadow, as it falls Upon the darkening walls. "On England's annals, through the long Hereafter of her speech and song, A light its rays shall cast... | |
 | Josephine L. Forsaith - Conduct of life - 1893 - 254 pages
...misery A lady with a lamp I see Pass through the glimmering gloom, And flit from room to room. Then slow, as in a dream of bliss. The speechless sufferer...kiss Her shadow as it falls Upon the darkening walls. On England's annals, through the long Hereafter of her speech and song, A light its rays shall cast... | |
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