 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
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1913 - 626 pages
...nurse is used here generically. Mr. Emerson had in mind Longfellow's lines in " Santa Filomena "; — "And slow, as in a dream of bliss, The speechless...Her shadow, as it falls Upon the darkening walls." politicians, whom the trumpet of resurrection cannot waken. WAR There was no need of trumpets, There... | |
 | Sir Edward Tyas Cook - Nurses - 1913 - 566 pages
...hour 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. The men idolized her. They kissed her shadow, and they saluted her as she passed down their wounded... | |
 | Sir Edward Tyas Cook - 1914 - 584 pages
...hour 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...Her shadow, as it falls Upon the darkening walls. The men idolized her. They kissed her shadow, and they saluted her as she passed down their wounded... | |
 | Sir Edward Tyas Cook - Military nursing - 1914 - 562 pages
...hour 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...Her shadow, as it falls Upon the darkening walls. The men idolized her. They kissed her shadow, and they saluted her as she passed down their wounded... | |
 | Edith Horton - Women - 1914 - 240 pages
...Nightingale, referring to her habit of going about the hospitals at night with a lamp in her hand : "On England's annals through the long Hereafter of her speech and song, A light its ray shall cast From the portals of the past. "A lady with a lamp shall stand In the great... | |
 | William Henry Maxwell - English language - 1915 - 184 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...vision came and went, The light shone and was spent. 24 On England's annals, through the long Hereafter of her speech and song, That light its rays shall... | |
 | Ella Flagg Young, Walter Taylor Field - Readers - 1915 - 392 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...vision came and went, The light shone and was spent. romantic (r6 man't1c) : wild and gram (gram) : a measure of weight, beautiful. equal to about 15^ grains.... | |
 | Emily Clough Peabody - Bible - 1915 - 224 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...Her shadow, as it falls Upon the darkening walls. On England's annals, through the long Hereafter of her speech and song, That light its rays shall cast... | |
 | E. M. Robertson - Nurses - 1916 - 78 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...and was spent. On England's annals, through the long Herafter of her speech and song, That light its rays shall cast From portals of the past. A Lady with... | |
 | Minnie Goodnow - 1916 - 402 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, That light its rays shall cast... | |
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