 That fill the haunted chambers of the Night, Like some old poet's rhymes. From the cool cisterns of the midnight air, My spirit drank repose; The fountain of perpetual peace flows there, — From those deep cisterns flows.  The Gentleman's Magazine - Page 5911882Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Powell - American literature - 1850 - 380 pages
...Stoop o'er me from above ; The calm majestic presence of the night, As of the one I love ! * * * " O, holy night ! from thee I learn to bear What man has done before ; Thou layest thy finger on the lips of care, And they complain no more !" We must, however,... | |
 | Thomas Powell - American literature - 1850 - 384 pages
...Stoop o'er me from above ; The calm majestic presence of the night, As of the one I love ! * * * " O, holy night ! from thee I learn to bear What man has done before ; Thou layest thy finger on the lips of care, And they complain no more !" criminate use... | |
 | Queen's University of Belfast - Education, Higher - 1852 - 306 pages
...spirit drank repose ; The fountain of perpetual peace flows there, — From those deep cisterns flows. O holy night ! from thee I learn to bear What man...Descend with broad-winged flight, The welcome, the thrice-prayed for, the most fair, The best-beloved Night ! — LONGFELLOW. MODERN LANGUAGES— DR.... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...cisterns of the midnight air My spirit drank repose ; The fountain of perpetual peace flows there,— O holy Night ! from thee I learn to bear What man has borne before ! Thou layest thy finger on the lips of Care, And they complain no more. Peace ! Peace ! Orestes-like I breathe... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...spirit drank repose ; The fountain of perpetual peace flows there, — From those deep cisterns flows. O holy Night ! from thee I learn to bear What man has borne before ! Thou layest thy finger on the lips of Care, And they complain no more. Peace ! Peace ! Orestes-like I breathe... | |
 | 1851 - 1220 pages
...drank repose ; The fountain of perpetual peace flows there — From those deep cisterns flows, 1 0 holy Night ! from thee I learn to bear What man has borne before! Thou layest thy^fnjrcron the lips of care, And they complain no more. 'Peace! peace! Orestes-like I breathe... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1852 - 256 pages
...spirit drank repose ; The fountain of perpetual peace flows there, — From those deep cisterns flows. O holy Night ! from thee I learn to bear What man has borne before ! Thou laycst thy finger on the lips of Care, And they complain no more. Peace ! Peace ! Orestes-like I breathe... | |
 | 1852 - 518 pages
...indeed have been composed by Goethe, and remind us much of the poetry in his " Wilhelm Meister:"— " O holy Night! from thee I learn to bear What man has borne before ! Thou layest thy finger on the lips of Care, And they complain no more. " Peace! peace ! Orestes-like I breathe... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853 - 496 pages
...spirit drank repose ; The fountain of perpetual peace flows there, — From those deep cisterns flows. O holy Night ! from thee I learn to bear What man has borne before ! Thou layest thy finger on the lips of Care, And they complain no more. Peace! Peace! Orestes4ike I breathe... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 pages
...spirit drank repose ; The fountain of perpetnal peace flows there,— From those deep cisterns flows. O holy Night ! from thee I learn to bear What man has borne before ! Thou layest thy finger on the lips of Care, And they complain no more. Peace ! Peace ! Orestes-like I breathe... | |
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