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. Poems - Page 242by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 927 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1876 - 818 pages
...curse of labour : — '- Thauks — thanks to thee.'my worthy friend, For the lesson thou hast taught t Thus at the flaming forge of life Our fortunes must...sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought." Lat us be content to retain "The Village Blacksmith " as a sort of fossil embodied in brilliant amber.... | |
| 1844 - 454 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 ! GARDENING HINTS FOR FEBRUARY. HOTHOUSES, CONSERYATORIES, &C. Conservatory. — Where forced flowers... | |
| 1841 - 754 pages
...repose. Thanks ! thanks to thee, my worthy friend, For the lesson thou hast taught ! Thus at the sounding forge of Life Our fortunes must be wrought, Thus on...sounding anvil shaped, Each burning deed and thought. HEMRY W. LONGFELLOW. EDITED AND ILLUSTRATED BY ALFRED CROWQTJILL. HE INTRODUCTION. MY acquaintance... | |
| 1840 - 566 pages
...begin, Each evening sees it close j 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, EXTRACT FROM A NOTE-BOOK. OUR nice travelling chariot, with all its trunks, cases, pockets, down-cushions,... | |
| 1840 - 576 pages
...evening sees it close ; Something attempted — something done, Has earned a night's repose. VIII. Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend, For the...flaming forge of Life, Our fortunes must be wrought, EXTRACT FROM A NOTE-BOOK. Oun nice travelling chariot, with all its trunks, cases, pockets, down-cushions,... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1841 - 710 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 sounding forge of Life Our fortunes must be wrought, Thus on its sounding anvil shaped, Each burning... | |
| 1841 - 744 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 sounding forge of Life Our fortunes must be wrought, Thus on its sounding anvil shaped, Each burning... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1842 - 638 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, 300 301 EXCELSIOR. THE shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village pass'd A youth,... | |
| 1856 - 1026 pages
...earned a night's repose. Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy frieud, For the lesson thou hast taught 1 Thus at the flaming forge of life Our fortunes must...sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought I LONGFELLOW. AKATANGI, THE BELL-RINGER OF ERROMANGA. IN the year 1840, I was one day sitting in my... | |
| 1842 - 610 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 1 Thus at the flaming forge of Life Our fortunes must be wrought, Thus on its sounding anvil shaped... | |
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