ALL houses wherein men have lived and died Are haunted houses. Through the open doors The harmless phantoms on their errands glide, With feet that make no sound upon the floors. We meet them at the doorway, on the stair, Along the passages they come and... The Gift Book of Gems - Page 201856 - 312 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1860 - 1246 pages
...fell gently around as we came to the cottage door. — Leisure Sour. HAUNTED HOUSES. BY HW LONGFELLOW. ALL houses wherein men have lived and died Are haunted...meet them at the doorway, on the stair; Along the passages they come and go; Impalpable impressions on the air, A sense of something moving to and fro.... | |
| Manchester district Sunday school assoc - 744 pages
...and they reverence the very walls, as if they were haunted by his spirit. The poet truly says — " All houses wherein men have lived and died Are haunted...glide, With feet that make no sound upon the floors." HIW There is not one sacred hour of the heart's intercourse with others, in which we are not looking... | |
| S. Herbert Lancey - 1854 - 338 pages
...away. Down the broad Vale of Tears afar The spectral camp is fled : Faith shineth as a morning star, HENRY W. LONGFELLOW. PHANTOMS. ALL houses wherein...Impalpable impressions on the air, A sense of something riloving to and fro. There are more guests at table than the hosts Invited ; the illuminated hall Is... | |
| 1858 - 456 pages
...clearly the value of the local associations which in old countries we enjoy but do not reason upon : " All houses wherein men have lived and died Are haunted...meet them at the doorway, on the stair, Along the passages they come and go, Impalpable impressions on the air, A sense of something moving to and fro.... | |
| 1858 - 572 pages
...of all, it is enough in itself to win for him lasting and we quote it, in taking leave of the fame: All houses wherein men have lived and died Are haunted houses. Through the open doora The harmless phantoms on their errands glide, With feet that make no sound upon the floors. We... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1859 - 724 pages
...aloft their torches lighted, Gleaming through the realms benighted, As they onward bear the message ! ALL houses wherein men have lived and died Are haunted...meet them at the doorway, on the stair, Along the passages they come and go, Impalpable impressions on the air, A sense of something moving to and fro.... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1859 - 136 pages
...like music through my brain ; Night interpreted to mo All its grace and mystery. 79 HAUNTED HOUSES. ALL houses wherein men have lived and died Are haunted...meet them at the door-way, on the stair, Along the passages they come and go, Impalpable impressions on the air, A sense of something moving to and fro.... | |
| 1859 - 396 pages
...POST. Every day from One till Four, Mr. Adolphe Didier gives his Mesmeric seances. * HAUNTED HOUSES. ALL houses wherein men have lived and died Are haunted...feet that make no sound upon the floors. We meet them in the doorway, on the stair, Along the passage they come and go, Impalpable impressions on the air,... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Gilbert - 1860 - 448 pages
...God in prayer, That, to quiet their troubled spirits, He had sent this Ship of Air. HAUNTED HOUSES. ALL houses wherein men have lived and died Are haunted...harmless phantoms on their errands glide, With feet that moke no sound upon the floors. We meet them at the door-way, on the stair, Along the passages they... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1861 - 912 pages
...rose bright o'erhead ; Nothing in Nature's aspect intimated That a great man was dead. HAUNTED HOUSES ALL houses wherein men have lived and died Are haunted...phantoms on their errands glide, With feet that make 710 sound upon the floors. We meet them at the door- way, on the stair, Along the passages they come... | |
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