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" In the old Tuscan town stands Giotto's tower, The lily of Florence blossoming in stone, — A vision, a delight, and a desire, — The builder's perfect and centennial flower, That in the night of ages bloomed alone, But wanting still the glory of the... "
Overland Monthly: Devoted to the Development of the Country - Page 251
1904
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The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1883 - 550 pages
...completeness in. complete ! In the old Tuscan town stands Giotto** tower, The lily of Florence blossoming ID stone, — A vision, a delight, and a desire, —...bloomed alone. But wanting still the glory of the spire. TO-MORROW. 'T is late at night, and m the realm of sleep My little lambs are folded like the flocks...
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Longfellow's poetical works. Author's complete copyr. ed

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1883 - 744 pages
...saint, And are in their completeness incomplete ! In the old Tuscan town stands Giotto's tower, song: A vision, a delight, and a desire, — The builder's...bloomed alone, But wanting still the glory of the spire. TO-MORROW. 'Tis late at night, and in the realm of sleep My little lambs arefolded liketheflocks ;...
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Poetical Works

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1886 - 548 pages
...artists paint Around the shining forehead of th» saint, And are in their completeness incomplete ! In the old Tuscan town stands Giotto's tower, The lily of Florence blossoming iu stone, — A vision, a delight, and a desire, — The builder's perfect and centennial flower, That...
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The New England Magazine, Volume 3

1891 - 866 pages
...Campanile of Giotto, the most splendid memorial of the arts of Florence." And Longfellow has sung : "In the old Tuscan town stands Giotto's tower, The...alone, But wanting still the glory of the spire." In the Cologne Cathedral chime, in which belongs the " Emperor's Bell " already spoken of, there are...
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Birds of passage. Flower-de-luce. A book of sonnets. The masque of Pandora ...

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1886 - 348 pages
...artists paint Around the shining forehead of the saint, And are in their completeness incomplete ! In the old Tuscan town stands Giotto's tower, The...a desire, — The builder's perfect and centennial Sower, That in the night of ages bloomed alone, But wanting still the glory of the spire. TO-MORROW....
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The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: With Numerous Illustrations

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1887 - 360 pages
...artists paint Around the shining forehead of the saint, And are in their completeness incomplete ! In the old Tuscan town stands Giotto's tower, The...bloomed alone, But wanting still the glory of the spire. TO-MORROW. 'T 19 late at night, and in the realm of sleep My little lambs are folded like the flocks;...
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A Selection from the Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1889 - 264 pages
...artists paint Around the shining forehead of the saint, And are in their completeness incomplete ; In the old Tuscan town stands Giotto's tower, The...bloomed alone, But wanting still the glory of the spire. THREE CANTOS OF DANTE'S PARADISO. CANTO XXIII. [Dante is with Beatrice in the eighth circle, that of...
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Representative Sonnets by American Poets: With an Essay on the Sonnet, Its ...

Charles Henry Crandall - 1890 - 400 pages
...artists paint Around the shining forehead of the saint, And are in their completeness incomplete ! In the old Tuscan town stands Giotto's tower, The...ages bloomed alone, But wanting still the glory of a spire. HENRY W. LONGFELLOW. HOLIDAYS. THE holiest of all holidays are those Kept by ourselves in...
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The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: With ..., Volume 3

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1890 - 324 pages
...saint, And are in their completeness incomplete ! In the old Tuscan town stands Giotto's tower, Th« lily of Florence blossoming in stone, — A vision,...bloomed alone, But wanting still the glory of the spire. TO-MORROW. Written February 17, 1866. T is late at night, and in the realm of sleep My little lambs...
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In Foreign Lands

Barbara Johnson Galpin - 1892 - 162 pages
...seventy-five feet high, and one can go to the top by an interior staircase. Longfellow tells us that " In the old Tuscan town stands Giotto's tower, The...alone, But wanting still the glory of the spire." Near the cathedral is a statue of Brunelleschi ; on his knee is a plan of the cupola, and he is looking...
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