 WHEN the hours of Day are numbered, And the voices of the Night Wake the better soul, that slumbered, To a holy, calm delight; Ere the evening lamps are lighted, And, like phantoms grim and tall, Shadows from the fitful fire-light Dance upon the parlor...  Recitations at Whitnash rectory - Page 9by Whitnash rectory - 1866 - 15 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Gesner - 1983 - 764 pages
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 | Library of America, Edgar Allan Poe, Gary Richard Thompson - 1984 - 1572 pages
...on the part of Mr. LONGFELLOW from himself (Mr. Poe.) Here is one, however, which he has overlooked: lan Poe parlor wall.'''' In a poem called "The Sleeper," by EA POE, and which we first saw a great many years... | |
 | J. W. Wickwar - 1996 - 178 pages
...Henry Wadsworth Longfellow understood it when, in his "Footsteps of the Angds," he wrote — "When the hours of day are numbered, And the voices of the...better soul, that slumbered, To' a holy, calm delight ; Then the forms of the departed Knter at the open door; The beloved, and the true hearted, Come to... | |
 | Henry S. Olcott - 1996 - 492 pages
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 | J. M. Peebles - 1996 - 142 pages
...when at times a most mysterious providence permits them to manifest themselves to mortal eyes. . . . "Then the forms of the departed Enter at the open door The beloved ones, the true-hearted Come to visit us once more." HON. BENJAMIN F. WADE, of Ohio, ex-President of... | |
 | J. C. Street - 1996 - 650 pages
...numbered, And the voices of the night Wake the better soul that slumbered To a holy, calm delight. "Then the forms of the departed Enter at the open door, The beloved ones, the true-hearted Come to visit me once more." Let the Pilgrim of the Shadow look to his daily... | |
 | Andrew J. Davis - 1996 - 292 pages
...Upon the new faith of that family. The mother now can say, in the impressive language of Longfellow: "Then the forms of the departed Enter at the open door; The beloved ones, the true-hearted, Come to visit me once more. With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes the messenger... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 2000 - 678 pages
...1845, Poe cites what he thinks (less improbably than usual) was a borrowing in "Footsteps of Angels": And, like phantoms grim and tall, Shadows from the fitful fire-light Dance upon the parlor wall. 26 Campbell (Poems, p. 212) compared to this The Tempest, I, ii, 407: "The fringed curtains... | |
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