 Our lives are rivers, gliding free To that unfathomed, boundless sea, The silent grave ! Thither all earthly pomp and boast Roll, to be swallowed up and lost In one dark wave. Thither the mighty torrents stray, Thither the brook pursues its way, And tinkling...  Notes for Latin Lyrics - Page 213by Rev.H. Musgrave Wilkins,M.A. - 1851Full view - About this book
 | Light - 1861 - 124 pages
...free To that unfathomed, boundless sea, The silent grave ! Thither all earthly pomp and boast Eoll, to be swallowed up and lost In one dark wave. Thither...poor man and the son of pride Lie calm and still. This world is but the rugged road "Which leads us to the bright abode Of peace above : So let us choose... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1861 - 912 pages
...free To that unfathomed, boundless sea, The silent grave ! Thither all earthly pomp and boast Roll, to be swallowed up and lost In one dark wave. Thither...tinkling rill. There all are equal. Side by side The poor mau and the son of pride Lie calm and still. I will not here invoke the throng Of orators and sons... | |
 | James Bell Forsyth - 1861 - 216 pages
.... kept in wretched order. The tombstones are all flat, and are mostly in a broken condition : — " Side by side, The poor man, and the son of pride Lie calm and still." — Longfellow. Our visit to Constantinople occurred, as I have before remarked, during the festival... | |
 | Popular poetry - 1862 - 246 pages
...free To that unfathomed, boundless sea, The silent grave ! Thither all earthly pomp and boast Boll, to be swallowed up and lost In one dark wave. Thither...poor man and the son of pride Lie calm and still. This world is but the rugged road Which leads us to the bright abode Of peace above ; So let us choose... | |
 | George Ticknor - 1863 - 520 pages
...free To that unfathomed, boundless sea, The silent grave ; Thither all earthly pomp and boast Roll, to be swallowed up and lost In one dark wave. Thither...Thither the brook pursues its way, And tinkling rill. • These poems, some of them too free for ff. 131-139, 176, 180, 1S7, 189, 221, 243, 245. the notions... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1864 - 712 pages
...free To that unfathomed, boundless sea, The silent grave ! Thither all earthly pomp and boast Roll, to be swallowed up and lost In one dark wave. Thither...There all are equal. Side by side The poor man and the sou of pride Lie calm and still. I will not here invoke the throng Of orators and sons of song, The... | |
 | George Ticknor - 1864 - 524 pages
...free To that unfathomed, boundless sea, The silent grave ; Thither all earthly pomp and boast Roll, to be swallowed up and lost In one dark wave. Thither the mighty torrents stray, Thither the brook pursuers its way, And tinkling rill. s These poems, some of them too free for ff. 131-139, 176, 180,... | |
 | George Ticknor - 1864 - 526 pages
...243, 245. the notions of his Church, are in the Can- A few are also in the " Cancionero de BurThere all are equal. Side by side The poor man and the son of pride Lie calm and still. The same tone is heard, though somewhat softened, when he touches on the days of his youth and of the... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1865 - 388 pages
...free To that unfathomed, boundless sea, The silent grave ! Thither all earthly pomp and boast Roll, to be swallowed up and lost In one dark wave. Thither...still. I will not here invoke the throng Of orators and sons of song, The deathless few ; Fiction entices and deceives, And, sprinkled o'er her fragrant leaves,... | |
 | Our life - 1865 - 234 pages
...boundless sea, The silent grave ! LIFE COMPARED TO A RIVER. Thither all earthly pomp and boast Roll, to be swallowed up and lost In one dark wave. Thither...poor man and the son of pride Lie calm and still. AND see the rivers how they run, Through woods and meads, in shade and sun ; Sometimes swift, sometimes... | |
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