 The shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device, Excelsior ! His brow was sad ; his eye beneath Flashed like a falchion from its sheath, And like a silver...  Poetical Works - Page 90by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1904Full view - About this book
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1852 - 588 pages
...banner with the strange device, Excelsior ! His brow was sad ; hia eye beneath Flash'd like a faulchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The...Excelsior ! In happy homes he saw the light Of household (ires gleam warm and bright: Above, the spectral glaciers shone, And from his lips escaped a groan,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 pages
...brow was sad ; his eye beneath Flashed like a falehion from its sheath ; And like a silver elarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior...household fires gleam warm and bright : Above, the speetral glaciers shone ; And from his lips escaped a groan, Excelsior ! " Try not the Pass ! " the... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1852 - 610 pages
...with this strange device — Excelsior ! " His brow was sad ; his eye beneath Flashed like a fuulchion Vp M Ƀ 7eza N X 㚴 s ( / liaht Of household fires gleam warm and bright ; Above, the spectral glaciers shone, And from his lips... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853 - 496 pages
...banner with the strange device Excelsior ! His brow was sad ; his eye beneath, Flashed like a faulchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The...shone, And from his lips escaped a groan, Excelsior ! cc Try not the Pass ! " the old man said ; "Dark lowers the tempest overhead, The roaring torrent... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853 - 504 pages
...banner with the strange device Excelsior ! His brow was sad ; his eye beneath, Flashed like a faulchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The...the light Of household fires gleam warm and bright ; Ahove, the spectral glaciers shone, And from his lips escaped a groan, Excelsior ! " Try not the... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 588 pages
...that fly, Like chaff from the threshing-floor." " His brow was sad ; his eye beneath Flash'd like the falchion from its sheath ; And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue." " Throujfh the cloted blinds, the golden inn I'our'd in a dusty beam, Like the celestial ladder seen... | |
 | Daniel Wise - 1853 - 254 pages
...steadily at his post. Like the hero of a modern poet, if " His brow was sad, his eye beneath Flash'd like a falchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that well-known tongue, Excelsior !" We have already seen him escape the plots and schemes of his adversaries... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1854 - 504 pages
...banner with the strange device Excelsior ! His brow was sad ; his eye beneath, Flashed like a faulchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The...Excelsior ! " Try not the Pass ! " the old man said r " Dark lowers the tempest overhead, The roaring torrent is deep and wide ! " And loud that clarion... | |
 | John Cumming - 1854 - 300 pages
...Alpine village passed A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device — ' Excelsior ! ' " ' Try not the pass,' the old man said,...Dark lowers the tempest overhead, — The roaring toi-rent is deep and wide ; ' And loud that clarion voice replied — ' Excelsior ! ' " ' 0 stay,'... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1854 - 580 pages
...banner, with the stränge device, Excelsior! His brow was sad; his eye beneath Flashed like a faulchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongiie, Exeelsior! In happy homes he saw the light Of household fires gleam warm and bright; Above,... | |
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