 | Alfred Porter Putnam - 1875 - 590 pages
...spirit drank repose ; The fountain of perpetual peace flows there, — From those deep cisterns flows. O holy Night ! from thee I learn to bear What man has...finger on the lips of Care, And they complain no more. Peace ! Peace ! Orestes-like I breathe this prayer I Descend with broad-winged flight, The welcome,... | |
 | Alfred Porter Putnam - 1875 - 592 pages
...spirit drank repose ; The fountain of perpetual peace flows there, — From those deep cisterns flows. O holy Night ! from thee I learn to bear What man has...finger on the lips of Care, And they complain no more. Peace! Peace! Orestes-like I breathe this prayer! Descend with broad-winged flight, The welcome, the... | |
 | 1879 - 624 pages
...like this, And thou shalt know ere long, Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong. 0 holy Night ! from thee I learn to bear What man has borne before : Thou lay»t thy finger on the lips of Care, And they complain no more. 0 suffering, lad humanity ! 0 ye... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1876 - 599 pages
...spirit drank repose ; The fountain of perpetual peace flows there, — From those deep cisterns flows. 0 holy Night ! from thee I learn to bear What man has...finger on the lips of Care, And they complain no more. Peace ! Peace ! Orestes-like I breathe this prayer ! Descend with broad-winged flight, The welcome,... | |
 | Charles James Dunphie - 1876 - 390 pages
...following : — " Oh, holy Sleep, from thee I leam to bear What men have borne before ; Thou layst thy finger on the lips of care And they complain no more I " Against this placid, comfortable meditation may be set Young's passionate complaint, that Sleep,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1877 - 634 pages
...spirit drank repose ; The fountain of perpetual peace flows there, — From those deep cisterns flows. 0 holy Night ! from thee I learn to bear What man has...finger on the lips of Care, And they complain no more. Peace ! Peace ! Orestes-like I breathe this prayer ; Descend with broad -winged flight, The welcome,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1877 - 400 pages
...spirit drank repose ; The fountain of perpetual peace flows there, — From those deep cisterns flows. O holy Night ! from thee I learn to bear What man has borne before I Thou layest thy finger on the lips of Care, And they complain no more. Peace ! Peace I Orestes-like... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth [extracts] Longfellow - 1878 - 306 pages
...prayer ! Like one in prayer I stood. Voices of the Night— Prelude. September 26. September 27. 211 O, holy Night ! from thee I learn to bear What man has...finger on the lips of Care, And they complain no more. Hymn to the Night. And on her cheek Blushes the richness of an autumn sky, With ever shifting beauty.... | |
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O holy Night ! from thee I learn to bear What man has borne before ! Thou layest thy finger on the lips of Care, And they complain no more. 
