| 1881 - 510 pages
...passed in days of yore, anyone who has an " historical conscience" may, by the light of other days, " summon from the shadowy past The forms that once have...footprints hidden by a brook But seen on either side." There are few places in the country around which cluster so many associations, and where so many tangible... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Literary Criticism - 1846 - 178 pages
...and, before I was aware, Lo ! the shadow of the belfry crossed the sunillumined square. MISCELLANEOUS. A GLEAM OF SUNSHINE. THIS is the place. Stand still,...from the shadowy Past The forms that once have been. i The Past and Present here unite Beneath Time's flowing tide, Like footprints hidden by a brook, But... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1848 - 170 pages
...and, before I was aware, Lo! the shadow of the belfry crossed the sunillumined square. MISCELLANEOUS. A GLEAM OF SUNSHINE. THIS is the place. Stand still,...Beneath Time's flowing tide, Like footprints hidden hy a brook, But seen on either side. Here runs the highway to the town ; There the green lane descends,... | |
| American poetry - 1849 - 274 pages
...How much of love and beauty in tFnnoted things do dwell." ROBERT TUCOLL. A GLEAM OF SUNSHINE. Tina Is the place. Stand still, my steed, Let me review...The forms that once have been. The past and present reunite, Beneath time's flowing tide, Like footprints hidden by a brook, But seen on either side. Here... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...minutes ; and, before I was aware, Lo ! the shadow of the belfry crossed the sun-illumined square. A GLEAM OF SUNSHINE. THIS is the place. Stand still,...Time's flowing tide, Like footprints hidden by a brook, Here runs the highway to the town ; There the green lane descends, Through which I walked to church... | |
| William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1851 - 1502 pages
...second is composed of three Iambics, formula xa X 3. The third and fourth are like the first and second. The Past and Present here unite Beneath Time's flowing...footprints hidden by a brook, But seen on either side — LONBHLLOW. § 720. RHOMBIC MEASURES. Ah me! Am I the swain That, late from sorrow Free, Did all... | |
| William Jerdan - 1852 - 430 pages
...him, in his last bold and desperate throw for the world's dominion ! CHAPTEK VI. "SHREDS AND PATCHES." This is the place, stand still my steed, Let me review...footprints hidden by a brook, But seen on either side. — LONGFELLOW. Lives of great men all remind us, We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave... | |
| William Jerdan - 1852 - 386 pages
...him, in his last bold and desperate throw for the world's dominion ! CHAPTER VI. "SHREDS AND PATCHES." This is the place, stand still my steed, Let me review...tide ; Like footprints hidden by a brook, But seen on cither side. — LONGFELLOW. Lives of great men all remind us, We can make our lives sublime, And,... | |
| 1852 - 528 pages
...shall take heart again." Equally apt is the same image applied to illustrate another subject : — " The past and present here unite Beneath Time's flowing...foot-prints hidden by a brook, But seen on either side." Of the old masters of poetry he exquisitely speaks, as those " Whose distant footsteps echo Through... | |
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