 Our to-days and yesterdays Are the blocks with which we build. Truly shape and fashion these ; Leave no yawning gaps between ; Think not, because no man sees, Such things will remain unseen. In the elder days of Art, Builders wrought with greatest care,...  Poetical Works - Page 130by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1878 - 656 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Literature - 1850 - 144 pages
...filled ; Our to-days and yesterdays Are the blocks with which we build. Truly shape and fashion Ihese ; Leave no yawning gaps between ; Think not, because...as one vast plain, And one boundless reach of sky. LONGFELLOW. YOUNO thoughts have music in them : — love And happiness their theme. I HAVE seen change... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1850 - 476 pages
...unseen part ; For the Gods see everywhere. Let us do our work as well, Both the unseen and the seen ; Else our lives are incomplete, Standing in these walls...the hot clime Of Arab deserts brought, Within this class becomes the spy of Time, The minister of Thought. How manv wearv centuries has it been About... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...elder days of art, Builders wrought with greatest caro Bach minute and unseen part, For the gods are everywhere. Let us do our work as well, Both the unseen...as one vast plain, And one boundless reach of sky. LONGFELLOW. XXXIII. THE LABOURER. " IT is an encouraging circumstance that the respect for labour is... | |
 | Elisha Reynolds Potter - Education - 1852 - 406 pages
...Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and each unseen part — For the gods see every where. Let us do our work as well, Both the unseen and the...as one vast plain And one boundless reach of sky. LESSOiNS ON OBJECTS. The following letter from Professor Jaeger, whose lectures on Natural History... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1852 - 256 pages
...everywhere. Let us do our work as well, Make the house where Gods may dwell, Beautiful, entire, and eleaii. Else our lives are incomplete, Standing in these walls...as one vast plain, And one boundless reach of sky. OF THE DESERT IN AN HOUR-GLASS. A HANDFUL of red sand, from the hot clime Of Arab deserts brought,... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - Readers - 1852 - 250 pages
...and sure, With a firm and ample base, And ascending and secure, Shall to-morrow find its place. 6. Thus alone can we attain To those turrets, where the...as one vast plain, And one boundless reach of sky. UNCLE TIM'S METAPHYSICS 1. " That that is, is." Most people in happy ignorance indulge in this belief.... | |
 | Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...where. Let us do our work as well, Both the unseen and the seen ; 334 A GARDEN IN SPUING. Make the bouse where gods may dwell Beautiful, entire, and clean....as one vast plain, And one boundless reach of sky. LONGFELLOW. iarte in The finished garden to the view Its vistas opens, and its valleys green Snatched... | |
 | Gift books - 1854 - 342 pages
...existence, for thus alone can we fill out the measure of each day and make our life a perfect work. Build to-day, then, strong and sure, With a firm and...we attain To those turrets where the eye Sees the earth as one vast plain, And ("a' boundless reach of sky. " O, I WILL BUY THY FLOWERS." ET MABT 8.... | |
 | Cornish - 1855 - 538 pages
...forget the future, as far as this is concerned, and act for the present. What does Longfellow say ? " Build to-day, then, strong and sure, With a firm and...as one vast plain, And one boundless reach of sky." " Yes," said Evelyn, with a smile, " Not enjoyment and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way ; But... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 472 pages
...dwell, Beautiful, entire, and clean. Else our lives are incomplete, Standing in these walls of Time, Build to-day, then, strong and sure, With a firm and...as one vast plain, And one boundless reach of sky. CURFEW. SOLEMNLY, mournfully, Dealing its dole, The Curfew Bell Is beginning to toll. Cover the embers,... | |
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