 | Periodicals - 1895 - 628 pages
...reproduced by St. Gaudens on the bas relief of the novelist, already referred to : TO WILL H. LOW. YOUTH now flees on feathered foot, Faint and fainter...winding stream. Through the willows, flits a dream j Flits, but shows a smiling face, Flees, but with so quaint a grace None can choose to stay at home,... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1896 - 628 pages
...• , From 'Poems and Ballads.' By permission of the authorized publishers, Charles Scribner's Sons i YOUTH now flees on feathered foot, Faint and fainter...a smiling face. Flees, but with so quaint a grace. Nor can choose to stay at home, — All must follow, all must roam. This is unborn beauty : she Now... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - Bookbinding - 1896 - 406 pages
...eternal mountains beckon, and awakes Yearning for that far home that might have been. XI TO WILL. H. LOW YOUTH now flees on feathered foot, Faint and fainter...a smiling face, Flees, but with so quaint a grace, Nor can choose to stay at home, All must follow, all must roam. This is unborn beauty: she Now in air... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - English literature - 1896 - 690 pages
...eternal mountains beckon, and awakes Yearning for that far home that might have been. XI TO WILL H. LOW YOUTH now flees on feathered foot, Faint and fainter...a smiling face, Flees, but with so quaint a grace, Nor can choose to stay at home, All must follow, all must roam. This is unborn beauty: she Now in air... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1896 - 694 pages
...eternal mountains beckon, and awakes Yearning for that far home that might have been. XI TO WILL H. LOW YOUTH now flees on feathered foot, Faint and fainter...a smiling face, Flees, but with so quaint a grace, Nor can choose to stay at home, All must follow, all must roam. This is unborn beauty; she Now in air... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - Bookbinding - 1896 - 402 pages
...Yearning for that far home that might have been. XI TO WILL. H. LOW now flees on feathered foot, X Faint and fainter sounds the flute, Rarer songs of...a smiling face, Flees, but with so quaint a grace, Nor can choose to stay at home, All must follow, all must roam. This is unborn beauty: she Now in air... | |
 | Leslie Cope Cornford - 1899 - 216 pages
...which is the common heritage of childhood, remained his possession to the end. With the most of us— Youth now flees on feathered foot, Faint and fainter...sounds the flute, Rarer songs of gods ; . . .' and the years, stealing on with muffled footsteps and blinding fingers, still conspire to veil from us... | |
 | Leslie Cope Cornford - 1899 - 218 pages
...which is the common heritage of childhood, remained his possession to the end. With the most of us — Youth now flees on feathered foot, Faint and fainter sounds the flute, Rarer songs of gods ; . . .l and the years, stealing on with muffled footsteps and blinding fingers, still conspire to... | |
 | William Henry Van Benschoten - 1907 - 942 pages
...Shall break on hill and plain, And put all stars and candles out Ere we be young again." " Fainter and fainter sounds the flute, Rarer songs of gods...winding stream, Through the willows, flits a dream." 278. II. MARY ELIZABETH VB d. May 29, 1883, at Knoxville, Tenn., unmarried. ". . . with us shall the... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1908 - 138 pages
...eternal mountains beckon, and awakes Yearning for that far home that might have been. TO WILL. H. LOW YOUTH now flees on feathered foot, Faint and fainter...a smiling face, Flees, but with so quaint a grace, Nor can choose to stay at home, All must follow, all must roam. This is unborn beauty : she Now in... | |
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YOUTH now flees on feathered foot, Faint and fainter sounds the flute, Rarer songs of gods; and still Somewhere on the sunny hill, Or along the winding stream, Through the willows, flits a dream... 
