 | 1871 - 314 pages
...What the birds and the winds are singing In your sunny atmosphere. For what are all our contrivings, And the wisdom of our books, When compared with your...ever were sung or said ; For ye are living poems, THE BRIDGE OF CLOUD. BURN, O evening hearth, and waken Pleasant visions, as of old ! Though the house... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1872 - 730 pages
...What the birds and the winds are singing In your sunny atmosphere. For what are all our contrivings, And the wisdom of our books, When compared with your...For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead. MY LOST YOUTH. OFTEN I think of the beautiful town That is seated by the sea ; Often in thought go... | |
 | John Charles Curtis - Readers - 1872 - 168 pages
...the trunks below. Come to me, O ye children ! For what are all our contrivings, And the wisdom of bur books, When compared with your caresses, And the gladness...For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead. TRUST IN GOD AND DO THE RIGHT.A T . Macleod. COURAGE, brother, do not stumble, Though thy path be dark... | |
 | Mary Elizabeth Shipley - 1873 - 408 pages
...What the birds and the winds are singing In your sunny atmosphere. For what are all our contrivings, And the wisdom of our books, When compared with your...For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead. Save me, O God, for the waters are come in unto my soul. I sink in deep mire where there is nostandinjj... | |
 | Levi Belcher - 1873 - 158 pages
...ear What the birds and winds are singing In your sunny atmosphere. For what are all our coutrivings, And the wisdom of our books, When compared with your...said ; For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead.—Longfellow. 'QEHOLD the child among his new-born blisses, X) A six years' darling of a pigmy... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1873 - 360 pages
...atmosphere. For what are all our contrivings, And the wisdom of our books, When compared with your caresses, Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were...For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead. SANDALPHON HAVE you read in the Talmud of old, In the Legends the Rabbins have told Of the limitless... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1874 - 384 pages
...What the birds and the winds are singing In your sunny atmosphere. For what are all our contrivings, And the wisdom of our books, When compared with your caresses, And the gladness of your looks ? 224 225 Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said ; For ye are living poems,... | |
 | Alfred Porter Putnam - Hymn writers - 1875 - 590 pages
...What the birds and the winds are singing In your sunny atmosphere. For what are all our contrivings, And the- wisdom of our books, When compared with your...the ballads That ever were sung or said ; For ye are the living poems, And all the rest are dead. A DAY OF SUNSHINE. GIFT of God ! O perfect day ! Whereon... | |
 | Alfred Porter Putnam - Hymns, English - 1875 - 592 pages
...the birds and the winds are singing OO In your sunny atmosphere. For what are all our contrivings, And the wisdom of our books, When compared with your...ballads That ever were sung or said ; « • For ye are the living poems, And all the rest are dead. A DAY OF SUNSHINE. GIFT of God ! O perfect day ! Through... | |
 | Beatrice May Butt - 1876 - 156 pages
...children ! For I hear you at your play, And the questions that perplexed m«, Have vanished quite away. Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said ; For ye are the living poems, And all the rest are dead." LONGFELLOW. EDINBURGH: E. GBANT & SON, PBINCES STREET.... | |
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Come to me, O ye children ! And whisper in my ear What the birds and the winds are singing In your sunny atmosphere. For what are all our contrivings, And the wisdom of our books, When compared with your caresses, And the gladness of your looks ? Ye are... 
