 | Tom Hood - 1877 - 348 páginas
...land." — Longfellow, Building of the Ship. Sometimes the two are united in one passage, as in — ' ' The darkness Falls from the wings of night, As a feather is wafted downward." — Longfellow, The Day is Done. The last line is a simile, but " the wings of night " is metaphorical.... | |
 | Charles Chaillé-Long - 1877 - 380 páginas
...long untrodden path that was to be mine, dispersing the sombre shadows that would come and go, for " A feeling of sadness comes o'er me That my soul cannot resist," as I think of home and friends, and the mysterious future that awaits me in Central Africa. The passage... | |
 | Blanche Willis Howard - 1877 - 296 páginas
...smiled at his eagerness. " It is very pretty, Gem. What is it ? " " A eagle's." " An eagle's, really ? ' As a feather is wafted downward from an eagle in his flight,' " she repeated dreamily, standing in the open doorway and glancing far up above the elm-tops, as if... | |
 | John Ross Macduff - 1878 - 330 páginas
...Brightened and stilled to its depths with the quiet of ' perfect love.'"* * Ministry of Song. VIII. "The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the...feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight. "And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 páginas
...waste the day, Noting at length the setting sun, They mend their pace as night comes on. GRANVILLE. The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings...feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight. LONGFELLOW. And the night shall be fill'd with music, And the cares that infest the day Shall fold... | |
 | A. M. Trotter - 1878 - 160 páginas
...may, Old Time is still a-flying; And that same flower that blooms to-day To-morrow shall be dying. 26. The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of night, As a feather is wafted downwards From an eagle in its flight. 27. I sat and watched her many a day, When her eyes grew dim... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1879 - 562 páginas
...at length in liooks recorded, They, like hoarded Household words, no more depart. THE DAY IS DONE. THE day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings...Night, As a feather is wafted downward From an eagle iu his llight. I see the lights of the village Gleam through the rain and the mist, And a feeling of... | |
 | 1879 - 422 páginas
...treesChanted softly It comes—" we all point the same way." MY FRIENDS AND I: MEMORIES. BY LW DODGE. The day Is done, and the darkness Falls 'from the wings of night, As a feather is wafted downward Prom an eagle in Its flight. —Longfellow. 1 have been standing with my face to the eastern window,... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1879 - 424 páginas
...Chanted softly it conies — " we all point the same way." IfT FRIENDS AND I: MEMORIES. BY LW DODGE. The day Is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of night. As a feather is wafteil downward From an eagle in ltd flight. — Longfellow. I have been standing with uiy face to... | |
 | John McGovern - 1880 - 762 páginas
...profit in " The Day is Done." At the second excerpt the poet has begged a companion to read to him : i The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings...feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight. 2. Not from the grand old masters, Not from the bards sublime Whose distant footsteps echo Through... | |
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The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward From an Eagle in his flight. I see the lights of the village Gleam through the rain and the mist, And a feeling of sadness comes o'er me, That my soul cannot... 
