 | Almanacs, English - 1868 - 100 pages
...Tinge , And the wisdom of our books, When compared with your caresses And the gladness of your looks ? Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were...For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead. WGS l'íS N PUBLIC : ) } .J;.-lt ». «V» IN» l j ч- .\ •. • ....N- j LONDON PRIDE AND GOLDEN... | |
 | 1876 - 396 pages
...contrivings, And the wisdom of our books, When compared with your caresses, And the gladness of your looks ? Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were...For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead. Now is not this a very beautiful song ? Many children little know how deeply they are loved by their... | |
 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 pages
...contrivings, And the wisdom of our books, When compared with your caresses, And the gladness of your looks ? Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were...For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead. LONGFELLOW. MORAL BEAUTY. 'Tls not alone in the flush of morn, In the cowslip-bell, or the blossom... | |
 | William Bentley Fowle - Readers - 1859 - 356 pages
...on the " Eock of Avery's Fall ! " * SANDALPHON — THE ANGEL OF PKAYER. HW LONGFELLOW. HAVE you read the Talmud of old, In the legends the Rabbins have...the Angel of Glory, Sandalphon, the Angel of Prayer ? How, erect, at the outermost gates Of the City Celestial he waits, With his feet on the ladder of... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Massachusetts - 1859 - 136 pages
...contrivings, And the wisdom of our books, When compared with your caresses, And the gladness of your looks ? Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were...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... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1859 - 432 pages
...contrivings, And the wisdom of our books, When compared with your caresses, And the gladness of your looks ? " Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were...For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead." " Children may teach us one blessed, one enviable art — the art of being easily happy. Kind nature... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Massachusetts - 1859 - 136 pages
...contrivings, And the wisdom of our books, When compared with jour caresses, And the gladness of your looks ? Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were...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... | |
 | Music - 1859 - 440 pages
...And the wisdom of our books, When compared with your caresses, And the gladness of your looks ? Yc are better than all the ballads That ever were sung...For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead. AMERICAN BBACTT. — The Newport correspondent of the Boston Courier, whose initials " GSH" vouch that... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Gilbert - American poetry - 1860 - 448 pages
...contrivings, And the wisdom of our books, When compared with your caresses, And the gladness of your looks? Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were...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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1861 - 912 pages
...contrivings, And the wisdom of our books, When compared with your caresses, And the gladness of your looks ? Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were...read it, — the marvellous story Of Sandalphon, the Augel of Glory, Sandalphon, the Angel of Prayer? How, erect, at the outermost gates Of the City Celestial... | |
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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... 
