Our lives are rivers, gliding free To that unfathomed, boundless sea, The silent grave ! Thither all earthly pomp and boast Roll, to be swallowed up and lost In one dark wave. Thither the mighty torrents stray, Thither the brook pursues its way, And tinkling... The Saturday Magazine - Página 1821844Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1872 - 730 páginas
...pass away. Our lives are rivers, gliding free To that unfathomed, boundless sea, The silent grave ! Thither all earthly pomp and boast Roll, to be swallowed...poor man and the son of pride Lie calm and still. I will not here invoice the throng Of orators and sons of song, The deathless few ; Fiction entices... | |
| Literary bouquet - 1872 - 180 páginas
...OUR LIVES. OUR lives are rivers, gliding free To that unfathomed, boundless sea, The silent grave ! . Thither all earthly pomp and boast Roll, to be swallowed...poor man and the son of pride Lie calm and still. Longfellow. THE LIGHT OF STARS. THE night is come, but not too soon; And sinking silently, All silently,... | |
| George Ticknor - 1872 - 608 páginas
...free To that unfathomed, boundless sea, The silent grave ; Thither all earthly pomp and boast Boll, to be swallowed up and lost In one dark wave. Thither...tinkling rill. •There all are equal. Side by side * 368 The poor man and the son of pride Lie calm and still. The same tone is heard, though somewhat... | |
| 1872 - 710 páginas
...LIFE, Way of. Our lives arc rivers, gliding free To that unfathomcd, boundless sea, The silent grave ! Foster Manrique. 2151. LKlHT, A Bhuung. ЕР1ТАРП OF A VANISHED ST VIL So said, he raised, according to... | |
| 1884 - 794 páginas
...green. Bacon. Our lives are rivers, gliding free To that unfathomed, boundless sea, The silent grave ! Thither all earthly pomp and boast Roll, to be swallowed up and lost In one dark wave. Longfellow. Known mischiefs have their cure, but doubts have none; And better is despair than fruitless... | |
| Charles C. Jones - 1873 - 622 páginas
...thoughts. " Our lives are rivers gliding free To that unfathomed, boundless sea— The silent grave. Thither all earthly pomp and boast Roll, to be swallowed...poor man and the son of pride Lie calm and still." We conclude this account of the more prominent traces of early constructive skill by an allusion to... | |
| Charles Colcock Jones - 1873 - 622 páginas
...thoughts. " Our lives are rivers gliding free To that unfathomed, boundless sea — The silent grave. Thither all earthly pomp and boast Roll, to be swallowed...poor man and the son of pride Lie calm and still." We conclude this account of the more prominent traces of early constructive skill by an allusion to... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1873 - 632 páginas
...pass away. Our lives are rivers, gliding free To that unfathomed, boundless sea, The silent grave ! Thither all earthly pomp and boast Roll, to be swallowed...one dark wave. Thither the mighty torrents stray, Thithur the brook pursues its way, And tinkling rill. There all are equal ; side by side The poor man... | |
| John Conroy Hutcheson - 1873 - 302 páginas
...Manrigue. " ' Our lives are rivers, gliding free, To that unfathom'd boundless sea, The silent grave ! Thither all earthly pomp and boast Roll, to be swallowed up and lost In one dark wave.' " "I prefer," said I, "Tennyson's Brook. Our laureate's description of a moving river is not so sombre... | |
| Thomas Serel - 1875 - 184 páginas
...oppressor and the oppressed ; the educated and the illiterate; the saint and the reprobate." Here " Side by side, The poor man and the son of pride, Lie calm and still!" Church-yards are of very ancient origin, and some writers trace the custom of using them as places... | |
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