 ... Beautiful, entire, and clean. Else our lives are incomplete, Standing in these walls of Time, Broken stairways, where the feet Stumble as they seek to climb. Build to-day, then, strong and sure, With a firm and ample base ; And ascending and secure...  Poems, selected from the best editions - Seite 173von Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1880Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1859 - 868 Seiten
...exactly of this charactar. This is how he moralizes over some Sand of the Desert in an Hour-glass: — " How many weary centuries has it been About those deserts blown ! How many stranpje vicissitudes has seen, How many histories known ! " Perhaps the camels of the Ishmaclite Trampled... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 476 Seiten
...and ample base ; And ascending and secure Shall to-morrow find its place. Thus alone can we attain To those turrets, where the eye Sees the world as...the hot clime Of Arab deserts brought, Within this class becomes the spy of Time, The minister of Thought. How manv wearv centuries has it been About... | |
 | 1850 - 144 Seiten
...and ample base ; And ascending and secure Shall to-morrow find its place. Thus alone can we attain To those turrets, where the eye Sees the world as one vast plain, And one boundless reach of sky. LONGFELLOW. YOUNO thoughts have music in them : — love And happiness their theme. I HAVE seen change... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 Seiten
...and ample base ; And ascending and secure Shall to-morrow find its place. Thus alone can we attain To those turrets, where the eye Sees the world as one vast plain, And one boundless reach of sky. LONGFELLOW. XXXIII. THE LABOURER. " IT is an encouraging circumstance that the respect for labour is... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1852 - 250 Seiten
...and ample base, And ascending and secure, Shall to-morrow find its place. 6. Thus alone can we attain To those turrets, where the eye Sees the world as one vast plain, And one boundless reach of sky. UNCLE TIM'S METAPHYSICS 1. " That that is, is." Most people in happy ignorance indulge in this belief.... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1852 - 256 Seiten
...and ample base ; And ascending and secure Shall to-morrow find its place. Thus alone can we attain To those turrets, where the eye Sees the world as one vast plain, And one boundless reach of sky. OF THE DESERT IN AN HOUR-GLASS. A HANDFUL of red sand, from the hot clime Of Arab deserts brought,... | |
 | Elisha Reynolds Potter - 1852 - 406 Seiten
...and ample base ; And ascending and secure Shall to-morrow find its place. Thus alone can we attain, To those turrets where the eye Sees the world as one vast plain And one boundless reach of sky. LESSOiNS ON OBJECTS. The following letter from Professor Jaeger, whose lectures on Natural History... | |
 | 1853 - 560 Seiten
...firm and ample base, And ascending and secure Shall to-morrow find its place. Thus alone can we attain To those turrets, where the eye Sees the world as one vast plain, And one boundless reach of sky. LONGFELLOW. iarte in The finished garden to the view Its vistas opens, and its valleys green Snatched... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 264 Seiten
...and ample base ; And ascending and secure Shall to-morrow find its place. Thus alone can we attain To those turrets, where the eye Sees the world as...deserts blown ! How many strange vicissitudes has seen, Perhaps the camels of the Ishmaelite Trampled and passed it o'er, When into Egypt from the patriarch's... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 568 Seiten
...and ample base ; And ascending and secure Shall to-morrow find its place. Thus alone can we attain To those turrets, where the eye Sees the world as...minister of Thought. How many weary centuries has it bees About those deserts blown ! How many strange vicissitudes has seen, How many histories known !... | |
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