That, crowded with angels unnumbered, By Jacob was seen, as he slumbered Alone in the desert at night? The Angels of Wind and of Fire Chaunt only one hymn, and expire With the song's irresistible stress; Expire in their rapture and wonder, As harp-strings... The English Woman's Journal - Pagina 165Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
| 1858 - 456 pagine
...the present volume — " Saiidalphon," the angel of prayer : " The angels of wind and of fire Chant only one hymn and expire With the song's irresistible stress ; Expire in their rapture and wonder, As harp-strings are broken asunder By music they throb to express. But serene in the rapturous throng,... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1859 - 136 pagine
...Celestial he waits, With his feet on the ladder of light, That, crowded with angels unnumbered, By Jacoh was seen, as he slumbered Alone in the desert at night...irresistible stress ; Expire in their rapture and wonder, As harp-strings are broken asunder By music they throb to express. But serene in the rapturous throng,... | |
| William Bentley Fowle - 1859 - 356 pagine
...*A dangerous rock on the coast of Essex county, Massachusetts. The Angels of Wind and of Fire, Chant only one hymn, and expire With the song's irresistible...stress, — Expire in their rapture and wonder, As harp-strings are broken asunder, By the music they throb to express. But serene in the rapturous throng,... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1859 - 136 pagine
...Jacob was seen, as he slumbered Alone iji the desert at night? The Angels of Wind and of Fire (.'haunt only one hymn, and expire With the song's irresistible stress ; Expire in their rapture and wonder, As harp-strings are broken asunder By music they throb to express. But serene in the rapturous throng,... | |
| John Jones Thomas - 1860 - 258 pagine
...or, perhaps, undreamt of in their vague philosophy. ' ' The monsters of earth,' and of fire, ' Chant only one hymn, and expire ' With the song's irresistible...stress : ' Expire in their rapture and •wonder, ' As harp-strings are broken asunder ' By music they throb to express." This enamoured mystic school of... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1861 - 912 pagine
...was sep.n, as he slumbered Alone in the desert at night ? The Angels of the Wind and of Fire Chant only one hymn, and expire With the song's irresistible stress ; Expire in their rapture and wonder, As harp-strings are broken asunder By music they throb to express. But serene in the rapturous throng,... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1862 - 548 pagine
...Jacob was seen, as he slumbered Alone in the desert at night ? The Angels of Wind and of Fire Chant only one hymn, and expire With the song's irresistible stress; Expire in their rapture and wonder, As harp-strings are broken asunder, By music they throb to express. But serene in the rapturous throng,... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1863 - 438 pagine
...ballads That ever were sung or said ; For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead. SANDALPHON. HAVE you read in the Talmud of old, In the Legends...irresistible stress ; Expire in their rapture and wonder, As harp-strings are broken asunder But serene in the rapturous throng, Unmoved by the rush of the song,... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1864 - 464 pagine
...the Rabbins have told Of the limitless realms of the air, Have you read it, — the marvellous storj Of Sandalphon, the Angel of Glory, Sandalphon, the...irresistible stress Expire in their rapture and wonder ' -larp-strings are broken asunder' 'nusic they throb to express But serene in the rapturous throng,... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1864 - 712 pagine
...Sandalphon, the Angel of Prayer ? How, erect, at the outermost gates Of the City Celestial he waits, With nis feet on the ladder of light, That, crowded with angels...irresistible stress ; Expire in their rapture and wonder, As harp-strings are broken asunder By music they throb to express. But serene in the rapturous throng,... | |
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