| 1850 - 642 pàgines
...readers of Longfellow will read with a ready assent of " the spirit and the understanding :" THE SINGERS. God sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness...hearts of men, And bring them back to heaven again. The first, a youth, with soul of fire, Held in his hand a golden lyre ; Through graves he wandered,... | |
| 1883 - 798 pàgines
...xii. 1 — 7.) DIES SOLEMNIS. ttYMN-WR.ITERS AND THEIR By the Author of " Thornley Grange," 'fc. " God sent His singers upon earth With songs of sadness...hearts of men, And bring them back to heaven again." LONGFELLOW. I. WE have great cause to be thankful to a beneficent Creator for the gift which He hath... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 476 pàgines
...and of Jarls ! Of the days of Eld Preserve the freedom only. Not the deeds of blood ! THE SINGERS. GOD sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness...hearts of men, And bring them back to heaven again. The first, a youth, with soul of fire, Held in his hand a golden lyre ; Through groves he wandered,... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pàgines
...and of Jarls ! Of the days of eld Preserve the freedom only, Not the deeds of blood ! THE SINGERS. GOD sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness...hearts of men, And bring them back to heaven again. The first, a youth, with soul of fire, Held in his hand a golden lyre ; Through groves he wandered,... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1852 - 256 pàgines
...vext! How must thy listening spirit now rejoice To be interpreted by such a voice ! THE SINGERS. • GOD sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness...hearts of men, And bring them back to heaven again. The first a youth, with soul of fire, Held in his hand a golden lyre ; Through groves he wandered,... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853 - 470 pàgines
...vext ! How must thy listening spirit now rejoice To be interpreted by such a voice ! 25 THE SINGERS. GOD sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness...hearts of men, And bring them back to heaven again. The first, a youth, with soul of fire, Held in his hand a golden lyre ; Through groves he wandered,... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 264 pàgines
...Vikings and of Jarls ! Of the days of eld Preserve the freedom only, Not the deeds of blood! THE SINGERS. GOD sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness...hearts of men. And bring them back to heaven again. The first, a youth, with soul of fire, Held in his hand a golden lyre ; Through groves he wandered,... | |
| 1855 - 172 pàgines
...STUDY. TOOLS AND WORKS OF LEAKNED BUSINESS. Music is a noble work, and lifts the sonl towards heaven. " God sent his singers upon earth, With songs of sadness...hearts of men, And bring them back to heaven again." HARP, that which is touched; a stringed instrument of music. Did David play on the harp ? PLPE, that... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 568 pàgines
...critic vext ! How must thy listening spirit now rejoice To be interpreted by such a voice ! THE SINGERS. GOD sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness...and of mirth, That they might touch the hearts of mon And bring them back to heaven again. Through groves he wandered, and by streams, Playing the music... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 472 pàgines
...and of Jarls ! Of the days of Eld Preserve the freedom only, Not the deeds of blood ! THE SINGERS. GOD sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirtb, That they might touch the hearts of men, And bring them back to heaven again. The first, a youth,... | |
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