I HEARD the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through her marble halls ! I saw her sable skirts all fringed with light From the celestial walls ! I felt her presence, by its spell of might, Stoop o'er me from above ; The calm, majestic presence of... Shelburne Essays: 5th series - Seite 142von Paul Elmer More - 1908 - 261 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1839 - 174 Seiten
...' [toil juoyle 'Ayafifftvoviov inl Sofiov • vno yaQ aiyicov, vno TE EURIPIDES. HYMN TO THE NIGHT. I HEARD the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through her marble halls ! I saw her sable skirts all fringed with light From the celestial walls ! I felt her presence, by... | |
| William Evans Burton, Edgar Allan Poe - 1840 - 616 Seiten
...personified Night. Even in the first stanza this difficulty occurs — enfeebling all. The words — I heard the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through her marble halls — convey us to a palace tenanted by the sable-draperied, by the corporate Night. But the lines I... | |
| 1840 - 326 Seiten
...personified Night. Even in the first stanza this difflculty occurs — enfeebling all. The words — I heard the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through her marble lralls — convey us to a palace tenanted by the sable-druperied, by the corporate Night. But the lines... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1843 - 174 Seiten
...IKIV nolvitovuv /Sporolv, l&i ' jUOJU ftois liii Sopor ' utyitav, vno re EURIPIDES. HYMN TO THE NIGHT. I HEARD the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through her marble halls ! I saw her sable skirts all fringed with light From the celestial walls ! I felt her presence, by... | |
| 1849 - 608 Seiten
...steps on the threshold of the inn, whence a jocund peal was ringing, we paused, and suddenly — " We heard the trailing garments of the night Sweep through her marble halls ; We saw her sable skirts all fringed with light From her celestial walls ; We felt her presence, by... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1849 - 608 Seiten
...steps on the threshold of the inn, whence a jocund peal was ringing, we paused, and suddenly — " We heard the trailing garments of the night Sweep through her marble halls ; We saw lier sable skirts all fringed with light From her celestial walls ; We felt her presence,... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 462 Seiten
...the Night, That can soothe thee, or affright, — Be these henceforth thy theme." HYMN TO THE NIGHT. I HEARD the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through her marble halls ! I saw her sable skirts all fringed with light From the celestial walls ! • I felt her presence,... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 500 Seiten
...Tioivnoriay l'9t' fioie pole xu inl Sopor' iino yvtQ aiyitov, vno te EI'RIPIDIS. HYMN TO THE NIGHT. I HEARD the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through her marble halls ! I saw her sable skirts all fringed with light From the celestial walls ! I felt her presence, by... | |
| Thomas Powell - 1850 - 382 Seiten
...there is an instance of bad taste in the selection of metaphors, which rarely happens to our author. " I heard the trailing garments of the night Sweep through her marble halls ; I saw her sable skirts all fringed with light From the celestial walls." He redeems this artificial... | |
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