 | 1876 - 938 pages
...remains for us to do or dare; • * * * * For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress. And as the evening twilight fades...The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day." It seems to us that in the sonnets also Longfellow is at his best. Should he never publish another poem... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1875 - 170 pages
...But other something, would we but begin ; Tor age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades...away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. BIRDS OF PASSAGE. FLIGHT THK FOURTH. BIRDS OF PASSAGE. FLIGHT THE FOURTH. CHARLES SUMNER. GARLANDS... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1875 - 170 pages
...Inn, But other something, would we but begin; For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades...away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. BIRDS OF PASSAGE. FLIGHT THE FOURTH. CHARLES SUMNER. GARLANDS upon his grave, And flowers upon his... | |
 | 1875 - 944 pages
...But other something, would wo but begin ; For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades...away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. Шпг'а (fetj C|jnir. THE Easy Chair has received a letter from Mr. Tibbins, which that gentleman... | |
 | Monday Club - 1875 - 414 pages
...scale of night slowly rose in the eastern heavens, while the scale of day declined in the west, — " And, as the evening twilight fades away, The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day." Like that peaceful, beauteous evening hour may be the season of life's decline, when irradiated, with... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1877 - 400 pages
...Inn, But other something, would we but begin ; For age is opportumty no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades...away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. BIRDS OF PASSAGE. FLIGHT THE FOURTH. CHARLES SUMNER. GAELANDS upon his grave, And flowers upon his... | |
 | 1877 - 1014 pages
...the same poet's latest inspired truth, that — "Age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress ; And as the evening twilight fades...away The sky is filled with stars invisible by day." Mr. Barclay was deeply overcome, and after a pause said : "It is almost two-thirds of a century, since,... | |
 | James Thomas Fields - 1877 - 322 pages
...poem, intimating with raised forefinger that they had all come to listen. When the last two lines — " And as the evening twilight fades away, The sky is filled with stars invisible by day " — fell from the poet's lips, and he was folding up the manuscript of " Morituri Salutamus," a holy... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...But other something, would we but begin ; For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though 1 ,0 fill'd with stars, invisible by day. 2599. OLD AGE. Signs of MY days pass pleasantly away, My nights... | |
 | James Thomas Fields - 1877 - 322 pages
...intimating with raised forefinger that they had all come to listen. When the last two lines — "And as'the evening twilight fades away, The sky is filled with stars invisible by day "— fell from the poet's lips, and he was folding up the manuscript of " Morituri Salutamus," a holy... | |
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For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. 
