 We sat and talked until the night, Descending, filled the little room; Our faces faded from the sight, Our voices only broke the gloom. We spake of many a vanished scene, Of what we once had thought and said, Of what had been, and might have been, And...  Littell's Living Age - Page 3041849Full view - About this book
 | 1848 - 808 pages
...the sight, Our voices only broke the gloom. We spake of many a vanished scene, Of what we once hnd thought and said, Of what had been, and might have been, And who was changed, and who was dead. An ' all that fills the hearts of friends, When first they feel, with secret pain, Thfir uves thenceforth... | |
 | William Howitt - 1848 - 432 pages
...sight, Our voices only brokn the gloom. We spoke of many a vanished scene, Ol what we once had though' and said, Of what had been, and might have been, And who were changed, and who were dead. And all that fills the hearts of friends, When first they feel with... | |
 | William Henry Channing - Christian sociology - 1850 - 706 pages
...room; Our faces faded from the sight, . \ Our voices only broke the gloom. We spake of many a vanished scene. Of what we once had thought and said, Of what...secret pain, Their lives henceforth have separate ende, And never can be one again. The first slight swerving of the heart, Thai words are powerless... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1850 - 476 pages
...room ; Our faces faded from the sight, Our voices only broke the gloom. We spake of many a vanished scene, Of what we once had thought and said, Of what...When first they feel, with secret pain, Their lives thenceforth have separate ends, And never can be on£ again ; The first slight swerving of the heart,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...room ; Our faces faded from the sight, Our voices only broke the gloom. We spake of many a vanished scene, Of what we once had thought and said, Of what...When first they feel, with secret pain, Their lives thenceforth have separate ends, And never can be one again ; The first slight swerving of the heart,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1852 - 256 pages
...room ; Our faces faded from the sight, Our voices only broke the gloom. We spake of many a vanished scene, Of what we once had thought and said, Of what...When first they feel, with secret pain, Their lives thenceforth have separate ends, And never can be one again ; The first slight swerving of the heart,... | |
 | Samuel Longfellow - Literary Criticism - 1853 - 228 pages
...room ; Our faces faded from the sight, Our voices only broke the gloom. We spake of many a vanished scene, Of what we once had thought and said, Of what...When first they feel, with secret pain, Their lives thenceforth have separate ends, And never can be one again ; The first slight swerving of the heart,... | |
 | Samuel Longfellow - Literary Criticism - 1853 - 234 pages
...room ; Our faces faded from the sight, Our voices only broke the gloom. We spake of many a vanished scene, Of what we once had thought and said, Of what...When first they feel, with secret pain, Their lives thenceforth have separate ends, And never can be one again ; The first slight swerving of the heart,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853 - 470 pages
...room ; Our faces faded from the sight, Our voices only broke the gloom. We spake of many a vanished scene, Of what we once had thought and said, Of what...When first they feel, with secret pain, Their lives thenceforth have separate ends, And never can be one again ; The first slight swerving of the heart,... | |
 | Book - 1854 - 496 pages
...room ; Our faces faded from the sight, Our voices only broke the gloom. We spake of many a vanish'd scene, Of what we once had thought and said, Of what...When first they feel, with secret pain, Their lives thenceforth have separate ends, And never can be one again ; The first slight swerving of the heart,... | |
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