 ... heart of man, That strange and mystic scroll, That an army of phantoms vast and wan Beleaguer the human soul. Encamped beside Life's rushing stream, In Fancy's misty light, Gigantic shapes and shadows gleam Portentous through the night. Upon its midnight...  The Bowdoin Poets - Page 32by Edward Payson Weston - 1840 - 188 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1840 - 818 pages
...shadows gleam Portentous through the niglit. Upon its midnight battle-ground The spectral camp is seen, And with a sorrowful, deep sound, Flows the river...challenge breaks the air, But the rushing of life's wave. But when the solemn and deep church bell Entreats the soul to pray, The midnight phantoms feel the... | |
 | 1840 - 210 pages
...light, Gigantie shapes and shadows gleam Portentous through the night. Upon it* midnight battle-ground And with a sorrowful, deep sound, Flows the river of life between. No olller voiee or sound is there, In the army of llie grave — No other ehallenge breaks the air, But... | |
 | John Keese - 1842 - 336 pages
...through the night. Upon its midnight battle-ground The spectral camp is seen, THE BELEAGUERED CITY. 97 And, with a sorrowful, deep sound, Flows the River...shadows sweep away. Down the broad Vale of Tears afar The-spectral camp is fled ; Faith shineth as a morning star, Our ghastly fears are dead. I FELICIA... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1842 - 638 pages
...shadows gleam Portentous through the night. Upon its midnight battle-ground The spectral camp is seen,' And with a sorrowful, deep sound, Flows the River...rushing of Life's wave. And, when the solemn and deep chureh-bell Entreats the soul to pray, The midnight phantoms feel the spell, The shadows sweep away.... | |
 | 1842 - 818 pages
...when the solemn and deep church bell Entreats the soul to pray, The midnight phantoms feel the spell1, The shadows sweep away. Down the broad vale of tears afar The spectral host is fled ; Faith shinclh as a morning star. Our ghastly fears are dead." „ We feel sensibly that... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 434 pages
...spectral camp is scen, And with a sorrowful, deep sound, Flows the Rivcr of Life between. And, wlura the solemn and deep church-bell Entreats the soul to pray, The midnight phantoms feel the spell, Tho shadows sweep away. Down the broad Vale of Tears afar The spectral camp is fled ; Faith shineth... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 462 pages
...shadows gleam Portentous through the night. Upon its midnight battle-ground The spectral camp is seen, And, with a sorrowful, deep sound, Flows the River...of the grave ; No other challenge breaks the air, And, when the solemn and deep church-bell Entreats the soul to pray, The midnight phantoms feel the... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...shadows gleam Portentous through the night. ^ Upon its midnight battle-ground The spectral camp is seen, And, with a sorrowful, deep sound, Flows the river...rushing of life's wave. And when the solemn and deep church bell Entreats the soul to pray, The midnight phantoms feel the spell, The shadows sweep away.... | |
 | 1851 - 574 pages
...the sentiment intended to be conveyed by the verse: — " And when the solemn and deep church bell Entreats the soul to pray, The midnight phantoms feel the spell , The shadows sweep away.** We have faintly indicated, rather than distinctly explained the nature and character of these illustrations,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1852 - 588 pages
...shadows gleam Portentous through the night. Upon its midnight battle-ground The spectral camp ^ soon,' And with a sorrowful, deep sound, Flows the River...spell, The shadows sweep away. Down the broad Vale nf Tears afar The spectral camp is fled ; Faith shineth as a morning star, Our ghastly fears are dead.... | |
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