 And earnest thoughts within me rise, When I behold afar, Suspended in the evening skies The shield of that red star. 0 star of strength! I see thee stand And smile upon my pain; Thou beckonest with thy mailed hand, And I am strong again.  American Monthly Knickerbocker - Page 751839Full view - About this book
 | 1871 - 314 pages
...dreams ? 0 no ! from that blue tent above, A hero's armor gleams. And earnest thoughts within me rise, When I behold afar, Suspended in the evening skies, The .shield of that red star. 0 star of strength ! I see thee stand And smile upon my pain ; Thou beckonest with thy mailed hand, And I am strong again.... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1871 - 656 pages
...afar, Suspended in the evening skies, The shield of that red star. 0 star of strength ! I see thec stand And smile upon my pain ; Thou beckonest with thy mailed hand, And I am strong again. Within my breast there is no light, But the cold light of stars ; I give the first watch of the night... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1872 - 730 pages
...earnest thoughts within me rise, When I behold afar, Suspended in the evening skies, 0 star of strength ! I see thee stand And smile upon my pain ; Thou beckonest with thy mailed hand, And I am strong again. Within my breast there is no light, But the cold light of stars ; 1 give the first watch of the night... | |
 | Literary bouquet - 1872 - 180 pages
...? Oh, no ! from that blue tent above, A hero's armour gleams. And earnest thoughts within me rise, When I behold afar, Suspended in the evening skies, The shield of that red star. 0 star of strength ! I see thee stand And smile upon my pain ; Thou beckonest with thy mailed hand, And I am strong again.... | |
 | Henry Major - 1873 - 588 pages
...would find them all again In the fields of light above." 9. " And earnest thoughts within me rise, When I behold afar, Suspended in the evening skies, The shield of that red star." 10. " Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine, When he... | |
 | Henry Major - 1873 - 90 pages
...would find them all again In the fields of light above." 9. " And earnest thoughts within me rise, When I behold afar, Suspended in the evening skies, The shield of that red star." When he called the flowers so blue and golden, Stars, that in earth's firmament do shine." 11. " Bright... | |
 | Caroline Thompson - 1874 - 366 pages
...Source; both are endless—eternal, and faith is the life of both. CHAPTER XXI. Ob, star of strength ! I see thee stand, And smile upon my pain; Thou beckonest with thy mailed hand. And I am strong again. The star of my unconqaered will, He rises in my breast, Serene, and resolute and still, And calm and... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 pages
...dreams ? Oh, no ! from that blue tent above, A hero's armor gleams. And earnest thoughts within me rise, When I behold afar, Suspended in the evening skies, The shield of that red star. LONGFELLOW : Light of Stars. Lo ! in the painted oriel of the West, Whose panes the sunken sun incarnadines,... | |
 | Henry Major - 1875 - 272 pages
...she would find them all again In the fields of light above." " And earnest thoughts within me rise, When I behold afar. Suspended in the evening skies The shield of that red star." " Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine, When he called... | |
 | Beatrice Alsager Jourdan - 1876 - 330 pages
...night, as it begins to glimmer in the sky, I look up at it, and whisper to myself, " O star of strength, I see thee stand And smile upon my pain, Thou beckonest with thy mailed hand And I am strong again." Strong, I hope, to do the duty, and bear the burden which every day may bring, taking for the future... | |
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