 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1988 - 442 pages
...above me The patter of little feet, The sound of a door that is opened, And voices soft and sweet. From my study I see in the lamplight, Descending the...Alice, and laughing Allegra, And Edith with golden hair. A whisper, and then a silence: Yet I know by their merry eyes They are plotting and planning... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1992 - 226 pages
...above me The patter of little feet, The sound of a door that is opened, And voices soft and sweet. From my study I see in the lamplight, Descending the...Alice, and laughing Allegra, And Edith with golden hair. A whisper, and then a silence: Yet I know by their merry eyes They are plotting and planning... | |
 | Philip Smith - 1992 - 100 pages
...above me The patter of little feet, The sounds of a door that is opened, And voices soft and sweet. From my study I see in the lamplight, Descending the...Alice, and laughing Allegra, And Edith with golden hair. A whisper, and then a silence: Yet I know by their merry eyes They are plotting and planning... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1993 - 50 pages
...above me The patter of little feet, The sound of a door that is opened, And voices soft and sweet. From my study I see in the lamplight, Descending the...broad hall stair, Grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, ' OOO And Edith with golden hair. A whisper, and then a silence: Yet I know by their merry eyes They... | |
 | Ken Tate, Janice Tate - 2001 - 164 pages
...above me The patter of little feet, The sound of a door that is opened, And voices soft and sweet. From my study I see in the lamplight, Descending the...Alice and laughing Allegra, And Edith with golden hair. A whisper, and then a silence; Yet I know by their merry eyes, They are plotting and planning... | |
 | Paul Negri - 2002 - 146 pages
...above me The patter of little feet, The sound of a door that is opened, And voices soft and sweet. From my study I see in the lamplight, Descending the...Alice, and laughing Allegra, And Edith with golden hair. A whisper, and then a silence: Yet I know by their merry eyes They are plotting and planning... | |
 | Anne Morrow Lindbergh - 2010 - 148 pages
...sentimental for my taste. But I went through it with feeling that morning to loosen up my inhibitions: 45 "From my study I see in the lamplight, Descending the broad hall stair, Grave Alice, and laughing Allegro, And Edith with golden hair" My voice sounded too silly to believe. I blushed in spite of myself,... | |
 | Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - 2007 - 778 pages
...little feet, THE CYCLES The sound of a door that is opened, OF LIFE And voices soft and sweet. 106 \ From my study I see in the lamplight, Descending the...Alice, and laughing Allegra, And Edith with golden hair. A whisper, and then a silence: Yet I know by their merry eyes They are plotting and planning... | |
 | Robert W. West - 2005 - 233 pages
...his lap as he read to them, with a little paraphrasing, Longfellow's poem, The Children's Hour. ".. .From my study I see in the lamplight, Descending the broad hall stair, Grave Regina and laughing Salina, CHAPTER 4 "Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we... | |
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I hear in the chamber above me The patter of little feet, The sound of a door that is opened, And voices soft and sweet. From my study I see in the lamplight, Descending the broad hall stair, Grave Alice and laughing Allegra, And Edith with golden hair. 
