 | John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 pages
...fleet ! Maidenhood. O thou child of many prayers ! Life hath quicksands, — life hath snares ! Ibid. The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings...feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight. The Day is Done. A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only... | |
 | Cincinnati (Ohio). Board of Education - 1874 - 322 pages
...similes in the following quotations : "Springs upward like a pyramid of fire Into the wild expanse." " The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings...feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight." " Love is a sudden blaze which soon decays ; Friendship is like the sun's eternal rays; Not daily benefits... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1874 - 412 pages
...recent date is the following from Longfellow: The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wing of night, As a feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight. RULE 3. Similes should not be drawn from objects with which ordinary readers are unacquainted. What... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1875 - 400 pages
...shall present for your consideration, than by the citation of the Proem to Mr. Longfellow's " Waif.'' The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings...Eagle in his flight. I see the lights of the village Gleam through the rain and the mist, And a feeling of sadness comes o'er me, That my soul cannot resist... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 452 pages
...squire, Or knight of the shire, Lives half so well as a holy friar r' THE DAY IS DONE. [HW LONGFELLOW THE day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings...eagle in his flight. I see the lights of the village Gleam through the rain and the mist, And a feeling of sadness comes o'er me, That my soul cannot resist... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1869 - 298 pages
...shall present for your consideration, than by the citation of the Proem to Mr. Longfellow's " Waif " : The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings...Eagle in his flight. I see the lights of the village Gleam through the rain and the mist, And a feeling of sadness comes o'er me That my soul cannot resist;... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 pages
...waste the day, Noting at length the setting sun, They mend their pace as night comes on. GRANVILLE. The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings...feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight. LONGFELLOW. And the night shall be fill'd with musie, And the cares that infest the day Shall fold... | |
 | James Cargill Guthrie - 1875 - 550 pages
...served effectually to soothe and comfort him after the fatiguing toils and labours of the day : — " The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings...feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight. " Come, read to me some poem, Some simple and heart-felt lay, That shall soothe this restless feeling.... | |
 | James Cargill Guthrie - 1875 - 558 pages
...served effectually to soothe and comfort him after the fatiguing toils and labours of the day : — " The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings...feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight. " Come, read to me some poem, Some simple and heart-felt lay, That shall soothe this restless feeling,... | |
 | Mrs. Randolph - 1875 - 340 pages
...the Hall two days after, and Christian and her father settled down to their quiet life. CHAPTER II. " The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings...feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight." LONGFELLOW. T)UT the quietness was hardly that of former -^ days. Friends and neighbours, having once... | |
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The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight. I see the lights of the village Gleam through the rain and the mist, And a feeling of sadness comes o'er me, That my soul cannot... 
