 | Mrs. Molesworth - Conduct of life - 1894 - 292 pages
...with one of her bad colds. Some cleaning was going on, for it was like Longfellow's poem exactly — ' I saw the nursery windows Wide open to the air, But...faces of the children, They were no longer there.' I just squeezed grandmamma's hand without speaking, and we turned away. It is true that troubles do... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1894 - 200 pages
...traveller to the shore, And the tide rises, the tide falls. THE OPEN WINDOW. THE old house by the lindens 1 Stood silent in the shade, And on the gravelled pathway The light and shadow played. 1 The old house by the lindens is what was known as the Lechmere house which formerly stood on Brattle... | |
 | Robert Comfort Metcalf, Thomas Metcalf - English language - 1894 - 300 pages
...soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. 3. The old house by the lindens Stood silent in the shade, And on the graveled pathway The light and shadow played. 4. Hope is the capital on which the world does business.... | |
 | William Henry Summers - Chiltern (England) - 1895 - 326 pages
...Farm, after the long and stormy winter of their sufferings. 12 XXIII.— WILLIAM PENN AT RICKMANSWORTH. The old house by the lindens Stood silent in the shade...the faces of the children They were no longer there. LONGFELLOW. BASING HOUSE, Rickmansworth, where William Penn took up his abode on his marriage with... | |
 | Abram English Brown - Massachusetts - 1897 - 422 pages
...The Open Window : " — The oM house by the lindens Stood silent in the shade. Anil on lbe glavelled pathway The light and shadow played. I saw the nursery windows Wide open to the air ; But the faces of lhe children, They were no longer tberc. The large Newfoundland house-dog Was standing by the door... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1901 - 472 pages
...realms of light It falls into our world of night, With the murmuring sound of rhyme. THE OPEN WINDOW. THE old house by the lindens Stood silent in the shade,...faces of the children, They were no longer there. The large Newfoundland house-dog Was standing by the door; He looked for his little playmates, Who... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1901 - 484 pages
...realms of light It falls into our world of night, With the murmuring sound ot rhyme. THE OPEN WINDOW. THE old house by the lindens Stood silent in the shade,...faces of the children, They were no longer there. The large Newfoundland house-dog Was standing by the door; He looked for his little playmates, Who... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1901 - 488 pages
...house-dog Was standing by the door ; He looked for his little playmates, Who would return no more. They walked not under the lindens, They played not in the hall ; But shadow, and silence, and sadnes Were hanging over all. The birds sang in the branches, With sweet, familiar lone ; But the voices... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1902 - 744 pages
...realms of light It falls into our world of night, With the murmuring sound of rhyme. THE OPEN WINDOW. THE old house by the lindens Stood silent in the shade,...faces of the children, They were no longer there. The large Newfoundland house-dog Was standing by the door ; He looked for his little playmates, Who... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1893 - 924 pages
...house-dog Was standing by the door; I If looked for his little playmates, Who would return no more. They walked not under the lindens, They played not...the hall; But shadow, and silence, and sadness Were banging over all. The birds sang in the branches, With sweet, familiar tone ; But the voices of the... | |
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THE OPEN WINDOW. THE old house by the lindens Stood silent in the shade, And on the gravelled pathway The light and shadow played. I saw the nursery windows Wide open to the air ; But the faces of the children, They were no longer there. 
