 The stranger at my fireside cannot see The forms I see, nor hear the sounds I hear; He but perceives what is; while unto me All that has been is visible and clear. We have no title-deeds to house or lands; Owners and occupants of earlier dates From graves...  The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Other Poems - Page 80by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1859 - 119 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Denton, Elizabeth M. Foote Denton - 1863 - 392 pages
...ghosts, As silent as the pictures on the wall. " The stranger at the fireside cannot see The forms I see, nor hear the sounds I hear ; He but perceives what...earlier dates, From graves forgotten, stretch their dusky hands, And hold in mortmain still their old estates." And this is true not only of houses and... | |
 | William Denton, Elizabeth M. Foote Denton - 1863 - 382 pages
...ghosts, As silent as the pictures on the wall. " The stranger at the fireside cannot see The forms I see, nor hear the sounds I hear ; He but perceives what...visible and clear. " We have no title-deeds to house or lauds ; Owners and occupants of earlier dates, From graves forgotten, stretch their dusky hands, And... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1864 - 712 pages
...ghosts, As silent as the pictures on the wall. The stranger at my fireside cannot see The forms I see, nor hear the sounds I hear ; He but perceives what is ; while unto me All that has been is visible aud clear. \Ve have no title deeds to house or lands ; Owners and occupants of earlier dates From graves... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1865 - 388 pages
...ghosts, As suent as the pictures on the wall. The stranger at my fireside cannot see The forms I see, nor hear the sounds I hear; He but perceives what...have no title-deeds to house or lands; Owners and occupantsof earlier daws From graves forgotten stretch their dusty hands, And hold in mortmain still... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1866 - 710 pages
...ghosts, As silent as the pictures on the wall. The stranger at my fireside cannot see The forms I see, nor hear the sounds I hear ; He but perceives what...dates From graves forgotten stretch their dusty hands, The spirit-world around this world of sense Floats like an atmosphere, and everywhere Wafta through... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1866 - 300 pages
...quiet, inoffensive ghosts, As silent as the pictures on the wall. The stranger at my fireside cannot see He but perceives what is ; while unto me All that...visible and clear. We have no title-deeds to house or Innds ; Owners and occupants of earlier dates Prom graves forgotten stretch their dusty hands, And... | |
 | Lucy Pauline Wright Hobart - 1867 - 534 pages
...ghosts, As silent as the pictures on the wall. The stranger at my fireside cannot see The forms I see, nor hear the sounds I hear ; He but perceives what...All that has been is visible and clear. We have no title deeds to house or lanus ; — Owners and oceupants of other dates, From graves forgotten, stretch... | |
 | 1875 - 652 pages
...seems distant, but near ; and from that distance it appears as if over the weird land of thought — " Owners and occupants of earlier dates From graves...hands, And hold in mortmain still their old estates ! " In the night-time — and especially in that solemn time when the year is dying — it is that... | |
 | 1865 - 730 pages
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