 | American periodicals - 1848 - 572 pages
...- head in her bosom. Sweet was the light of his eyes ; but it suddenly sank into darkness, As when a lamp is blown out by a gust of wind at a casement. All is over, and Evangeline is left to her meek resignation. The tomb of the lovers still exists, unknown... | |
 | English literature - 1848 - 476 pages
...his head on her bosom. Sweet was the light of his eyes ; but it suddenly sank into darkness, As when a lamp is blown out by a gust of wind at a casement. All was ended now, the hope, and the fear, and the sorrow, All the aching of heart, the restless, unsatisfied... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1848 - 152 pages
...his head on her bos,om. Sweet was the light of his eyes; but it suddenly sank into darkness, As when a lamp is blown out by a gust of wind at a casement. All was ended now, the hope, and the fear, and the sorrow, M ' 2I All the aching of heart, the restless,... | |
 | 1848 - 1390 pages
...Tabriel ! He just recognizes her, and then the light of his eyes suddenly sinks into darkness, " as when a lamp is blown out by a gust of wind at a casement." She bows her head ; the long agony is over now, and the story ends with her saying, 'Father, I thank... | |
 | 1848 - 514 pages
...his head on her bosom. Sweet was the light of his eyes ; but it suddenly sank into darkness, As when a lamp is blown out by a gust of wind at a casement. All was ended now, the hope, and the fear, and the sorrow, All the aching of heart, the restless, unsatisfied... | |
 | American periodicals - 1848 - 636 pages
...his head in her bosom. Sweet was the light of his eyes; but it suddenly sank into darkness, As when a lamp is blown out by a gust of wind at a casement. All is over, and Evangeline is left to her meek resignation. The tomb of the lovers still exists, unknown... | |
 | Eliza Cook - English periodicals - 1849 - 432 pages
...his head on her bosom ; Sweet was the light of his eyes, but it suddenly sank into darkness, As when a lamp is blown out by a gust of wind at a casement. All was ended now, the hopf and the fear, and the sorrow, All the aching of heart, the restless, unsatisfied... | |
 | Thomas Powell - American literature - 1850 - 380 pages
...his head on her bosom. Sweet was the light of his eyes; but it suddenly sank into darkness, * As when a lamp is blown out by a gust of wind at a casement." Thus ends the most elaborated of Mr. Longfellow's poems, and it is one, perhaps, on which he most prides... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1850 - 476 pages
...his head on her bosom. Sweet was the light of his eyes ; but it suddenly sank into darkness, As when a lamp is blown out by a gust of wind at a casement. EVANGELINE. All was ended now, the hope, and the fear, and the sorrow, All the aching of heart, the... | |
 | Thomas Powell - American literature - 1850 - 384 pages
...his head on her bosom. Sweet was the light of his eyes; but it suddenly sank into darkness, As when a lamp is blown out by a gust of wind at a casement." Thus ends the most elaborated of Mr. Longfellow's poems, and it is one, perhaps, on which he most prides... | |
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Died on his lips, and their motion revealed what his tongue would have spoken. Vainly he strove to rise ; and Evangeline, kneeling beside him, Kissed his dying lips, and laid his head on her bosom. Sweet was the light of his eyes ; but it suddenly sank... 
