 | Nathaniel Parker Willis - Europe - 1835 - 1350 pages
...boatman, after such a musing passage, to remember the poetical justice of Uhland in crossing the ferry : " Take, O boatman, thrice thy fee ! Take ! I give it willingly ; For, invisibly to.thee, Spirits tteaiTi have crossed with me !" I should have paid for one other seat, at... | |
 | English literature - 1836 - 172 pages
...Saddening thoughts of friends come o'er me, Friends that closed their course before me. But what hinds us friend to friend, But that soul with soul can blend?...invisible to thee Spirits twain have crossed with me. UHLAND. THE following beautiful translation has received a place apart from the others, since it was... | |
 | Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1836 - 964 pages
...his soul, and the soldier man poet's thought when crossing the ferry to his wife and child : — " Take, O boatman ! thrice thy fee, Take, I give it willingly : For, invisibly to thee, Spirits ticain have crosg'd with me." perils his life ! And how insignificant and... | |
 | Nathaniel Parker Willis - American fiction - 1836 - 262 pages
...sweetest thing I remember is the German poet's though: crossing the ferry to his wife and child . — " Take, O boatman ! thrice thy fee, Take, I give it willingly: For, invisibly to thee, Spirits twain have crossed with me," years. I would lay my life she thinks at this... | |
 | Johnstone - English essays - 1840 - 386 pages
...before me ! " But what binds us, friend to friend ? 'Tis that soul with soul can blend ! Soul-fraught were those hours of yore ; Let us walk in soul once...willingly ! For, invisible to thee, Spirits twain have cross'd with me." There is something sweet as well as sad even in the very abruptness of these lines.... | |
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 494 pages
...gone by, Saddening thoughts of friends come o'er me, Friends that closed their course before me. But what binds us friend to friend, But that soul with...invisible to thee, Spirits twain have crossed with me. LESSON CLXI. Rosamund Gray. LAMB. IT was noontide. The sun was very hot. An old gentlewoman sat spinning... | |
 | Great Britain - 1845 - 916 pages
...exclusively the interpreting key, that enabled me to commune with idealities to them invisible: — ' Take, O boatman ! thrice thy fee, Take, I give it...invisible to thee, Spirits twain have crossed with me.' — Uhland. This is the peculiarity of mental over material natures ; they live amidst spiritualities... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - English poetry - 1845 - 886 pages
...with soul can blend ? Soul-like were those hours of yore ; Let us walk in soul once more. Take, О boatman, thrice thy fee, — Take, I give it willingly...invisible to thee, Spirits twain have crossed with me. THE NUN. It the silent cloister-garden, Beneath the pale moonshine, There walked a lovely maiden, And... | |
 | Ellen Wallace - English fiction - 1870 - 192 pages
...both versions." " How does the English verse run? " asked Lord Robert. Anne repeated : — " ' Take^O boatman, thrice thy fee, Take, I give it willingly— For, invisible to thee, Spirits twain have passed with me.' " "Ay," said Lord Robert, quickly, "and the German has it : — " • Kimm nnr Fahrmann,... | |
 | Nathaniel Parker Willis - Frontier and pioneer life - 1850 - 392 pages
...thing I remember is the German poet's thought when crossing the ferry to his wife and child :— " Take. O boatman ! thrice thy fee, Take, I give it willingly ; For, invisibly to thee, Spirits tu'ttin have crossed with meS* of that solitary senior was far from lonely.... | |
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And his grave in silence sought; But the younger, brighter form Passed in battle and in storm. " So, whene'er I turn my eye Back upon the days gone by, Saddening thoughts of friends come o'er me, Friends, who closed their course before me. " Yet what... 
