 For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.  Proceedings ... - Page 398by New York State Bar Association - 1902Full view - About this book
 | Horatio King - Washington (D.C.) - 1881 - 58 pages
...tree some frait may bear. ###### For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though In another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away, The sky is filled with stars invisible by day." At our next REUNION we had Captain JAMES M. WELLS, an officer in our army during the late war, who... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth - 1882 - 382 pages
...to warm, but not enough to burn. For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day." K^RAMOS. * If there are evidences at times in some of the later poems of waning power, seen in the... | |
 | Nehemiah Cleaveland - Universities and colleges - 1882 - 1148 pages
...something, would we but begin; For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away, The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. ALFRED MARTIN was a native of Hallowell, where after his graduation he studied law with William Clark.... | |
 | William Meynell Whittemore - 1882 - 838 pages
...the oldest tree some fruit may bear. Vor age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, but in another dress ; And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day." Of his longer productions " Evangeline " is probably most read and admired, though the measure —... | |
 | Anna L. Beck Möring - American literature - 1882 - 164 pages
...oldest tree some fruit may bear. For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away, The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day." That opportunity Mr. Longfellow faithfully used. How the English regard Longfellow is shown in the... | |
 | American literature - 1882 - 404 pages
...levels rise. — Santa Filomena. '' For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day." — Morituri Salutamus. " Our little lives are kept in equipoise By opposite attractions ana desires... | |
 | Robert Ellis Thompson, William Wilberforce Newton, Otis H. Kendall - 1882 - 500 pages
...oldest tree some fruit may bear ; . . . For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, but in another dress. And, as the evening twilight fades away, The sky is filled with stars invisible by day," On 27th, February 1877, he reached his seventieth year, and, in reply to a congratulatory letter, he... | |
 | William Sloane Kennedy - Authors, American - 1882 - 380 pages
...oldest tree some fruit may bear. For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress ; And as the evening twilight fades away, The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.' " In 1876 Mr. Longfellow published a centennial poem in The Atlantic Monthly. Some time during the... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1882 - 1434 pages
...— Vanity of Human Wishes. Line 308. Age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another numents of death, All clothes but winding-sheets for our last knell. All dainty failings for ft. LONGFELLOW — Morituri Saiutamus. Line 284. And the bright faces of my young companions Are wrinkled... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1883 - 782 pages
...say of It, old age is still old age. Age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. 365 1 Longfellow : Morituri Salutamut Time has laid his hand Upon my heart, gently, not smiting it,... | |
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