 | 1885 - 810 pages
...Into the Arctic region of our lives Where little else than life itself survives, • ••••* 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." CINCINNATI... | |
 | 1893 - 376 pages
...higher station. — Cicero. None of us is the same in old age that we are in youth. — Seneca. 59. Age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress. — Longfellow. 60. Age is not all decay ; it is the ripening, the swelling of the fresh life within,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1886 - 348 pages
...that one morning rode Out of the gateway of the Tabard Inn, But other 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. A BOOK OF SONNETS... | |
 | Owen Street - 1887 - 430 pages
...the failing light. Something remains for us to do or dare, Even the 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." But no poet... | |
 | James Grant Wilson, John Fiske - 1888 - 838 pages
...graduation, the beautiful poem " Morituri Salutamus." It [ ended with the characteristic verse — " 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." On his seventy-fourth... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1887 - 360 pages
...that one morning rode Out of the gateway of the Tabard Inn, But other 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. BIRDS OF PASSAGE.... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1887 - 632 pages
...morning rode Out of the gateway of the Tabard (tab'ard) Inn, But other 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." Mr. Longfellow... | |
 | 1890 - 578 pages
...not yet night," only to remind them that in all the great scheme of creation there is growth. " And age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away, The sky is tilled with stars, invisible by day." And so with... | |
 | James Grant Wilson, John Fiske - 1888 - 836 pages
...graduation. the beautiful poem " Morituri Salutamus." It ended with the characteristic verse — " 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." On his seventy-fourth... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1888 - 476 pages
...that one morning rode Out of the gateway of the Tabard Inn, But other 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. CHAPTER IV.... | |
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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. 
