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Display Title: Angel footsteps First Line: When the hours of day are numbered Author: Henry W. Longfellow; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Date: 1864
Hymns of Progress #d226
Footsteps of angels
When the hours of day are numbered
Author: Henry W. LongfellowPublished in 8 hymnals
Author: Henry W. Longfellow
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth , D.C.L. was born at Portland, Maine, Feb. 27, 1807, and graduated at Bowdoin College, 1825. After residing in Europe for four years to qualify for the Chair of Modern Languages in that College, he entered upon the duties of the same. In 1835 he removed to Harvard, on his election as Professor of Modern Languages and Belles-Lettres. He retained that Professorship to 1854. His literary reputation is great, and his writings are numerous and well known. His poems, many of which are as household words in all English-speaking countries, display much learning and great poetic power. A few of these poems and portions of others have come into common use as hymns, but a hymn-writer in the strict sense of that term he… Go to person page >Instances
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Progressive Songster #d176
Display Title: The footsteps of angels First Line: When the hours of day are numbered Author: Henry W. Longfellow; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Date: 1872
Progressive Songster #d176
Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith #218
Display Title: When the hours of Day are numbered First Line: When the hours of Day are numbered Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Date: 1875 Subject: Footsteps of angels |
Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith #218
Song-Flowers #d139
Display Title: When the hours of day are numbered First Line: When the hours of day are numbered Author: Henry W. Longfellow; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Date: 1868
Song-Flowers #d139
The One Key Singer #d59
Display Title: Angel footsteps First Line: When the hours of day are numbered Author: Henry W. Longfellow; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Date: 1871
The One Key Singer #d59
The Psalms of Life: A Compilation of Psalms, Hymns, Chants, Anthems, &c. Embodying the Spiritual, Progressive and Reformatory Sentiment of the Present Age #288
Display Title: When the hours of day are numbered First Line: When the hours of day are numbered Author: Longfellow Date: 1857
The Psalms of Life: A Compilation of Psalms, Hymns, Chants, Anthems, &c. Embodying the Spiritual, Progressive and Reformatory Sentiment of the Present Age #288
The Spirit Minstrel. 2nd ed. #d99
Display Title: When the hours of day are numbered First Line: When the hours of day are numbered Author: Henry W. Longfellow; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Date: 1857
The Spirit Minstrel. 2nd ed. #d99
The Treasury of American Sacred Song with Notes Explanatory and Biographical #37
Display Title: Footsteps of angels First Line: When the hours of day are numbered Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Date: 1896
The Treasury of American Sacred Song with Notes Explanatory and Biographical #37
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