 Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps. There is no Death ! What seems so is transition. This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death.  The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Sida 351efter Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1856 - 400 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Charles Granville Gepp - 1830 - 194 sidor
...chair ! The air is full of farewells to the dying, And mournings for the dead : The heart of Eachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted ! Let...celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. Stanza n. 1, 2. Everywhere are bewailed the (lying (raoritura cohors) and the dead ; And the ceaseless... | |
 | 1851 - 592 sidor
...And mournings for the dead ; The heart of Rachael, for her children crying. Will not be comforted 1 Let us be patient ! these severe afflictions Not from...vapors; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but dim, funeral tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps. There Is no death ! what seems so is transition... | |
 | 1853 - 588 sidor
...has not healed the breach or closed the wound. Our "fire-side has one vacant chair;" but " Let us bo patient, these severe afflictions Not from the ground...celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise." Young friends ! how eloquent is her early grave ! Our Jane was 1 6 years of age when she died. How... | |
 | 1856 - 1026 sidor
...mournings for the dead ; The heart of Rachel for her children crying Will not be comforted ? Let ns he patient; these severe afflictions Not from the ground...dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vapours ; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but dim, funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant... | |
 | 1868
...waves and billows pass over us, and we are made to possess wearisome nights and troublesome days : " Let us be patient ; these severe afflictions Not from...dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vapours : Amid these earthly damps, What seem to us but sad funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant... | |
 | 1850 - 642 sidor
...one vacant chair ! The air is full of farewells to the dying, And mournings for the dead ; The heart of Rachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted...severe afflictions Not from the ground arise, But often timos celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. We see out dimly through the mists and... | |
 | 1852 - 788 sidor
...bring her out of her present darkness, into a most marvellous light. THE TWO GUARDIANS. CHAPTER XX. " Let us be patient. These severe afflictions Not from...disguise. " We see but dimly through the mists and vapours, Amid those earthly damps ; What seem to us but sad funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant... | |
 | 1849 - 742 sidor
...one vacant chair ! The air is full of farewells to the dying, And mournings for the dead ; The heart of Rachel for her children crying Will not be comforted...vapors ; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but dim funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps. There is no Death ! what seems so is transition... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1849 - 934 sidor
...one vacant chair ! The air is full of farewells to the dying, And mournings for the dead ; The heart of Rachel for her children crying Will not be comforted...Assume this dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mista and vapours; Amid these earthly damps What seera to us but dim, funereal tapers May be heaven's... | |
 | 1849 - 620 sidor
...one vacant chair! The air is full of farewells to the dying, And mournings for the dead; The heart of Rachel for her children crying Will not be comforted...arise, But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume tins dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vapours; Amid these earthly damps What seem... | |
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