Let us be patient! These severe afflictions Not from the ground arise, But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vapors; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers May... The Sunday Book of Poetry - Página 192por Cecil Frances Alexander - 1865 - 318 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| John William Marsh - 1857 - 444 páginas
...tended, But one dead lamb is there ! There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair ! Let us be patient ! These severe afflictions Not from...sad, funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps. Longfellow. WHEN the last scene of this eventful history became known in England, the most opposite... | |
| Anna Maria Hall - 1857 - 332 páginas
...lighten the shadows that press heavily upon me every now and then, as I think and write. CHAPTER IX. " Let us be patient! These severe afflictions Not from...sad, funereal tapers, May be Heaven's distant lamps." LONGFELLOW. THERE are some days which, in their excess of brightness, from break of morning to the... | |
| 1857 - 372 páginas
...And mournings for the dead ; The heart of Rachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted ! Let us be patient ! These severe afflictions Not from...dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vapors ; Amid these earthly damps, What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant... | |
| 1857 - 1824 páginas
...resignation and peace. Let us conclude with a few verses of lofty precepts and tender consolation : — " Let us be patient ! These severe afflictions Not from...benedictions Assume this dark disguise. " We see but dimly thro* the mist and vapours, And these earthly damps; What seem to as but funeral Upers May be heaven's... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1857 - 428 páginas
...dead ; The heart of Rachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted ! 353 Let us bo patient 1 These severe afflictions Not from the ground arise,...dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vapors, Amid these earthly damps ; What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant... | |
| Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1857 - 1070 páginas
...own daughter. CHAPTER XX. " Lot us be patient. These severe afflictions Not from the ground arlse, But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. " We see but dimly through the inists and vapours, Amid these earthly damps ; What seem to us but sad funereal tapers, Hay be heaven's... | |
| Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1858 - 644 páginas
...thrice-prayed for, the most fair. The best-beloved Night! RESIGNATION. THERE is no flock, however watched and tended, But one dead lamb is there ! There is...dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vapour-. Amid these earthly damps ; What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant... | |
| Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1858 - 642 páginas
...fair, The best-beloved Night! As of the one I love. RESIGNATION. THERE is no flock, however watched and tended, But one dead lamb is there! There is no...ground arise, But oftentimes celestial benedictions We see but dimly through the mists and vapours, Amid these earthly damps ; What seem to us but sad,... | |
| Kenelm Henry Digby - 1858 - 328 páginas
...The heart of Rachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted ! * Stones of Venice. t Whittier. Let us be patient ! these severe afflictions Not from...sad funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps. He is not dead, — the child of our affection, — But gone unto that school Where he no longer needs... | |
| Kenelm Henry Digby - 1858 - 328 páginas
...mournings for the dead ; The heart of Bachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted ! Let ui be patient ! these severe afflictions Not from the...sad funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps. He is not dead, — the child of our affection,— But gone unto that school Where he no longer needs... | |
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