 | Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - Transcendentalism - 1844 - 556 pages
...rich and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold ; Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the Presence in the room he said, " What...its head, And with a look made all of sweet accord, Answered, " The names of those who love the Lord." " And is mine one?" said Adhem. " Nay, not so,"... | |
 | George Washington Montgomery - Kindness - 1844 - 264 pages
...rich, and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold; Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said, 'What...thou?' The vision raised its head, And with a look made of all sweet accord, Answer'd, ' The names of those who love the Lord.' ' And is mine one ?' said Abou.... | |
 | William Bentley Fowle - Recitations - 1844 - 302 pages
...and like a lily in bloom, An angel, writing in a book of gold. — Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said, " What...The vision raised its head, And, with a look made of all sweet accord, Answered, " the names of those who love the Lord." " And is mine one ?" said Abon.... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1844 - 314 pages
...and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold :— Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said, "What writest thoul"—The vision rais'd its head, And with a look made of all sweet accord, Answer'd, "The names... | |
 | G. W. Montgomery - Kindness - 1845 - 248 pages
...rich, and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold ; Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said, ' What...?' The vision raised its head, And with a look made of all sweet accord, Answer'd,' The names of those who love the Lord.' ' And is mine one ?' said Abou.... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...and like a lily in bloom, An angel, writing in a hook of gold ; Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold : And to the presence in the room he said, "What writest thou !" The vision rais'd its head, And with a look made of all sweet accord, Answer'd, "The names of those who love the... | |
 | John Turner Sargent, Theodore Parker - Unitarian churches - 1845 - 26 pages
...rich and like a lilly in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold. Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold ; And to the presence in the room he said, ' What writest thou ? ' — The angel raised his head, And, with a look made all of sweet accord, Answered — 'The names of those... | |
 | Henry Clapp - American literature - 1846 - 228 pages
...moonlight in his room, Making it rich and like a lily in bloom, An Angel writing in a book of gold; — And to the presence in the room he said: — " What...The Vision raised its head, And, with a look made of all sweet accord, Answer'd: — " The names of those who love the Lord." " And is mine one " ? said... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 302 pages
...and like a lily in bloom, — An Angel writing in a book of gold. Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said, " What writest thou?" The vision raised its head, And, in a voice made all of sweet accord, Answered, "The names of those who love the Lord !" " And is mine... | |
 | Seba Smith - Gift books - 1846 - 216 pages
...rich and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold ; Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, " And to the presence in the room he said, " What writest thou ?" The vision raised his head And, in a voice made all of sweet accord, Answered : " The names of those who love the Lord... | |
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And saw within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold. Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said, "What writest thou?" The vision raised its head,... 
