 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...dimly through the mists and vapors Amid these earthly damps, What seem to us but sad funereal taners, May be heaven's distant lamps. There is no Death!...our poor protection, And Christ himself doth rule. In that great cloister's stillness and seclusion By guardian angels led, Safe from temptation, safe... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...through the mists and vapours ; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers There is no Death ! What seems so is transition ; This life...our poor protection, And Christ himself doth rule. In that great cloister's stillness and seclusion, By guardian angels led, Safe from temptation, safe... | |
 | Heavenly thoughts - 1851 - 318 pages
...Assume their dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vapours ; — Amid these earthly damps, What seem to us but sad funereal tapers, May...is Transition ; This life of mortal breath Is but the suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death. He is not dead, the child of our affection,... | |
 | 1851 - 448 pages
...transition ; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb to the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death. VL She is not dead — the child of our affection —...our poor protection, And Christ himself doth rule. VIL In that great cloister's stillness and seclusion, By guardian angels led, Safe from temptation... | |
 | Ears - 1851 - 176 pages
...Death is the veil which those who live call life ; They sleep, and it is lifted. — SHELLRY. There is no Death ! what seems so is transition ; This life...of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death.— LONGFELLOW. It matters little at what honr o' the day The righteous fall asleep ; death cannot coma... | |
 | Davis Wasgatt Clark - Christian martyrs - 1851 - 592 pages
...expressive language, he became " entirely well." He died December 8, 1691. 4. DR. DODDRIDGE. "There is no death: what seems so is transition; This life...a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call death."—LONGFELLOW. PHILIP DODDRIDGE was born in London in the year 1702. His parents were both pious,... | |
 | Samuel Irenæus Prime - Children - 1852 - 172 pages
...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...our poor protection, And Christ himself doth rule. In that great cloister's stillness and seclusion, By guardian angels led, Safe from temptation, safe... | |
 | J. B. Syme - Death - 1852 - 196 pages
...disguise. THE MOURNER'S FRIEND. We see but dimly through the mists and vapors ; Amid these earthly damps • What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers,...our poor protection, And Christ himself doth rule. In that great cloister's stillness and seclusion By guardian angels led, Safe from temptation, safe... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1852 - 256 pages
...benedictions Assume this dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vapours ; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers May...our poor protection, And Christ himself doth rule. In that great cloister's stillness and seclusion, By guardian angels led, Safe from temptation, safe... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - American literature - 1852 - 344 pages
...disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vapours Amid these earthly damps, What seem to ns but sad funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps....our poor protection, And Christ himself doth rule. In that great cloister's stillness and seclusion By guardian angels led, Safe from temptation, safe... | |
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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. 
