 | William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1858 - 516 pages
...defended, But has one vacant chair. 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. Day after day, we think what she is doing In those bright realms of air; Year after year, her tender... | |
 | Children - 1858 - 240 pages
...disguise. We see but dimly through the mist and vapours ; Amid these earthly damps, What seem to us hut 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... | |
 | Walter Aimwell - Children - 1858 - 282 pages
...benedictions Assume this dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mist and vapors ; Amid these earthly damps, What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers, May...mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, She is not dead, — the child of our affection, — But gone unto that school Where she no longer... | |
 | Walter Aimwell - Children - 1858 - 262 pages
...benedictions Assume this dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mist and vapors ; Amid these earthly damps, What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers, May...life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life clysian, Whose portal we call Death. She is not dead, — the child of our affection, — But gone... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - American poetry - 1858 - 644 pages
...benedictions Assume this dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vapour-. Amid these earthly damps ; What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers,...life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life clysian, Whose portal we call Death. She is not dead, — the child of our affection, — But gone... | |
 | John Cumming - 1858 - 628 pages
...through the mists and vapors, Amid these earthly damps ; What seem to us but sad funereal tapers May he heaven's distant lamps. ' There is no death. What...of the life elysian, Whose portal we call death." " Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am : that they may behold... | |
 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 pages
...afflictions Not from the ground arise, But oftentimes celestial benediction.} Assume this dark disguise. She is not dead — the child of our affection ; But...our poor protection And Christ himself doth rule. Day after day we think what she is doing In those bright realms of air ; Year after year, her maiden... | |
 | Margaret Anthony Cabell - Lynchburg (Va.) - 1858 - 364 pages
...was tenderly recorded by one who stood beside her and has long since joined her in Heaven : " There is no death — what seems so is transition : This...suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death !" Of the members of the Cabell family in Lynchburg, Mrs. WILLIAM LEWIS, of Mount Athos, may properly... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1859 - 724 pages
...benedictions Assume this dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mist 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 angel's led, Safe from temptation, safe... | |
 | Hymns, English - 1859 - 300 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...suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call death. LONGFELLOW. (MS) THE broken ties of happier days, How often do they seem To come before the mental... | |
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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. 
