 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1819 - 636 pagina’s
...flower, That leaves upon the vernal wind Sweetness we ne'er again may find. ' Where dwelt »he ? — Ask yon aged tree, Whose boughs embower the lawn,...amidst immensity, Where human thought, like human si¿ht, Fails to pursue their trackless night. 4 Somewhere within created space, Could I explore that... | |
 | Friedrich Johann Jacobsen - 1820 - 796 pagina’s
...oak no answer come, Of her all oracles are dumb. TJie Dead are like the stars by day; — Witlidrawn from mortal eye, But not extinct, they hold their...Vanish amidst immensity, Where human thought, like Jmman sight. Fails to pursue their trackless ßight. Somewhere within created space. Could 1 explore... | |
 | 1879 - 1042 pagina’s
...on the evening of May 1st, 1876, she.fell asleep in Jesus, in the sixty-seventh year of her age. ' The dead are like the stars by day, Withdrawn from mortal eye ; Yet holding, uuperceived, their way In heaven's unclouded sky. * * * * ' For death its sacred seal... | |
 | Mary R. Sterndale - 1824 - 158 pagina’s
...still flow around the palace she once irradiated, now reflect her tomb, i 4 COUNTESS OF BESBOROUGH. The Dead are like the stars by day ; Withdrawn from...extinct, they hold their way, In glory through the sky. THE remains of Henrietta Francis, Countess of Besborough, second daughter of John Earl Spencer, and... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 pagina’s
...like the fragrance of a flower, That leaves upon the vernal wind Sweetness we ne'er again may find. Where dwelt she ?— Ask yon aged tree, Whose boughs...immensity, Where human thought, like human sight, Kails to pursue their trackless flight. Somewhere within created space Could I explore that round,... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1829 - 520 pagina’s
...infancy she pl.iy'd : — If from (lie oak no answer come, Of her all orarles are dumb. The Dead arc like the stars by day; — Withdrawn from mortal eye,...extinct, they hold their way In glory through the sky: 1 Henry Cornelia« Agrippa, of Netteiheim, counsellor to tliarlet V, Emperor of Germany,— the aulhor... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 514 pagina’s
...boughs embower the lawn, Whether the birds' wild minstrelsy Awoke her here at dawn ; Whether beneath ils youthful shade, At noon, in infancy she play'd : —If...extinct, they hold their way In glory through the sky : 1 Henry Cornelius Agrippa, of Nettesheim, couiuellor to Charle« V. Emperor of Germany,— the author... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 516 pagina’s
...play'd : — If from the oak no answer come, Of her all oracles are dumb. The Dead arc like the stare by day ; Withdrawn from mortal eye, But not extinct, they hold their way tn glory through the «ky : 1 Ilenr» (.'umrliiu Acrippn, of Netleshcim. counicllor to rWlea V. Kinpcmr... | |
 | 1837 - 518 pagina’s
...often followed in thought the flight of the spirit. But we feel that " The dead are like the glare by day, Withdrawn from mortal eye ; But, not extinct, they hold their way In glory through the aky. Spirits from bondage thus set free Vanish amidst immensity." They are in glory, they are with... | |
 | Rembrandt Peale - 1839 - 276 pagina’s
...attitude, and face — One passion's changing colour mix ; One moment's flight for ages fix. * * . * * * * The dead are like the stars by day ; Withdrawn from...sky : Spirits, from bondage thus set free, Vanish amid immensity, Where human thought, like human sight, Fails to pursue their trackless flight. * *... | |
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The dead are like the stars by day ; Withdrawn from mortal eye, But not extinct, they hold their way In glory through the sky... 
