 | Book - 1854 - 496 pagina’s
...through the mists and vapours; Amid these earthly damps, What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers, May bo heaven's distant lamps. There is no Death ! What seems...our poor protection, And Christ himself doth rule. In that great cloister's stillness and seclusion, By guardian angels led, Safe from temptation, safe... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1854 - 432 pagina’s
...lamps. There is no death ! What seems so in transition ; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb to the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death. She...our poor protection, And Christ himself doth rule. In that great cloister's stillness and seclusion, By guardian angels led, Safe from temptation, safe... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1854 - 332 pagina’s
...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...life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life Elysian,2 Whose portal we call Death. She is not dead, — the child of our affection, — Bnt gone... | |
 | S. Herbert Lancey - 1854 - 338 pagina’s
...see but dimly thro' the mists and vapors ; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funeral tapers May be heaven's distant lamps. There is no...breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portals wo call Death. She is not dead, — the child of our affection, — But gone unto that school... | |
 | Edwin Davies (D.D.) - 1854 - 154 pagina’s
...family of Bethany. " We see but dimly thro' the mists and vapours, Amid these earthly damps ; What seems to us but sad funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant...is transition ; This life of mortal breath Is but the suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call death." And, yet, knowing as we do that death... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1854 - 580 pagina’s
...heaven's distant lamps. There is no Death! What seems so is transition; This life of mortal brealh Is but a suburb of the life Elysian, Whose portal...dead, the child of our affection, But gone unto that sehool Where she no longcr needs our poorprotection, And Christ himself doth rule. In that great cloister's... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 472 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 568 pagina’s
...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...school Where she no longer needs our poor protection, In that great cloister's stillness and seclusion, By guardian angels led, Safe from temptation, safe... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1855 - 580 pagina’s
...dinsty through the mists and vapors Amid these earthly damps, What seem to us but sad funereal taoers, 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 - 1855 - 264 pagina’s
...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... | |
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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. 
