 How strange it seems, with so much gone Of life and love, to still live on ! Ah, brother ! only I and thou Are left of all that circle now, — The dear home faces whereupon That fitful firelight paled and shone. Henceforward, listen as we will, The voices...  Snow-bound: A Winter Idyl - Page 19by John Greenleaf Whittier - 1866 - 52 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1889 - 876 pages
...epoch as fully as their elders. They have followed its heroes to the grave, and find it strange, " With so much gone Of life and love, to still live on." Sometimes, they almost feel that their keenest interests, their bravest faith and best aspirations,... | |
 | 1866 - 648 pages
...has touchingly portrayed the feelings of one around whom death has created a solitude, in the cry : "How strange it seems with so much gone Of life and love, to still live on." But where shall we find words sufficiently expressive of the surprise and grief of him whose heart... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 374 pages
...night behaved ? What matter how the north-wind raved ? Blow high, blow low, not all its snow Could quench our hearth-fire's ruddy glow. O Time and Change...! only I and thou Are left of all that circle now, — The dear home faces' whereupon That fitful firelight paled and shone. 5. Henceforward, listen as... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 386 pages
...night behaved ? What matter how the north-wind raved ? Blow high, blow low, not all its snow Could quench our hearth-fire's ruddy glow. O Time and Change...only I and thou Are left of all that circle now,— The dear home faces whereupon 5. Henceforward, listen as we will, The voices of that hearth are still;... | |
 | 1867 - 148 pages
...returns." In my own family how great the changes. " O Time and change ! How strange it seems, with eo much gone Of life and love to still live on ; Ah,...! only I and thou Are left of all that circle now. — The dear home faces whereupon That fltful firelight paled and shone, Hence forward, listen as we... | |
 | 1867 - 454 pages
...devoted friends. ILLEGITIMACY OF THE NEW-YORK COUNCIL. 115 " Oh Time and change ! How strange it teems, with so much gone Of life and love, to still live on ! Yet Love will dream, and Faith will trust (Since He who knows our need is just), That somehow, somewhere,... | |
 | 1868 - 594 pages
...unripe to Nature. By a MEROHAKT. Boston : WHITE & COMPANY, Banner of Light Office. THE LOVED NOT LObT. How strange it seems with so much gone Of life and...brother, only I and thou Are left of all that circle now — The dear home faces whereupon That fitful firelight paled and shone, Henceforward, listen as we... | |
 | 1871 - 210 pages
...thou sit'st at the feet of God victorious, "Philip, the King!" DINAH MAKIA MULOCH. THE LOVED NOT LOST. How strange it seems with so much gone Of life and...brother, only I and thou Are left of all that circle now, — The dear home faces whereupon That fitful firelight paled and shone, Henceforward, listen as we... | |
 | Noble Kibby Royse - 1872 - 376 pages
...the night behaved? What matter how the north-wind raved? Blow high, blow low, not all its snow Could quench our hearth-fire's ruddy glow. O Time and Change! — with hair as gray As was my sire's that winter's day, How strange it seems, with so much gone Of life and love, to still live on ! Ah, brother!... | |
 | Noble Kibby Royse - 1872 - 382 pages
...north-wind raved? Blow high, blow low, not all its snow Could quench our hearth-fire's ruddy glow. 0 Time and Change! — with hair as gray As was my sire's that winter's day, How. strange it seems, with so much gone Of life and love, to still live on ! Ah, brother!... | |
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