 | 1881 - 1046 pages
...little kindnesses Which most leave undone or despise, For naught that sets one's heart at ease ***** Is low-esteemed in her eyes. ' Blessing she is ; God...chanced to know That aught were easier than to bless.' TERHAPS the most remarkable characteristic of Miss Gibson,' writes an acute observer, ' was the wonderful... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1841 - 206 pages
...heart entwines and clings, And patiently she folds her wings To tread the humble paths of life. VI. Blessing she is: God made her so, And deeds of week-day...chanced to know That aught were easier than to bless. Vil. She is most fair, and thereunto Her life doth rightly harmonize; Feeling or thought that was not... | |
 | 1855 - 846 pages
...NIGHTINGALE. God made her so, And deeds of week-day holiness I-'all from her gently as the snow: Nor hiith she ever chanced to know, That aught were easier than to bless. LOWELL. THE intense interest felt among all classes in the great work of mercy with which the name... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1849 - 276 pages
...heart entwines and clings, And patiently she folds her wings To tread the humble paths of earth. 9 VI. Blessing she is : God made her so, And deeds of week-day...chanced to know That aught were easier than to bless. VII. She is most fair, and thereunto Her life doth rightly harmonize ; Feeling or thought that was... | |
 | Lloyd's patriotic fund - 1854 - 206 pages
...story of my life was but a dream, and all these things had ever been the same. FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE. God made her so, And deeds of week-day holiness Fall from her gently as the snow ; Nor hath she ever chanced to know, That anght were easier than to bless. LOWEi.I.... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1856 - 368 pages
...her heart entwines and clings, And patiently she folds her wings, To tread the humble paths of earth. Blessing she is : God made her so, And deeds of week-day...chanced to know That aught were easier than to bless." In fine, we must admire the excellence of common thoughts, for their affinity with a religion that... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1857 - 334 pages
...ner heart entwines and clings, And patiently she folds her wings To tread the humble paths of earth. Blessing she is : God made her so, And deeds of weekday...chanced to know That aught were easier than to bless. VII. She is most fair, and thereunto Her life doth rightly harmonize ; Feeling or thought that was... | |
 | 1859 - 334 pages
...her heart entwines and clings, And patiently she folds her wings, To tread the humble paths of life. Blessing she is, God made her so, And deeds of week-day...chanced to know That aught were easier than to bless. She is most fair, and thereunto Her life doth rightly harmonize ; Feeling or thought that was not true... | |
 | 1861 - 356 pages
...desire, Our hearts ne'er bow but to superior worth, Nor ever fail of their allegiance there. YOUNG. Blessing she is; God made her so; And deeds of week-day...chanced to know That aught were easier than to bless. JE LOWELL. He lived the Truth which reconciled The strong man Reason, Faith the child; In him belief... | |
 | George Washington Doane (bp. of New Jersey.) - 1861 - 652 pages
...entwines and clings, And patiently she folds her wings, To tread the humble paths of earth. * Lowell. " Blessing she is ; God made her so : And deeds of week-day...Nor hath she ever chanced to know, That aught were eaiser than to bless. • " On nature doth she muse and brood, With such a still and love-clear eye,... | |
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Blessing she is: God made her so, And deeds of week-day holiness Fall from her noiseless as the snow, Nor hath she ever chanced to know That aught were easier than to bless. 
