 Twas at thy door, O friend ! and not at mine, The angel with the amaranthine wreath, Pausing, descended, and with voice divine, Whispered a word that had a sound like Death. Then fell upon the house a sudden gloom, A shadow on those features fair and...  Littell's Living Age - Page 491854Full view - About this book
 | Edward Henry Bickersteth (bp. of Exeter) - 1873 - 320 pages
...voice divine, Whisper'da word that had a sound like Death. Then fell upon the house a sudden gloom, A shadow on those features fair and thin ; And softly from that hush'd and darken'd room Two angels issued, where but one went in. All is of God. If He but wave His... | |
 | 1874 - 544 pages
...obey ; And all are training man to dwell Nearer to heaven, and nearer Thee. 498. ALL IS OF GOD. 10s M. ALL is of God ; if He but wave His hand, The mists...loud, Till with a smile of light on sea and land, Lo, He looks back from the departing cloud. Angels of life and death alike are His ; Without His leave... | |
 | 1874 - 686 pages
...fell upon the house a sudden gloom, A shadow on those features fair and thin ; And, softly from the hushed and darkened room, Two angels issued, where...! if he but wave his hand, The mists collect, the rains fall thick and loud, Till, with a smile of light on sea and land, Lo ! he looks back from the... | |
 | Michigan State Library - 1874 - 660 pages
...the Law Department. We can. truly say with the poet: •• Then fell U[>on the house a sudden gloom, A shadow on those features fair and thin; And softly,...hushed and darkened room. Two angels issued, where hut one went in." Respectfully submitted, HARRIET A. TENNEY, State Librarian. LAWS AND REGULATIONS... | |
 | Alfred Porter Putnam - 1875 - 592 pages
...on its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain. A THE TWO ANGELS. The last two stan2as. Jf. LL is of God ! If he but wave his hand, The mists collect,...sea and land, Lo I he looks back from the departing cloud. Angels of Life and Death alike are his ; Without his leave they pass no threshold o'er; Who,... | |
 | Alfred Porter Putnam - 1875 - 590 pages
...rising on its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain. THE TWO ANGELS. The last two st.mias. A LL is of God ! If he but wave his hand, The mists collect,...loud, Till, with a smile of light on sea and land, Lo ! he looks back from the departing cloud. Angels of Life and Death alike are his ; Without his leave... | |
 | Catherine Marsh - 1875 - 208 pages
...Bear their burdens, all the rather That in them Christ seeks thy door.' CHAPTER I. BY THE SEA-SIDE. " All is of God! If He but wave His hand, The mists...thick and loud, Till, with a smile of light on sea or land, Lo ! He looks back from the departing cloud." ALL day long the rain had fallen heavily, and... | |
 | American Unitarian Association - 1875 - 386 pages
...spirit-land may ever be, And feel thy presence with us always near. 4U9» All is of God. H W. LOKUFKLLOW 1 ALL is of God : if he but wave his hand, The mists collect, the rain falls thick and loud j Till, with a smile of light on sea and land, Lo ! he looks back from the departing cloud. 2 Angels... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 452 pages
...voice divine, Whispered a word, that had a sound like Death Then fell upon the house a sudden gloom — A shadow on those features fair and thin : And softly,...that hushed and darkened room, Two angels issued, whore but one went in. All is of God ! If He but wave His hand, The mists collect, the rains fall thick... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 pages
...that grow between. LONGFKLLOW : The Reaper and the Flowers. Then fell upon the house a sudden gloom, A shadow on those features fair and thin, And softly, from that hush'd and darken'd room, Two angels issued where but one went in. LONGFELLOW: Death of Maria Lowell.... | |
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