 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1858 - 328 pages
...Amid these earthly damps, What seem to us but sad funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps. He is not dead, — the child of our affection, — But gone unto that school Where he no longer needs our poor protection, And Christ Himself doth rule. In that great cloister's stillness... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1859 - 724 pages
...Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps. There is no Death ! What seems so is transition ; This life...great cloister's stillness and seclusion, By guardian angel's led, Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution, She lives, whom we call dead. Day after... | |
 | Light - 1859 - 186 pages
...these earthly damps ; What seem to us but dim funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps. There is no death! what seems so is transition ; This life...life Elysian, Whose portal we call death. She is not dead—the child of our affection— But gone unto that school Where she no longer needs our poor protection,... | |
 | John Cumming - 1859 - 464 pages
...dead lamb is there ; There is no fireside, hovvsoe'er defended, But hath one vacant chair. " There is no death : what seems so is transition ; This life...of the life elysian, Whose portal we call death." We have seen first of all that God is- holy ; secondly, that he leaves not sin without its retribution... | |
 | Annie Keary - 1859 - 294 pages
...nothing could ever quench again the new light of life, that had arisen for her. 218 CHAPTER IX. 1 There is no death — what seems so is transition ; This...of the life Elysian, Whose portal we call death." LONGFELLOW. MAXWELL kept his promise, and chose a fresh route home ; but it must be confessed that... | |
 | 1859 - 300 pages
...these earthly damps ; What seem to us but sad funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps. There is no death ! -what seems so is transition ; This...suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call death. LONGFELLOW. |}r0lun THE broken ties of happier days, How often do they seem To come before the mental... | |
 | 1859 - 858 pages
...teachings of nature, professed their firm belief in a life beyond death. " There U no death ! W liât seems so is transition. This life of mortal breath...of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death." Life ever springs from death — life in new forms perhaps, but ever life. Death is no end in itself;... | |
 | G. M. Sterne - 1859 - 302 pages
...earthly damps ; What seems to us but sad funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps. ' ' There is no death, what seems so, is transition ; This life of mortal breath, Is but a suburb of the life elysium, Whose portal we call death." A WEEK afterwards, Florence and I accompanied my father to Sunnybrow... | |
 | HENRY HOWE - 1859 - 748 pages
...Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but dim funereal tapers May be Heaven's distant lamps. There is no Death! what seems so is transition; This life of Mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysiau, Whose portal we call Death. She is not dead—the child of our affection— But gone unto... | |
 | Joseph Barlow Robinson - 1859 - 220 pages
...As you are now so once was I, As I am now so you must be, Therefore prepare to follow me. 25. There is no Death : — what seems so is transition ! This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb to the life Elysian Whose portals — we call Death. 26. He was one Schooled in adversity — he was... | |
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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. 
