 | Martha Noyes Williams - 1853 - 290 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 elysian, Whose portals we call death. She is not dead, — the child of our affection, — But gone... | |
 | 1853 - 560 pages
...these eartbly 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 of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life Elysian, Whose portal we call Death. She is not dead, — the child of our affection, — But gone... | |
 | Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends (1853-1940) - 1891 - 900 pages
...belief. The Chinese never say that one dies, but that he emigrates ; while our sweet poet sings : "There is no death! What seems so is transition; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian. Whose portals we call Death." Doubt has come in with the exaltation of the reasoning faculty.... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853 - 470 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 of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death. She is not dead, — the child of our affection, — But gone... | |
 | Henry Harbaugh - 1853 - 410 pages
...perfect." SECTION I. THE RELATION OP THE EARTHLY TO THE HEAVENLY BODY. There is no death : what seems BO is transition ; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life Elysian, Whose portals we call death. LONGFSLLOW. WE seek the germs of the future life in the present... | |
 | 1853 - 802 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 b but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portals we call Death. She is not dead — the child of our... | |
 | 1853 - 888 pages
...funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps. " There is no death ! What seems so is transition j This life of mortal breath, Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call death. " She is not dead — the child of our affection— But gone unto... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1854 - 332 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 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... | |
 | Francis Parkman - 1854 - 292 pages
...these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers, Hay 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 elysian, Whose portal we call Death. She is not dead, — the child of our affection, — But gone... | |
 | 1854 - 268 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 life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call death. She is not dead, — the child of our affection, — But gone... | |
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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. 
