 EVE. DEEP on the convent-roof the snows Are sparkling to the moon: My breath to heaven like vapour goes : May my soul follow soon ! The shadows of the convent-towers Slant down the snowy sward, Still creeping with the creeping hours That lead me to my...  The Christian Remembrancer - Page 571842Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Manning - 1880 - 216 pages
...: My breath to heaven like vapour goes May my soul follow soon ! The shadows of the convent-towers Slant down the snowy sward, Still creeping with the...year That in my bosom lies. As these white robes are soiled and dark, To yonder shining ground ; As this pale taper's earthly spark, To yonder argent round... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1877 - 379 pages
...: My breath to heaven like vapor goes : May my soul follow soon ! The shadows of the convent-towers Slant down the snowy sward. Still creeping with the...are soil'd and dark, To yonder shining ground ; As tins pale taper's earthly spark, To yonder argent round ; So shows my soul before the Lamb, My spirit... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1877 - 96 pages
...: My breath to heaven like vapor goes : May my soul follow soon ! The shadows of the convent-towers Slant down the snowy sward, Still creeping with the...year That in my bosom lies. As these white robes are soiled and dark, To yonder shining ground ; As this pale taper's earthly spark, To yonder argent round... | |
 | 1877
...reproduced : and meanwhile what shall even the holiest dare do more than echo the great poet's words : — " As these white robes are soil'd and dark, To yonder shining ground ; As this pole taper's earthly spark, To yonder argent round ; So shows my soul before the Lamb, My spirit before... | |
 | Days - 1878
...nothing which makes the soul so courageous and venturesome for anything as a good hope. S. CHRYSOSTOM. Make Thou my spirit pure and clear As are the frosty...year, That in my bosom lies. As these white robes are soiled and dark To yonder shining ground ; As this pale taper's earthly spark To yonder argent round... | |
 | H. L. Sidney Lear - 1879 - 408 pages
...nothing which makes the soul so courageous and venturesome for anything as a good hope. S. CHRYSOSTOM. Make Thou my spirit pure and clear As are the frosty...year, That in my bosom lies. As these white robes are soiled and dark To yonder shining ground ; As this pale taper's earthly spark To yonder argent round... | |
 | M H S - 1879
...the righteousness of saints. RRV. xix. 8. As these white robes are soiled and dark To yonder snowy ground ; As this pale taper's earthly spark, To yonder...So shows my soul before the Lamb, My spirit before thec ; So in my earthly house I am To that I hope to be. ALFRRD TRNNYSON. A/TY soul hangs on thee,... | |
 | 1879
...soon ! The shadows of the convent-towers Slant down the snowy sward, Still ereeping with the ereeping hours That lead me to my Lord; Make Thou my spirit pure and elear As are the frosty skies. Or this first snowdrop of the year That in my bosom lies. As these white... | |
 | Bayard Taylor - 1879 - 511 pages
...pavement, I murmured to myself, — " Tiiu shadows of the convent-towers Slant down the sno\vv swan!, Still creeping with the creeping hours That lead me to my Lord." 1 don't know what strange, poetic whim possessed me that I should have made the purchase of the engraving... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - 1880 - 394 pages
...: My breath to heaven like vapor goes: May my soul follow soon ! The shadows of the convent-towers Slant down the snowy sward, Still creeping with the...first snowdrop of the year That in my bosom lies. As this pale taper's earthly spark, To yonder argent round; So shows my soul before the Lamb, My spirit... | |
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