 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
 | Bayard Taylor - 1879 - 538 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 - 408 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... | |
 | Hugh Reginald Haweis - 1880 - 362 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...first snowdrop of the year That in my bosom lies." The second verse also begins in meditation and ends in prayer, but the last verse rises out of prayer... | |
 | Hugh Reginald Haweis - 1880 - 356 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...first snowdrop of the year That in my bosom lies." The second verse also begins in meditation and ends in prayer, but the last verse rises out of prayer... | |
 | George Frederick L. Bampfield - 1880 - 544 pages
...2nd of February and snow-drops strewed over the vacant place. " Make thou my spirit pure and clean As are the frosty skies, Or this first snow-drop of the year That in my bosom lies." TENNYSON. The yellow Daffodil is a Lenten Lily with its cousins Crocus and Hyacinth. Blue Bells —... | |
 | Iza Duffus Hardy - 1880 - 342 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 creeping hours That lead me to my Lord. As these white robes are soiled and dark To yonder shining ground, As this pale taper's earthly spark... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 pages
...breath to heaven like vapor goes : May my soul follow soon ! 546 547 The shadows of the convent-towers rter & Coates ; AH this pale taper's earthly spark, To yonder argent round ; So »hows my soul before the Lamb, My... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1881 - 502 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 Bonder shining ground ; As this pale taper's earthly spark, To yonder argent round... | |
 | 1881 - 520 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. 336 OUR POETICAL FAVORITES. As these white robes are soiled and dark, To yonder shining ground ; As... | |
 | George Milner - 1881 - 370 pages
...snowwhiteness streaked with pale green ! No wonder it should stand for us as an emblem of unsullied purity :— Make Thou my spirit pure and clear As are the frosty...first snowdrop of the year That in my bosom lies. The sunshine which brought out the snowdrops removed the final remains of our snow-man, for the last... | |
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