 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
 | Jeremiah Lewis Diman - 1881 - 442 pages
...moon ; My heart 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...That lead me to my Lord. 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." Yet such... | |
 | Jeremiah Lewis Diman - 1881 - 446 pages
...Still creeping with the creeping hours That lead me to my Lord. 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." Yet such yearning of passionate affection that embraces Christ with almost the warmth of a natural... | |
 | Public schoolboy - 1881 - 110 pages
...be clean : wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow " (Pa. li. 7). " As these white robes are soiled and dark To yonder shining ground, As this pale taper's earthly spark To yonder agent round, So shows my soul before the Lamb, My spirit before Thee, So in my earthly home I am To... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1881 - 422 pages
...expressed in more refined and chastened language by our own living Laureate in his poem on St. Agnes : — Make thou my spirit pure and clear As are the frosty skies; or in the yet sublimer invocation of Milton to Him who prefers Before all temples the upright heart and... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1881 - 382 pages
...more refined and chastened language by our own living Laureate in his poem on St. Agnes : — Mnke thou my spirit pure and clear As are the frosty skies ; or in the yet sublimer invocation of Milton to Him who prefers Before all temples the upright heart and... | |
 | Holy thoughts - 1882 - 744 pages
...the meaning of the "white robes" which the saints wear in glory. — BEECHER. Purity. — Seeking for As these white robes are soil'd and dark To yonder...yonder argent round ; So shows my soul before the I<ainli, My spirit before Thee ; So in mine earthly house I am, To that I hope to be : Break up the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1882 - 656 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...Make Thou my spirit pure and clear As are the frosty sktes, Or this first snowdrop of the year That in my bosom lies. As these white robes are soil'd and... | |
 | Bayard Taylor - 1883 - 998 pages
...homeward alone, along the echoing pavement, I murmured to myself, — " The shadows of the convent-towen Slant down the snowy sward, Still creeping with the creeping hours That lead me to my Lord." I don't know what strange, poetic whim possessed me that I should have made the purchase of the engraving... | |
 | Kate Sanborn - 1884 - 396 pages
...to us to-day than a whole parterre of gayly colored summer favorites will be a few months hence. " MAKE Thou my spirit pure and clear As are the frosty...first snowdrop of the year That in my bosom lies." THOUGH the sun scorches us sometimes, and gives us the headache, we do not refuse to acknowledge that... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1884 - 412 pages
...village maid, I am but as my fortunes are : I am a beggar born," she said, Make Thon my spirit pnre and clear As are the frosty skies, Or this first snowdrop of the year That in my hosom lies. As these white rohes are soiled and dark. To yonder shining gronnd : As this pale taper's... | |
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