 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
 | Days - 1884 - 424 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 skies, Or this first snowdrep of the year, That in my bosom lies. As these white robes are soiled and dark To yonder shining... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1884 - 508 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 ; * Wesley's Ser1naus, vol. iii. p. 424. or in the yet sublimer invocation of Milton to Him who prefers... | |
 | 1885 - 668 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;... | |
 | Oscar Fay Adams - 1885 - 178 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... | |
 | Joseph Hirst Lupton - 1885 - 252 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. RETRANSLATION. Deep on the roof of the sacred temple lies the snow, And sparkles undefiled in the rays... | |
 | Thomas Young Crowell - 1885 - 702 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...spirit pure and clear As are the frosty skies, Or this tirst snowdrop of the year That in my bosom lies. As these white robes are soiled and dark, To yonder... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1885 - 526 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 creeping hours That lead me to my Lord : 'Vfake Thou my spirit pure and clear As are the frosty skies, Or this first snowdrop of the year... | |
 | Snowdrops - 1885 - 226 pages
...The one I was saying to auntie the other day? This is it — ' Make Thou my spirit pure and white, As are the frosty skies, Or this first snowdrop of the year, That in my bosom lies." It will be nice to be quite pure and good, wee Charlie, won't it ?" " Yes, Meg, darling ; but I think... | |
 | C. E. Alexander - 1886 - 346 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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1887 - 508 pages
...sward, Still creeping with the creeping hour* That lead me to my Lord : J i Make Thou my spirit pure end clear As are the frosty skies, Or this first snowdrop...the year That in my bosom lies. As these white robes aro soil'd and darlc, To yonder shining ground , As this pale taper's earthly spark, To yonder argent... | |
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