 | Henry Coppée - 1866 - 284 pages
...And mournings for the dead ; The heart of Rachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted ! Let us be patient ! These severe afflictions Not from...from sin's pollution, She lives, whom we call dead. 38 Day after day we think what she is doing In those bright realms of air ; Year after year, her tender... | |
 | Words - 1866 - 368 pages
...oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vapours Amid these earthly damps ; What seem to us but sad,...from sin's pollution, She lives, whom we call dead. Not as a child shall we again behold her, For when with raptures wild In our embraces we again enfold... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1866 - 436 pages
...celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vapours ; Amid these earthly damps, What seem to us but sad,...from sin's pollution, She lives whom we call dead. Day after day, we think what she is doing In those bright realms of air : Year after year, her tender... | |
 | Matthew Hale Smith - 1866 - 408 pages
...In death, as in life, we may become as little children, and so be sure of the kingdom of heaven. " She is not dead, the child of our affection — But...from sin's pollution, She lives whom we call dead." XXXVI.— NAZARETH; OR, THE HOME OF THE CHILD JESUS. " Jesus, who reigns above the sky, And keeps the... | |
 | 1866 - 522 pages
...afflictions Not from the ground arise. But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. She is not dead, the child of our affection, But gone...from sin's pollution, She lives, whom we call dead. Not as a child shall we again behold her; For when with raptures wild In our embraces we again enfold... | |
 | Frank Townsend Southwick - 1900 - 472 pages
...tended, But one dead lamb is there ! There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair. Let us be patient ! These severe afflictions Not from...our poor protection, And Christ himself doth rule. Not as a child shall we again behold her ; For when with raptures wild In our embraces we again enfold... | |
 | 1900 - 374 pages
...transition ; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death. 25 But gone unto that school Where she no longer needs...from sin's pollution, She lives, whom we call dead. Day after day we think what she is doing In those bright realms of air ; Year after year, her tender... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1901 - 472 pages
...Rachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted ! Let us be patient ! afflictions These severe Not from the ground arise, But oftentimes celestial...from sin's pollution, She lives, whom we call dead. Day after day we ihink what she is doing In those bright realms of air; Year after year, her tender... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1901 - 484 pages
...Rachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted ! Let us be patient ! afflictions These seve~ Not from the ground arise, But oftentimes celestial...from sin's pollution, She lives, whom we call dead. Day after day we think what she is doing In those bright realms of air ; Year after year, her tender... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1901 - 488 pages
...for the dead; The heart of Rachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted ! These sevc been, Not from the ground arise, But oftentimes celestial...from sin's pollution. She lives, whom we call dead. Day after day we think what she is In those bright realms of air ; Year after year, her tender steps... | |
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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... 
