 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1859 - 724 pages
...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...great cloister's stillness and seclusion, By guardian angel's led, Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution, She lives, whom we call dead. Day after... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1859 - 120 pages
...Death ! What seems so is transition ; Tiiis life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life Elysian,2 Whose portal we call death. She is not dead, — the...Safe from temptation, safe 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 ;... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1859 - 362 pages
...Death ! What seems so is transition ; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life Elysian,2 Whose portal we call death. She is not dead, — the...Safe from temptation, safe 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 ;... | |
 | HENRY HOWE - 1859 - 748 pages
...Mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysiau, Whose portal we call Death. She is not dead—the child of our affection— But gone unto that school...Safe from temptation, safe 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;... | |
 | Joseph Barlow Robinson - 1859 - 220 pages
...yoice inspiring joy, not fear, Says, pointing upward, " Know, he is not here." SAMUEL ROGEUS. 695. She is not dead — the child of our affection, But...our poor protection, And Christ himself doth rule. LONGFELLOW. 696. Immortal spirit, hear and soar ! The angels wave their golden wings. And strike the... | |
 | Light - 1859 - 186 pages
...What seem to us but dim funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps. There is no death! what seems so is transition ; This life of mortal breath Is but...life Elysian, Whose portal we call death. She is not dead—the child of our affection— But gone unto that school Where she no longer needs our poor protection,... | |
 | England - 1860 - 532 pages
...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...school Where she no longer needs our poor protection, As Christ himself doth rule. In that great cloister's stillness and seclusion. By guardian angels led,... | |
 | Henry William Dulcken - 1860 - 230 pages
...but sad funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps. 30 RESIGNATION. There is no death ! What seems so is transition ; This life of mortal breath Is but...school Where she no longer needs our poor protection, As Christ himself doth rule. In that great cloister's stillness and seclusion, By guardian angels led,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1860 - 468 pages
...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...school Where she no longer needs our poor protection, la that great cloister's stillness and seclusion, By guardian angels led, Safe from temptation, safe... | |
 | S. R. - 1860 - 306 pages
...Elysian, Whose portals we call death. She is not dead — the child of our affection — But gone into that school, Where she no longer needs our poor protection,...Safe from temptation, safe 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,... | |
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Whose portal we call Death. She is not dead — the child of our affection — But gone unto that school Where she no longer needs our poor protection, And Christ himself doth rule. 
