 Let us be patient ! These severe afflictions Not from the ground arise, But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. . We see but dimly through the mists and vapors Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers...  The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Page 354by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1857 - 400 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1857 - 1824 pages
...us conclude with a few verses of lofty precepts and tender consolation : — " Let us be patient ! These severe afflictions Not from the ground arise,...benedictions Assume this dark disguise. " We see but dimly thro* the mist and vapours, And these earthly damps; What seem to as but funeral Upers May be heaven's... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1857 - 1070 pages
...own daughter. CHAPTER XX. " Lot us be patient. These severe afflictions Not from the ground arlse, But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. " We see but dimly through the inists and vapours, Amid these earthly damps ; What seem to us but sad funereal tapers, Hay be heaven's... | |
 | John Cumming - 1858 - 628 pages
...the dead ; The heart of Rachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted. " Let us be patient. These severe afflictions Not from the ground arise...damps ; What seem to us but sad funereal tapers May he heaven's distant lamps. ' There is no death. What seems so is transition ; This life of mortal breath... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - Children - 1858 - 336 pages
...for her children crying, Will not be comforted ! * Stones of Venice. f Whittier. Let us be patient I these severe afflictions Not from the ground arise,...dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vapours ; Amid these earthly damps, What seem to us but sad funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - American poetry - 1858 - 644 pages
...dying, And mournings for the dead ; The heart of Rachel, for her children crying, Let us be patient! These severe afflictions Not from the ground arise,...dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vapour-. Amid these earthly damps ; What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant... | |
 | Walter Aimwell - Children - 1858 - 262 pages
...the dead : The heart of Rachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted ! Let us be patient ! These severe afflictions Not from the ground arise,...Assume this dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mist and vapors ; Amid these earthly damps, What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers, May be heaven's... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - Children - 1858 - 328 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 funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps. He is not dead, — the child of our affection,— But gone unto that school Where he no longer needs... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - American poetry - 1858 - 642 pages
...dying, And mournings for the dead ; The heart of Rachel, for her children crying, Let us be patient! These severe afflictions Not from the ground arise, But oftentimes celestial benedictions We see but dimly through the mists and vapours, Amid these earthly damps ; What seem to us but sad,... | |
 | Francis Wharton - History - 1859 - 410 pages
...Rachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted. * World of Mind, p. 316. Let us be patient ! these severe afflictions Not from the ground arise....sad, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps. Far different is the conf1dence of the Christian : — I KNOW, is all the mourner saith, Knowledge... | |
 | Francis Wharton - Skepticism - 1859 - 410 pages
...patient! these severe afflictions Not from the ground arise. But oftentimes celestial benedictiqns Assume this dark disguise. We see but dimly through...sad, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps. Far different is the confidence of the Christian :— I KNOW, is all the mourner saith, Knowledge by... | |
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