 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
 | G. M. Sterne - 1859 - 302 pages
...CHAPTER XIII. " Let us be patient ; these severe afflictions, Not from the ground arise ; But often times celestial benedictions, Assume this dark disguise. " We see but dimly through the mists and vapours, Amidst these earthly damps ; What seems to us but sad funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant... | |
 | S. R. - 1860 - 306 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,...vapors Amid these earthly damps ; What seem to us but dim funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps. THEEE is NO DEATH; what seems so, is transition,... | |
 | Henry William Dulcken - 1860 - 230 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,...celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. RKStGNATION. 29 We see but dimly through the mists and vapours Amid these earthly damps, What seem... | |
 | England - English poetry - 1860 - 532 pages
...Will not "be comforted ! Let us be patient ! These severe afflictions Not from the ground arise, B\it 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, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant... | |
 | Quotations - 1861 - 356 pages
...And tears that from love's torn heart flow, To pearls of spirit turn. • MASSEY. Let us be patient! these severe afflictions Not from the ground arise,...damps What seem to us but sad funereal tapers, May bo heaven's distant lamps. LONGFELLOW. Our dearest hopes in pangs are born, The kingliest kings are... | |
 | Children in literature - 1861 - 236 pages
...the dead ; The heart of Eachel for her children crying Will not be comforted ! Let us be patient ! these severe afflictions Not from the ground arise...vapors ; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but dim, funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps. There is no death ! what seems so is transition... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1906 - 164 pages
...sorrow, Till the air is dark with anguish. The Song of Hiarwatha JULY TWENTY-FOURTH Let us be patient ! These severe afflictions Not from the ground arise,...celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. Resignation JULY TWENTY-FIFTH We see but dimly through the mists and vapors; Amid these earthly damps,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Calendars - 1906 - 162 pages
...sorrow, Till the air is dark with anguish. The Song of Hiawatha JULY TWENTY-FOURTH Let us be patient ! These severe afflictions Not from the ground arise,...celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. Resignation JULY TWENTY-FIFTH We see but dimly through the mists and vapors ; Amid these earthly damps,... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - English literature - 1906 - 764 pages
...sister singers. ennobled her character. She experienced and believed, what another poet has said: — " These severe afflictions Not from the ground arise,...celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise." Suffering gave depth of insight and emotion to her song. But better than her poetry, with all its excellence,... | |
 | Poetry - 1906 - 528 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,...celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. 55 We see but dimly through the mists and vapors ; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad,... | |
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