 | Methodist Episcopal Church - 1857 - 830 pages
...hovering over her, was the following fine sowar, dictated to her brother, one fine Sabbath morning : " How many blessed groups this hour are bending, Through England's primrose meadow-paths, their way Toward spire and tower, 'midst shadowy elms ascending, Whence the sweet chimes proclaim tha hallowed... | |
 | 1843 - 488 pages
...the fevered imagination of the dying poetess, to the gloomy picture drawn by the bard of the Grave. How many blessed groups this hour are bending Through...meadow-paths, their way Towards spire and tower, 'midst shadowy elms ascending, Whence the sweet chimes proclaim the hallow'd day ! The halls from old heroic... | |
 | H. D. - 1843 - 438 pages
...wing of ecstasy upborne, Springs into liberty, and light, and life ! BP. PORT si's. SABBATH SONNET. How many blessed groups this hour are bending, Through England's primrose meadow-paths, their way Toward spire and tower, 'midst shadowy elms ascending. Whence the sweet chimes proclaim the hallow'd... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - English poetry - 1845 - 382 pages
...SABBATH SONNET. , COMPOSED BY MRS. HEMANS A FEW DAYS BEFORE HER DEATH, AND DEDICATED TO HER BROTHER. How many blessed groups this hour are bending, Through...meadow-paths, their way Towards spire and tower, 'midst shadowy elms ascending, Whence the sweet chimes proclaim the hallow'd day ! The halls from old heroic... | |
 | 1845 - 440 pages
...Sabbath Sonnet,' which will be read and remembered as long &> her name is loved and cherished : — How many blessed groups this hour are bending, Through England's primrose meadow-paths, thrir way Toward spire and tower, midst shadowy elms ascending, Whence the sweet chimes proclaim the... | |
 | Erskine Neale - Death - 1848 - 478 pages
...the last strain P of the " sweet singer," whose harp was henceforth to be hung upon the willows. " How many blessed groups this hour are bending, Through England's primrose meadow-paths, their way Toward spire and tower, 'midst shadowy elms ascending, Whence the sweat chimes proclaim the hallow'd... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans - 1849 - 420 pages
...heaven through this low world obscure. 33* SABBATH SONNET. COMPOSED BY MRS. HEMANS A FEW DAYS BEFORE How many blessed groups this hour are bending, Through...meadow-paths, their way Towards spire and tower, 'midst shadowy elms ascending, Whence the sweet chimes proclaim the hallow'd day ! The halls from old heroic... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - Christian poetry, English - 1850 - 282 pages
...obscure. SABBATH SONNET COMPOSED BY MRS HEMANS A FEW DAYS BEFORE HER DEATH, AND DEDICATED TO HER BROTHER. How many blessed groups this hour are bending, Through...meadow-paths, their way Towards spire and tower, midst shadowy elms ascending, Whence the sweet chimes proclaim the hallowed day! The halls from old heroic... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans - 1850 - 418 pages
...SABBATH SONNET. COKFOSED BY MRS. HEMANS A FEW DAYS BEFORE HER DEATH, AND DEDICATED TO HER BROTHER. How many blessed groups this hour are bending, Through...meadow-paths, their way Towards spire and tower, 'midst shadowy elms ascending, Whence the sweet chimes proclaim the hallow'd day ! The halls from old heroic... | |
 | 1850 - 682 pages
...What a blessing ?— Every means of approximation to Him. Adam's Private Thoughts. SABBATH SONNET.» How many blessed groups this hour are bending. Through England's primrose meadow-paths. their way Toward spire and tower, 'midst shadowy elms ascending, Whence the sweet chimes proclaim the hallow'«!... | |
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midst shadowy elms ascending, Whence the sweet chimes proclaim the hallow'd day ! The halls from old heroic ages grey Pour their fair children forth ; and hamlets low, With whose thick orchard-blooms the soft winds play, Send out their inmates in a happy... 
