 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...  Poems - Page 342by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850Full view - About this book
 | Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - American poetry - 1858 - 644 pages
...farewells to the dying, And mournings for the dead ; The heart of Rachel, for her children crying, Let us be patient! These severe afflictions Not from...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 - 282 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...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
...mournings for the dead ; The heart of Bachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted ! Let ui be patient ! these severe afflictions Not from the...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... | |
 | 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 - 642 pages
...farewells to the dying, And mournings for the dead ; The heart of Rachel, for her children crying, Let us be patient! These severe afflictions Not from...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,... | |
 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 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 the ground arise, But oftentimes celestial benediction.} Assume this dark disguise. She is not dead — the child of our affection ; But gone... | |
 | Francis Wharton - History - 1859 - 396 pages
...dead ; The heart of Rachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted. * World of Mind, p. 316. Let us be patient ! these severe afflictions Not from...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... | |
 | John Cumming - Bible - 1859 - 354 pages
...served only to make the shock at length more dreadful and disastrous ? She did uot see all the way. " Let us be patient, these severe afflictions, Not from...dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vapours, Amid these earthly damps, What seems to us but sad funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant... | |
 | Light - Hymns, English - 1859 - 186 pages
...dying 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...dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vapours, Amid these earthly damps ; What seem to us but dim funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1859 - 120 pages
...And mournings for the dead ; The heart of Rachel,1 for her children crying, Will not be comforted ! Let us be patient ! These severe afflictions Not from...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... | |
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