| M. A. H. - 1849 - 160 pages
...oftentimes celestial benedictions We see but dimly through the mists and vapors ; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers May be heaven's...so is transition; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death. She is not dead, — the child of oar affection,... | |
| John Seely Hart - 1849 - 934 pages
...We see but dimly through the mista and vapours; Amid these earthly damps What seera to us but dim, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps. There...is transition ; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death. She ie not dead— the child of our affectionBut... | |
| 1849 - 620 pages
...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 lamps. There...so is transition; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life Elysian, Whose portals we call Death. She is not dead — the child of our affection... | |
| 1849 - 742 pages
...disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vapors ; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but dim funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps. There...is transition ; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death. She is not dead — the child of our affection... | |
| 1856 - 1270 pages
...but dimly through the mists and vapours, Amid these earthly damps, What seem to us but sad, funeral tapers May be heaven's distant lamps. There is no...is transition ; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life Elysian, Whose portal, we call death. She is not dead, — the child of our affection,... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 476 pages
...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 May be heaven's...is transition ; This life of mortal 'breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death. She is not dead, — the child of our affection,... | |
| Jabez Burns - 1850 - 240 pages
...We see but dimly through the mists and vapors, Amid these earthly damps ; What seem to us, but dim, funereal tapers, May be Heaven's distant lamps. There...is transition ; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call death. She is not dead — the child of our affection... | |
| George Burgess - 1850 - 348 pages
...sake the Son of man; and so, He abolished death. XLV. in leath t|rrough the Imth of Christ " There is no death: what seems so is transition ; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call death." LONGFELLOW. THE language of the Scriptures,... | |
| 1879 - 442 pages
..."rest remaining for j sacramental experience is an onward and the people of God." For them " There is no death: what seems so is transition ; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life Elysian, Whose portals we call death." This hope we hare not by nature, but by... | |
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