 True is it that Death's face seems stern and cold, When he is sent to summon those we love, But all God's angels come to us disguised ; Sorrow and sickness, poverty and death, One after other lift their frowning masks, And we behold the seraph's face...  Annals of the Grand Lodge of Iowa - Pagina iidi Freemasons. Grand Lodge of Iowa - 1901Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | 1844 - 648 pagine
...thitherward, but floats from bloom to bloom, With earth's warm patch of sunshine well content : 'Tis sorrow builds the shining ladder up Whose golden rounds...and cold, When he is sent to summon those we love, But all God's angels come to us disguised ; Sorrow and sickness, poverty and death, One after other... | |
 | 1844 - 638 pagine
...thitherward, but floats from bloom to bloom, With earth's warm patch of sunshine well content : 'Tis sorrow builds the shining ladder up Whose golden rounds...and cold, When he is sent to summon those we love, But all God's angels come to us disguised ; Sorrow and sickness, poverty and death, One after other... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1848 - 210 pagine
...thitherward, but floats from bloom to bloom, With earth's warm patfh of sunshine well content: 10 'T is sorrow builds the shining ladder up, Whose golden...and cold, When he is sent to summon those we love, But all God's angels come to us disguised; Sorrow and sickness, poverty and death, One after other... | |
 | 1908 - 676 pagine
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 | 1877 - 668 pagine
...seems to have been indebted to both St. Augustine and Tennyson in the following lines : — " 'Tis sorrow builds the shining ladder up, Whose golden rounds are our calamities, Whereon our feet firm planting, nearer God The spirit climbs, and hath its eyes unseal'd." In poem xxix. a seasonable... | |
 | Walter Aimwell - 1858 - 262 pagine
...thitherward, but floats from bloom to bloom, With earth's warm patch of sunshine well content: 'T is sorrow builds the shining ladder up, Whose golden...and cold, When he is sent to summon those we love, But all God's angels come to us disguised ; Sorrow and sickness, poverty and death, One after other... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1857 - 334 pagine
...thitherward, but floats from bloom to bloom, With earth's warm patch of sunshine well content : 'Tis sorrow builds the shining ladder up, Whose golden...and cold, When he is sent to summon those we love, But all God's angels come to us disguised ; Sorrow and sickness, poverty and death, One after other... | |
 | 1858 - 240 pagine
...thitherward, but floats from bloom to bloom, With earth's warm patch of sunshine well content : 'Tis SOITOW builds the shining ladder up, Whose golden rounds...and cold, When he is sent to summon those we love, But all God's angels come to us disguised ; Sorrow and sickness, poverty and death, One after other... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1858 - 342 pagine
...thitherward, but floats from bloom to bloom, With earth's warm patch of sunshine well content: 'Tis sorrow builds the shining ladder up, Whose golden...unsealed. True is it that Death's face seems stern and told, When he is sent to summon those we love, But all God's angels come to us disguised; Sorrow and... | |
 | John Joseph Halcombe - 1859 - 232 pagine
...conclusive tones of voice naturally adopted when the sense is more or less complete.) Thus:— " 'Tis sorrow" builds the shining ladder up, Whose golden rounds" are our calamities." You cannot injure the sense here however long the voice is suspended at the words " sorrow " and "... | |
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