| 1870 - 462 páginas
...and high Humility! High as the heavens above! These are your walks, and you have showed them me, 15 To kindle my cold love. Dear, beauteous Death; the...in the dark; What mysteries do lie beyond thy dust, He that hath found some fledged bird's nest may know, At first sight, if the bird be flown; But what... | |
| Eliza Woodson Farnham - 1870 - 360 páginas
...them, but listen to their wondrous beauty and crystal clearness : " ' Dear, beauteous Death — thou jewel of the just, Shining nowhere but in the dark ! What mysteries do lie beyond thy dust, Could we outlook that mark.' " How the low- spoken words thrilled me, and the spiritual glow of her dark... | |
| Henry Vaughan - 1871 - 418 páginas
...arc at best but dull and hoary, Meer glimeripg and decays. These arc your walks, and yon have shevv'd them me, To kindle my cold love. Dear, beauteous Death ! the jewel of the just, Shining no where, but in the dark ; What mysteries do lie beyond thy dust ; Could man outlook that mark ! He... | |
| Henry Vaughan - 1871 - 420 páginas
...them me, 'J'o kindle my eold love. Dear, beauteous Death ! the jewel of the just, Shining no where, but in the dark ; What mysteries do lie beyond thy dust ; Could man outlook that murk ! He that hath found some fledg'd bird's nest, may know At first sight, if the bird be flown ;... | |
| Henry Vaughan - 1871 - 328 páginas
...holy hope ! and high humility ! High as the heavens above ! These are your walks, and you have shew'd them me To kindle my cold love. Dear, beauteous death ; the jewel of the just I Shining nowhere but in the dark ; What mysteries do lie beyond thy dust, Could man outlook that mark... | |
| Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1872 - 526 páginas
...his sacrifices, — that touch of the great Masterwhich completes the picture."— MADAME SWKTCHINE. "Dear, beauteous Death, the jewel of the just, Shining...lie beyond thy dust ; Could man outlook that mark ! " HENRY VAUGHAN, 1690. the 23rd October, the Augustus and Marcus Hares embarked together at Southampton... | |
| William Henry Davenport Adams - 1872 - 396 páginas
...We may be reminded here of the fine thought of Henry Vaughan (born 1621, died 1695) ; — o iA 8 " Dear, beauteous death — the jewel of the just, Shining...do lie beyond thy dust, Could man outlook that mark ! " HIGH IS THE ROOF THERE, BUT THE GATE IS LOW." — HERRICK. "THOSE SMALLEST THINGS OF NATURE LET... | |
| Mottoes - 1872 - 186 páginas
...So steer across the sea of life, As not to miss the port of heaven. ' Tombstone in a Danish island. Dear beauteous death, the jewel of the just, Shining...dark, What mysteries do lie beyond thy dust, Could men outlook that mark ! H. Vaughan. One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And death shall be no... | |
| Louis Coutier Biggs - 1873 - 160 páginas
...holy Hope, and high Humility ! High as the heavens above ! These are your walks, and you have shew'd them me, To kindle my cold love. ' Dear, beauteous...nowhere but in the dark ; What mysteries do lie beyond the dust, Could man outlook that mark ! ' He that hath found some fledg'd bird's nest may know At first... | |
| Louis Coutier Biggs - 1873 - 152 páginas
...holy Hope, and high Humility! High as the heavens above ! These are your walks, and you have shew'd them me, To kindle my cold love. ' Dear, beauteous...nowhere but in the dark ; What mysteries do lie beyond the dust, Could man outlook that mark ! ' He that hath found some fledged bird's nest may know At first... | |
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