 Count each affliction, whether light or grave, God's messenger sent down to thee ; do thou With courtesy receive him ; rise and bow ; And, ere his shadow pass thy threshold, crave Permission first his heavenly feet to lave ; Then lay before him all thou...  The Story of a Mother-love - Σελίδα 262των Annette Fitch Brewer - 1913 - 285 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | 1864 - 998 σελίδες
...touches are a very different strain, a sermon confew and light, but distinct and densed in a sonnet: — Count each affliction, whether light or grave, God's...shadow pass thy threshold, crave Permission first his\heavenly feet to lave, — Then lay before him all thou hast ; allow No cloud of passion to ursurp... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 σελίδες
...eyes — If but a moment on my cheek it stays I know that gentle beam from all the rest! AFFLICTION. COUNT each affliction, whether light or grave, God's...to obliterate The soul's marmoreal calmness. Grief should be Like joy, majestic, equable, sedate; Continuing, cleansing, raising, making free; Strong... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1896 - 600 σελίδες
...is very characteristic of the refinement, the grave wisdom, the stateliness of his mind. SORROW. ' Count each affliction, whether light or grave, God's...to obliterate The soul's marmoreal calmness ; grief should be Like joy, majet>tic, equable, sedate ; Confirming, cleansing, raising, making free ; Strong... | |
 | Aubrey De Vere (calling himself earl of Oxford.) - 1842 - 334 σελίδες
...across the threshold ; dares not tread The space within devote to God and to the dead. LXI. Sorroto. COUNT each affliction, whether light or grave, God's...to obliterate The soul's marmoreal calmness. Grief should be Like joy, majestic, equable, sedate : Confirming, cleansing, raising, making free ; Strong... | |
 | Aubrey De Vere - 1842 - 338 σελίδες
...not across the threshold ; dares not tread The space within devote to God and to the dead. Jbomto. COUNT each affliction, whether light or grave, God's...to obliterate The soul's marmoreal calmness. Grief should be Like joy, majestic, equable, sedate : Confirming, cleansing, raising, making free ; Strong... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1843 - 632 σελίδες
...sonnets with one entitled ' Sorrow,' breathing a very full and noble strain of moral exhortation : — ' Count each affliction, whether light or grave, God's...to obliterate The soul's marmoreal calmness. Grief should be, Like joy, majestic, equable, sedate ; Confirming, cleansing, raising, making free ; Strong... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1843 - 714 σελίδες
...sonnets with one entitled ' Sorrow,' breathing a very full and noble strain of moral exhortation : — ' Count each affliction, whether light or grave, God's...thou With courtesy receive him : rise and bow ; And And ere his shadow pass thy threshold, crave Permission first his heavenly feet to lave. Then lay before... | |
 | 1904 - 926 σελίδες
...his admirers, but we quote it because those admirers are not nearly so many as they ought to be:— Count each affliction, whether light or grave, God's...hast. Allow No cloud of passion to usurp thy brow, Confirming, cleansing, raising, making Or mar thy hospitality, no wave Of moral tumult to obliterate... | |
 | 1845 - 328 σελίδες
...long line of descendants by his first born son, William. Ipswich, Mast. SORROW. BY AOBREV DE VERB. COUNT each affliction, whether light or grave, God's messenger sent down to thee. Do then With courtesy receive him : rise and bow : And ere his shadow pass thy threshold, crave Permission... | |
 | Hannah J. Woodman - 1846 - 226 σελίδες
...fashion, And its bounding hopes control ; Pray that no unhallowed passion Soil the ermine of thy soul. Count each affliction, whether light or grave, God's...no wave Of mortal tumult to obliterate The soul's marmorial calmness. Grief should be Like joy, majestic, equable, sedate ; Confirming,, cleansing, raising,... | |
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