The Remembrancer: Or, Fragments for Leisure Hours ...T. Ellwood Chapman, 1841 - 216 páginas Collection of essays and poems that provide children with spiritual and moral guidance. |
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... shalt be ! Glorious ! Great ! Light - giving , life - sustaining Potentate ! Thy chains the unmeasured universe surround : Upheld by Thee , by Thee inspired with breath ! Thou the beginning with the end hast bound , And beautifully ...
... shalt be ! Glorious ! Great ! Light - giving , life - sustaining Potentate ! Thy chains the unmeasured universe surround : Upheld by Thee , by Thee inspired with breath ! Thou the beginning with the end hast bound , And beautifully ...
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... Shalt thou retire alone - nor couldst thou wish Couch more magnificent . Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world ; with kings , The powerful of the earth ; the wise , the good ; Fair forms , and hoary seers of ages past ...
... Shalt thou retire alone - nor couldst thou wish Couch more magnificent . Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world ; with kings , The powerful of the earth ; the wise , the good ; Fair forms , and hoary seers of ages past ...
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... shalt thou rest ; and what if thou shalt fall Unnoticed by the living , and no friend Take note of thy departure ? All that breathe Will share thy destiny . The gay will laugh When thou art gone , the solemn brood of care Plod on , and ...
... shalt thou rest ; and what if thou shalt fall Unnoticed by the living , and no friend Take note of thy departure ? All that breathe Will share thy destiny . The gay will laugh When thou art gone , the solemn brood of care Plod on , and ...
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... shalt thou find a summer home , and rest And scream among thy fellows ; reeds shall bend Soon o'er thy sheltered nest . Thou'rt gone ; the abyss of heaven Hath swallowed up thy form ; yet on my heart Deeply hath sunk the lesson thou ...
... shalt thou find a summer home , and rest And scream among thy fellows ; reeds shall bend Soon o'er thy sheltered nest . Thou'rt gone ; the abyss of heaven Hath swallowed up thy form ; yet on my heart Deeply hath sunk the lesson thou ...
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... thee ; And when death's gath'ring shades in gloom Shall veil thy sight from nature's bloom , Thou shalt awake , to ask no more Where soul may rest or spirit soar . Whate'er in nature thou may'st see , Of flow'ring shrub 151 To Edward,
... thee ; And when death's gath'ring shades in gloom Shall veil thy sight from nature's bloom , Thou shalt awake , to ask no more Where soul may rest or spirit soar . Whate'er in nature thou may'st see , Of flow'ring shrub 151 To Edward,
Palavras e frases frequentes
action affections beauty beneath benevolence bless bravery breath bright bright Eyes brow call that mind calm Cambray cerned character Christian clouds dark DAYSTARS death deep Deity desire Divine duty earth Edom ELLWOOD CHAPMAN eternal fame fear Fenelon flowers gift glory golden sun habits hand happiness harmony hath heaven heavenly holy hope hour human humble HYMN impression influence inquire John Woolman Juvenile Books Lake Superior light live Lord mental mighty mind free moral constitution moral feelings mountain mourn nature Neath ness never o'er ocean passed passions peace perfect Petra Pictured Rocks Poems praise presence principle pure purify rest rising rock seek self-love shade shalt shine silent worship smile solemn soul spirit sublime sweet tears tempest temple thee thine things Thou art thou hast thoughts tion truth virtue voice waves wild WILLIAM PENN wing wonders
Passagens conhecidas
Página 30 - Of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall, And breathless darkness, and the narrow house, Make thee to shudder and grow sick at heart, Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings, while from all around — Earth, and her waters, and the depths of air — Comes a still voice...
Página 66 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way...
Página 30 - TO him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Página 31 - Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again, And, lost each human trace, surrendering up Thine individual being, shalt thou go To mix forever with the elements, To be a brother to the insensible rock And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain Turns with his share and treads upon. The oak Shall send his roots abroad and pierce thy mould.
Página 33 - So live, that when thy summons comes, to join The innumerable caravan, that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon; but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Página 66 - There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast — The desert and illimitable air — Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere, Yet stoop not weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near.
Página 129 - And now behold, I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there : 23 Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying, that bonds and afflictions abide me.
Página 82 - As one who, destined from his friends to part, Regrets his loss, but hopes again erewhile To share their converse and enjoy their smile, And tempers as he may affliction's dart; Thus, loved associates, chiefs of elder art, Teachers of wisdom, who could once beguile My tedious hours, and lighten every toil, I now resign you; nor with fainting heart; For pass a few short years, or days, or hours, And happier seasons may their dawn unfold, And all your sacred fellowship restore: When, freed from earth,...
Página 182 - For I have sworn by myself, saith the Lord, that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.
Página 32 - Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings — yet the dead are there ! And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began, have laid them down In their last sleep — the dead reign there alone.