| Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 344 páginas
...these earthly damps, What seem to ns but sad funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps. 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. She is not dead, the child of our affection,... | |
| Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1887 - 736 páginas
...father, the good citizen, the true friend, the wise counselor, the impartial judge is dead. Dead ? "There is no death ; what seems so is transition — This life of mortal brenth, Is but lhc suburb of the life Elysian Whose portal we call death." He has crossed the portal... | |
| Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends (1853-1940) - 1891 - 900 páginas
...belief. The Chinese never say that one dies, but that he emigrates ; while our sweet poet sings : "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." Doubt has come in with the exaltation of... | |
| Martha Noyes Williams - 1853 - 290 páginas
...Amid these earthly damps, What seem to us but dim funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps. 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. She is not dead, — the child of our affection,... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853 - 470 páginas
...Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps. 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. She is not dead, — the child of our affection,... | |
| Early dead - 1853 - 122 páginas
...these earthly damps ; What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps. 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. She is not dead, — the child of our affection,... | |
| 1853 - 560 páginas
...these eartbly damps, What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps. 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. She is not dead, — the child of our affection,... | |
| 1853 - 802 páginas
...Amid these earthly damps, What seem to us but dim funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps. There is no death. What seems so is transition; This life of mortal breath b but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portals we call Death. She is not dead — the child of our... | |
| Edwin Davies (D.D.) - 1854 - 154 páginas
...these earthly damps ; What seems to us but sad funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps. There is no death ! What seems so is transition ; This life...of the life elysian, Whose portal we call death." And, yet, knowing as we do that death is but the beginning of a higher form of life, how many Christians... | |
| Francis Parkman - 1854 - 292 páginas
...these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers, Hay be Heaven's distant lamps. 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. She is not dead, — the child of our affection,... | |
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