 Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play ! Who hath not learned, in hours of faith, The truth to flesh and sense unknown, That Life is ever lord of Death, And Love can never lose its own...  Poetical Works - Page 353by John Greenleaf Whittier - 1878Full view - About this book
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - American literature - 1893 - 990 pages
...the pages of that poem with blessed tears. They know. It is the comfort offered to the broken heart: The truth, to flesh and sense unknown, That Life is...lord of Death, • And Love can never lose its own. Who else has gone down with us as he has gone into the Valley of the Shadow ? Expression falters, even... | |
 | L. G. - Canada - 1870 - 148 pages
...comes, too, the "hours of faith," that have taught her ; that are still repeating, in loving tones — " The truth to flesh and sense unknown, That life is...ever lord of death, And love can never lose its own ! " At last the trusty ship lands her " homeward bound" passengers at Montreal, and Mr Grey is again... | |
 | Phrenology - 1870 - 936 pages
...Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to sec the breaking day Across the monniful mnrhlcs piny; Who hath not learned, in hours of faith. The truth to flesh and sense unknown, That life is over lord of death. And love can never lose its own. — CREDIT то WHOM CKEDIT is DUE. — The Family... | |
 | American poetry - 1871 - 210 pages
...somehow somewhere meet we must. Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees! Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see...ever Lord of Death, And love can never lose its own ! JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER. LAKV.E. MY little maiden of four years old (No myth but a genuine child... | |
 | Religion - 1871 - 360 pages
...balances. Rev. A. UTElrty Wylit. ALAS for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees ! Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see...ever lord of death, And love can never lose its own. Wkittitr. LIKE snow that falls where waters glide, Earth's pleasures fade away ; They melt in time's... | |
 | G. L. - Children's stories, Canadian - 1871 - 138 pages
...too, the " hours of faith," that have taught her ; that are still repeating, in loving tones — " The truth to flesh and sense unknown, That life is...ever lord of death, And love can never lose its own ! " passengers at Montreal, and Mr Grey is again upon Ids native soil, and breathing the pure Canadian... | |
 | Alfred I. Holmes - 1873 - 354 pages
...balances. Rev. A. M^Elroy Wy2ie. ALAS for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees ! Who, hopeless, lays his dead away. Nor looks to see...ever lord of death, And love can never lose its own. WJiittier* T IKE snow that falls where waters glide, J—* Earth's pleasures fade away ; They melt... | |
 | Samuel Wordsworth Bailey - Bible - 1874 - 732 pages
...and I will come again. And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear. Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through...ever lord of Death, And Love can never lose its own ! And Joseph went up to bury his father, and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1874 - 500 pages
...somewhere, meet we trust, must. Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypresstrees ! Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see...marbles play ! Who hath not learned, in hours of faith, And Love can never lose its own ! We sped the time with stones old, Wrought puzzles out, and riddles... | |
 | New York State Bar Association - Judges - 1874 - 134 pages
...eternally beyond the grave. " Alas ! for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress trees ! Who hopeless lays his dead away, Nor looks to see...breaking day Across the mournful marbles play ! Who has not learned in hours of faith That truth to flesh and sense unknown — That life is ever lord... | |
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