 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
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - American poetry - 1879 - 480 pages
...somewhere, meet we must. Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees I 205 Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see...the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play I Who hath not learned, in hours of faith, The truth to flesh and sense unknown, 2I0 That Life is ever... | |
 | Lucy Larcom - American poetry - 1879 - 146 pages
...some ray to soften the gloom : Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through the cypress-trees! Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see...the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play ! Returning from reveries too somber, there is cheer in the mild illumination of moonlight, which infolds... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - American poetry - 1879 - 474 pages
...through his cy press-trees ! 205 Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Across the mournful .marbles play I " Who hath not learned, in hours of faith, The truth to flesh and sense unknown, 210 That Life is ever lord of Death, And Love can never lose its own! We sped the time with stories... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - American poetry - 1879 - 596 pages
...through his cypress-trees! 20J Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Across the mournful marbles play I Who hath not learned, in hours of faith, The truth to flesh and sense unknown, 210 That Life is ever lord of Death, And Love can never lose its own! f We sped the time with stories... | |
 | Sermons, American - 1887 - 626 pages
...they love, this truth has a world of comfort. Clasp to your hearts the faith that Whittier sings, — "That Life is ever Lord of Death, And Love can never lose its own." So, O poor, bound souls, hungry and thirsty but hindered lives, take courage ! Whether the hindrance... | |
 | Sermons, American - 1889 - 690 pages
...need, shall be found again. I believe there is nothing truer than those brave, sweet words of Whittier that " Life is ever lord of death, And love can never lose its own." Bryant, in expressing his unquestioning faith in immortality, beautifully embodies the same thought... | |
 | Sermons, American - 1888 - 658 pages
...Christianity, older perhaps than any scripture, older than any organized religion of the world. For this hope that " Life is ever Lord of Death, And Love can never lose its own," is older than any religion. It is a flower born of human love, and watered by the tears that have been... | |
 | American literature - 1880 - 208 pages
...XXIII. , —William Cowper. 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! — Whittier: ' 'Snow-Bound." XXIV. THERE is no substitute for thorough-going, ardent, sincere earnestness.... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1880 - 242 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! ath'lete, a gymnast. di-vine ' , predict. doff, put off. hordes, wandering tribes. in'no-cent of, ignorant... | |
 | Unitarian Universalist churches - 1880 - 138 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. Whittitr. ANOTHER hand is beckoning us, Another call is given ; And glows once more with angel-steps... | |
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