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
| Frances Elizabeth Willard - Christian women - 1886 - 296 pages
...lighted faces smile no more. 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'S " Snow Bound." TWENTY-THREE years, almost two of them made up wholly of months of June,... | |
| Sarah Hutchins Killikelly - Allusions - 1886 - 530 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 ! " The interest deepens as the home scenes are unfolded, — the share each has in the winter tale,... | |
| Sarah Hutchins Killikelly - Allusions - 1886 - 420 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! " The interest deepens as the home scenes are unfolded,— the share each has in the winter tale, —... | |
| Hymns, English - 1886 - 216 pages
...THE PORTAL OF THE GRAVE. I. 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. II. So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan which moves To that mysterious... | |
| Funeral service - 1886 - 302 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...and sense unknown, That Life is ever Lord of Death, Ami Love can never lose its own ! — Whittier. If this life is all, there is no place for such a faculty... | |
| William Stephen Rainsford - Sermons, English - 1887 - 228 pages
...his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play ; Who has not felt in hours of faith, The truth to flesh and sense unknown,...ever Lord of Death, And Love can never lose its own I No, not for an hour can Love lose its own. So Jesus would teach Martha, and so He would teach us.... | |
| William Stephen Rainsford - Sermons, English - 1887 - 236 pages
...subject to this bondage ! " 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 felt in hours of faith, The truth to flesh and sense unknown, That Life is ever Lord of Death,... | |
| Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 pages
...the sun they cast no shade, No voice is heard, no sign is made, No step is on the conscious floor! Yet Love will dream, and Faith will trust, (Since...Across the mournful marbles play! Who hath not learned, iu hours of faith, The truth to flesh and sense unknown, That Life is ever lord of Death, THE MOTHER.... | |
| Charles Francis Richardson - American literature - 1888 - 1044 pages
...somehow, somewhere, meet we must Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees J Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see...ever lord of Death, And Love can never lose its own ! There is naught of unkindness or injustice in saying that Whittier as poet is not great but good,... | |
| James Henry Potts - Apologetics - 1888 - 562 pages
...inspiration to go up higher." "Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress trees 1 Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see...ever lord of death, And love can never lose its own !" (JG Whittier.) IMMORTALITY INDICATED BY EXPERIENCE. The desire for immortality is universal. Were... | |
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