 True is it that Death's face seems stern and cold, When he is sent to summon those we love, But all God's angels come to us disguised ; Sorrow and sickness, poverty and death, One after other lift their frowning masks, And we behold the seraph's face...  Annals of the Grand Lodge of Iowa - Page iiby Freemasons. Grand Lodge of Iowa - 1901Full view - About this book
 | United States - 1844 - 648 pages
...thitherward, but floats from bloom to bloom, With earth's warm patch of sunshine well content : 'Tis sorrow builds the shining ladder up Whose golden rounds...and cold, When he is sent to summon those we love, But all God's angels come to us disguised ; Sorrow and sickness, poverty and death, One after other... | |
 | United States - 1844 - 638 pages
...thitherward, but floats from bloom to bloom, With earth's warm patch of sunshine well content : 'Tis sorrow builds the shining ladder up Whose golden rounds...and cold, When he is sent to summon those we love, But all God's angels come to us disguised ; Sorrow and sickness, poverty and death, One after other... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1848 - 210 pages
...thitherward, but floats from bloom to bloom, With earth's warm patfh of sunshine well content: 10 'T is sorrow builds the shining ladder up, Whose golden...and cold, When he is sent to summon those we love, But all God's angels come to us disguised; Sorrow and sickness, poverty and death, One after other... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1877 - 668 pages
...seems to have been indebted to both St. Augustine and Tennyson in the following lines : — " 'Tis sorrow builds the shining ladder up, Whose golden rounds are our calamities, Whereon our feet firm planting, nearer God The spirit climbs, and hath its eyes unseal'd." In poem xxix. a seasonable... | |
 | Walter Aimwell - Children - 1858 - 262 pages
...thitherward, but floats from bloom to bloom, With earth's warm patch of sunshine well content: 'T is sorrow builds the shining ladder up, Whose golden...and cold, When he is sent to summon those we love, But all God's angels come to us disguised ; Sorrow and sickness, poverty and death, One after other... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1857 - 334 pages
...thitherward, but floats from bloom to bloom, With earth's warm patch of sunshine well content : 'Tis sorrow builds the shining ladder up, Whose golden...and cold, When he is sent to summon those we love, But all God's angels come to us disguised ; Sorrow and sickness, poverty and death, One after other... | |
 | Children - 1858 - 240 pages
...thitherward, but floats from bloom to bloom, With earth's warm patch of sunshine well content : 'Tis SOITOW builds the shining ladder up, Whose golden rounds...and cold, When he is sent to summon those we love, But all God's angels come to us disguised ; Sorrow and sickness, poverty and death, One after other... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1858 - 342 pages
...thitherward, but floats from bloom to bloom, With earth's warm patch of sunshine well content: 'Tis sorrow builds the shining ladder up, Whose golden...unsealed. True is it that Death's face seems stern and told, When he is sent to summon those we love, But all God's angels come to us disguised; Sorrow and... | |
 | John Joseph Halcombe - 1859 - 232 pages
...conclusive tones of voice naturally adopted when the sense is more or less complete.) Thus:— " 'Tis sorrow" builds the shining ladder up, Whose golden rounds" are our calamities." You cannot injure the sense here however long the voice is suspended at the words " sorrow " and "... | |
 | Quotations - 1861 - 356 pages
...Who found not thorns and briars in his road. COWPEE. Tis sorrow builds the shining ladder up, Whoso golden rounds are our calamities, Whereon our firm...God The spirit climbs, and hath its eyes unsealed. JR LOWELL. When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions. SHAKSPEARE. And what is... | |
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