 To me the thought of death is terrible, Having such hold on life. To thee it is not So much even as the lifting of a latch; Only a step into the open air Out of a tent already luminous With light that shines through its transparent walls!  Memoir of William Henry Channing - Page 421by Octavius Brooks Frothingham - 1886 - 491 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1861 - 1366 pages
...deliverance to Him, and why is not to be so, through Him, to me? APC 14:3:64. "Tis not "So much as e'en the lifting of a latch — " Only a step into the...luminous "With light that shines through its transparent walls." Lord ! who can pay the mighty debt Of love so rich as Thine ! Love — which siirpasaeth finding... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 352 pages
...accounted vanity and air! To me the thought of death is terrible, Having such hold on life. To thee it is not So much even as the lifting of a latch; Only a...luminous With light that shines through its transparent walls! O pure in heart! from thy sweet dust shall grow Lilies, upon whose petals will be written "... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 344 pages
...accounted vanity and air ! To me the thought of death is terrible, Having such hold on life. To thee it is not So much even as the lifting of a latch ; Only...luminous With light that shines through its transparent walls ! 0 pure in heart ! from thy sweet dust shall grow Lilies, upon whose petals will be written... | |
 | Midland-metropolitan magazine - 1852 - 676 pages
...accounted vanity and air! To me the thought of death is terrible Having such hold on life. To thee it is not So much even as the lifting of a latch; Only a...luminous With light that shines through its transparent walls. O pure in heart! from thy sweet dust shall grow Lilies, upon whose petals will be written "Ave... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1853 - 678 pages
...terrible, Having such hold on life. To thee it is not So much even as the lifting of a latch ; Ouly a step into the open air Out of a tent already luminous With light that shines through its transparent walls ! O pure in heart ! from thy sweet dust shall grow Lilies, upon whose petals shall be written... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1854 - 590 pages
...intelligible morning. To me the thought of death is terrible, Having such hold on life. To thee it is not So much even as the lifting of a latch ; Only...luminous With light that shines through its transparent walls. Wisdom, then, dictates that life should be our great and only regard. For the first office of... | |
 | John Townsend Trowbridge - 1854 - 322 pages
...to the time when she too should grow " young again," like her husband. To her, death did not seem " So much even as the lifting of a latch, — Only a...open air Out of a tent already luminous With light which shone thro' its transparent walls." And so she stayed her time, looking up to heaven, through... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1854 - 270 pages
...death is terrible, Having such hold on life. To thee it is not So much even as the lifting of a lateh ; Only a step into the open air Out of a tent already...luminous With light that shines through its transparent walls ! O pure in heart ! from thy sweet dust shall grow Lilies, upon whose petals will be written... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 568 pages
...life. To thee it is not So much even as the lifting of a latch ; Only a step into the open air Ont of a tent already luminous With light that shines through its transparent walls ! O pure in heart ! from thy sweet dust shall grow Lilies, upon whose petals will be written... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1856 - 346 pages
...accounted vanity and air ! To me the thought of death is terrible, Having such hold on life. To thee it is not So much even as the lifting of a latch ; Only...luminous With light that shines through its transparent walls! O pure in heart! from thy sweet dust shall grow Lilies, upon whose petals will be written "... | |
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