There is no Death ! What seems so is transition ; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life Elysian, Whose portal we call Death. Poems - Страница 354по Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
| 1859 - 858 страници
...teachings of nature, professed their firm belief in a life beyond death. " There U no death ! W liât seems so is transition. This life of mortal breath...of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death." Life ever springs from death — life in new forms perhaps, but ever life. Death is no end in itself;... | |
| Francis Wharton - 1859 - 396 страници
...oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vapors Amid these earthly damps ; What seem to us...sad, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps. Far different is the confidence of the Christian : — I KNOW, is all the mourner saith, Knowledge... | |
| mrs. M J H. Hollings - 1859 - 460 страници
...oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vapours Amid these earthly damps : What seem to us but sad funereal tapers May be Heaven's distant lamps.' " "Ah, Ethel, poetry is very beautiful when we are happy ! and it is all very well, too, to read of... | |
| Joseph Barlow Robinson - 1859 - 220 страници
...Blushed into duwn and passed away. MRS. HEUA.NS. 690. We see but dimly through the mists and vapours ; Amid these earthly damps, What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps. LONGFELLOW. 691. We call him blessed whom the Lord hath blest And made a blessing ;- — long to shed... | |
| Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Central Pennsylvania - 1906 - 1064 страници
...died and rose again and that those who sleep in Jesus, God will bring with him. Alleluia ! " There is no death ! What seems so is transition. This life...suburb of the life elysian Whose portal we call death." Respectfully submitted, WDE SCOTT, C. LUTHER McCONNELL, MS CRESSMAN. The report was adopted by a rising... | |
| Michael Wallis - 1995 - 532 страници
...wrapped in his overcoat and grief, read the inscriptions chiseled on the front of the mausoleum: "There is no death! What seems so is transition. This life...suburb of the life elysian whose portal we call death." — Longfellow "Some evening when the sky is gold I'll follow day into the west nor pause, nor heed,... | |
| Paschal B. Randolph - 1996 - 274 страници
...AIMED BT EifANUEL SWEnESBOHO AVD OTUERS, THROCOU TUB MINDS OF FRANCES IL McDoucAtL AND LUNA '. ' There is no death ' what seems so is transition , This life...suburb of the LIFE ELYSIAN, Whose portal we call death " Longfellow 'Osmg to me of Health" Dying Child New York DM BENNETT, 1878 Reprinted 1972 By Health... | |
| Arthur M. Coon - 1996 - 56 страници
...its destiny below. " And two thousand years afterward, Longfellow expressed the same thought: "There is no death: what seems so is transition. This life...suburb of the life Elysian, Whose portal we call Death " And many, many more. Before leaving the poets, we must not over look that favorite from Oliver Wendell... | |
| W. D. Chesney - 1996 - 144 страници
...as the present spirit mediums and ministers in Spiritualistic Churches. As Longfellow wrote: "There is no death. What seems so is transition, this life of mortal breath, is but the gateway to the Fields Elysian — whose portals men call death. " ABRAHAh LINCOLN, SPIRITUALIST... | |
| J. C. Street - 1996 - 650 страници
...immortality, while his conscience is in companionship of the Angels, and they are his instructors. " There is no death ; what seems so is transition. This life of mortal breath Is but the suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call death." Take the matter of the philosopher's stone... | |
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