 | Charles Samuel Stewart - Islands of the Pacific - 1833 - 336 pages
...forevermore," been sweetly brought to sight by the hymn of Moore containing these lines : " Oh! who could bear life's stormy doom Did not thy wing of love • • Come brightly wafting thro' the gloom Our peace-branch from above ? Then sorrow, touch'd by thee, grows bright, With more... | |
 | Hymns, English - 1833 - 554 pages
...winter comes, are flown ; And he who has but tears to give, Must weep those tears alone. 3 Oh! who could bear life's stormy doom, Did not thy wing of love Come brightly waiting thro* the gloom Our peace-branch from above 1 4 Then sorrow toiich'd by tbee, grows bright,... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1835 - 440 pages
...soothes or cheers, And even the hope that threw A moment's sparkle o'er our tears, Is dimm'd and vanish'd too ! Oh ! who would bear life's stormy doom, Did...darkness shows us worlds of light We never saw by day ! WEEP NOT FOR THOSE. Air — Avisos. WEEP not for those whom the veil of the tomb, In life's happy... | |
 | British and foreign sailors' society - 1845 - 516 pages
...the hope that threw A moment's sparkle o'er our tears, Is dimm'd and vanished too ! R Oh ! who could bear life's stormy doom , Did not thy wing of love,...darkness shows us worlds of light, We never saw by day. — Moore. SHIPWRECKS AND DISASTERS AT SEA. DREADFUL Loss OF THE BRIG "SUTLEDGE," OF PICTOU (NS) THIRTY... | |
 | 1835 - 220 pages
...even the hope, that threw A moment's sparkle o'er our tears, Is dimm'd and vanished too, Oh who could bear life's stormy doom, Did not Thy wing of love...darkness shows us worlds of light We never saw by day! Moore, s 164. "THE DAYS OF THY MOURNING SHALL BE ENDED." Oh ! weep not for the joys that fade Like... | |
 | American Tract Society - Hymns, English - 1835 - 224 pages
...winter comes, are flown; And he who has but tears to give, Must weep those tears alone. 3 Oh ! who could bear life's stormy doom, Did not thy wing of love...wafting, through the gloom, Our peace-branch from above ? 4 Then sorrow, touch'd by thee, grows bright, With more than rapture's ray ; As darkness shows us... | |
 | Hannah More - Children's poetry - 1835 - 272 pages
...e'en the hope that threw A moment's sparkle o'er our tears, Is dimm'd and vanish'd too ! Oh, who could bear life's stormy doom. Did not thy wing of love Come brightly wafting through the gloom One Peace-Branch from above ! Then sorrow, touch'd by thec, grows bright With more than rapture's ray... | |
 | Mourner - Devotional literature, English - 1836 - 242 pages
...soothes or cheers, And e'en the hope that threw A moment's sparkle o'er our tears, Is dimm'd and vanish'd too ! Oh ! who would bear life's stormy doom, Did...wing of love Come brightly wafting through the gloom, One peace-branch from above. The sorrow touch'd by Thee grows bright, With more than rapture's ray,... | |
 | Lady, A Lady - Bereavement - 1836 - 338 pages
...soothes or cheers, And ev'n the hope that threw A moment's sparkle o'er our tears, Is dimm'd and vanish'd too ! Oh ! who would bear life's stormy doom, Did...wing of love Come brightly wafting through the gloom, One Peace-branch from above ? Then sorrow, touch'd by thee, grows bright With more than rapture's ray... | |
 | Rebecca Hey - 1837 - 386 pages
...living author, whose lyre, we could wish, were oftener tuned to such strains : — " Oh ! who could bear life's stormy doom, Did not thy wing of love...the gloom, Our peace-branch from above? Then sorrow, touched by thec, grows bright With more than rapture's ray : As darkness shows us worlds of light We... | |
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But Thou wilt heal that broken heart, Which, like the plants that throw Their fragrance from the wounded part, Breathes sweetness out of woe. 
