 | Noble Butler - English language - 1846 - 276 pages
...moment's sparkle o'er our tears, Is dimmed and vanished e too, 0 who would bear life's stormy doom, % Bid not thy wing of love Come, brightly wafting through the gloom — Our j>eace-branch from above ? Then sorrow, touched by Thee, grows bright With more than rapture's ray... | |
 | Churches of Christ - 1847 - 592 pages
...wickedness — of sin and strife — of sorrow and disappointment, is this world of ours ! 11 Oh ! who ooutd bear life's stormy doom. Did not thy wing of love...wafting through the gloom,. Our peace-branch from above ! " What is there upon this impure earth that has attraction for the "pure in heart?" "Vanity and lies"... | |
 | Richard Fuller, Jeremiah Bell Jeter - Baptists - 1847 - 758 pages
...the hope that threw A moment's sparkle o'er our tears Is dimmed and vanished too, — 5 O, who could bear life's stormy doom, Did not thy wing of love...wafting through the gloom Our peace-branch from above? 0 Then sorrow, touched by thee, grows bright With more than rapture's ray, As darkness shows us worlds... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - Life - 1847 - 400 pages
...upon it as thy Father's will, and then it is smiling, beautiful, and lovely. Thus sorrow sent by God grows bright, With more than rapture's ray, As darkness shows us worlds of light, We never saw by day. HEBER. CHAP. vm. THE EFFORTS OF MAN TO UNDERSTAND HIS OWN NATURE AND DESTINY. As from the wing, no... | |
 | John Dowling - 1847 - 322 pages
...latest tear away. SKETCHES OF MISSIONARY LIFE No. VIII.-THE CHRISTIAN HEROINE. EDITOR. " 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 thee grows bright With more than rapture's ray... | |
 | Samuel Francis Smith, Richard Fuller, Jeremiah Bell Jeter - Baptists - 1847 - 782 pages
...the hope that threw A moment's sparkle o'er our tears, Is dimmed and vanished too, - 5 O, who could bear life's stormy doom, Did not thy wing of love Come brightly watting through the gloom Our peace-hranch from above ? G Then sorrow, touched by thce, grows bright... | |
 | Emily Chubbuck Judson - Missionaries - 1848 - 268 pages
...draw nigh unto you.' ' Pray without ceasing.' ' Watch unto prayer.' " TRIAL ON TRIAL. " Oh ! who could bear life's stormy doom. Did not Thy -wing of love...brightly wafting through the gloom. Our peace-branch fvom above ?" Moore. BN less than half-a-dozen years after her j|[ second marriage, Mrs. Judson thus... | |
 | Thomas Moore - Sacred songs - 1849 - 328 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 not...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... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1849 - 822 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 not...above ? Then sorrow, touch'd by Thee, grows bright WTith more than rapture's ray ; As darkness shows us worlds of light We never saw by day I WEEP NOT... | |
 | Hymns - 1849 - 478 pages
...cheers, And e'en the hope that threw A moment's sparkle o'er our tears Is dimmed and vanished too ; 4 O, who would bear life's stormy doom, Did not Thy wing...wafting through the gloom Our peace-branch from above? 5 Then sorrow, touched by Thee, grows bright, With more than rapture's ray; The darkness shows us worlds... | |
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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. 
