 | Samuel Longfellow - Hymns, English - 1889 - 532 pages
...cheers, And e'en the hope that threw A moment's sunshine o'er our tears Is dimmed and vanished too ; O, who would bear life's stormy doom, Did not Thy wing...the gloom Our peace-branch from above ! Then sorrow, touched by Thee, grows bright With more than rapture's ray; The darkness shows us worlds of light We... | |
 | John Hunter - Hymns, English - 1889 - 704 pages
...cheers, And e'en the hope that threw A moment's sparkle o'er our tears, Is dimmed and vanished too ! 3. O who would bear life's stormy doom, Did not Thy wing...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... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1890 - 482 pages
...cheers, And e'en the hope that threw A moment's sparkle o'er our tears Is dimmed and vanished too, O, who would bear life's stormy doom, Did not thy wing...the gloom Our peace-branch from above ? Then sorrow, touched by thee, grows bright With more than rapture's ray ; As darkness shows us worlds of light We... | |
 | Susan Coolidge - Calendars - 1890 - 382 pages
...spirit of Christ. HENRY DRUMMOND. IN Thy light shall we see light. — Ps. xxxvi. 9 THEN sorrow, touched by Thee, grows bright With more than rapture's ray,...darkness shows us worlds of light We never saw by day. THOMAS MOORE. THROUGH the dark night lie still. God's faithful grace Lies hid, like morning, underneath... | |
 | Morton Bryan Wharton - Bible - 1890 - 344 pages
...throw Their fragrance from the wounded part, Breathes sweetness out of woe. " Then sorrow, touched by Thee, grows bright, With more than rapture's ray,...darkness shows us worlds of light, We never saw by day." As Mary Magdalene had been last at the cross, and earliest at the grave, so she was the first witness... | |
 | Melancthon Woolsey Stryker - Hymns, English - 1890 - 540 pages
...And he who has but tears to give, Must weep those tears alone. 2 Our days of darkness we may bear, 3 Oh! who would bear life's stormy doom, , Did not Thy wing of love Come, brightly wafting, thro the gloom, Our peace-branch from above ? 4 Then sorrow, touched by Thee, grows With more than... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1890 - 460 pages
...cheers, And e'en the hope that threw A moment's sparkle o'er our tears Is dimmed and vanished too, 0, who would bear life's stormy doom, Did not thy wing of love Come, brightly waftmg through thegloom Our peace-branch from above ? Then sorrow, touched by thee, grows bright With... | |
 | 1891 - 448 pages
...soothes or cheers, And e'en the hope that threw A moment's sparkle o'er our tears Is dimmed and vanished too, Oh ! who would bear life's stormy doom, Did not...the gloom Our peace-branch from above ? Then sorrow, touched by Thee, grows bright With more than rapture's ray ; As darkness shows us worlds of light We... | |
 | Church of England - Hymns, English - 1891 - 444 pages
...even the hope that threw A moment's sparkle o'er our tears, Is dimmed and vanish'd too, 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 thee grows bright With more than rapture's ray ; As darkness shows us worlds of light We... | |
 | 1891 - 438 pages
...of love Come, brightly wafting through the gloom Our peace-branch from above ? Then sorrow, touched by Thee, grows bright With more than rapture's ray...darkness shows us worlds of light We never saw by day ! ALAS! HOW LIGHT A CAUSE MAY MOVE. Prom "LallaRookh." Alas ! how light a cause may move Dissension... | |
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