 Twas at thy door, O friend ! and not at mine, The angel with the amaranthine wreath, Pausing, descended, and with voice divine, Whispered a word that had a sound like Death. Then fell upon the house a sudden gloom, A shadow on those features fair and...  Littell's Living Age - Seite 491854Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1883 - 500 Seiten
...lining to the cloud, and discern the truth of those eloquent lines — " AlHs of GOD ! if He but raise His hand The mists collect, the rain falls thick and...loud, Till with a smile of light on sea and land. So He looks back from the departing cloud." And so, sorrowful it may be, yet always rejoicing, with... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1854 - 670 Seiten
...voice divine, Whispered a word that had a sound like Death. Then fell upon the house a sudden gloom, A shadow on those features fair and thin ; And softly,...loud, Till with a smile of light on sea and land, Lo ! He looks back from the departing cloud. Angels of Life and Death alike are his; Without his leave... | |
 | 1854 - 704 Seiten
...voice divine, Whispered a word that had a sound like Death. Then fell upon the house a sudden gloom, A shadow on those features fair and thin ; And softly,...loud, Till with a smile of light on sea and land, Lo ! he looks back from the departing cloud. Angels of Life and Death alike are His ; Without his leave... | |
 | 1854 - 768 Seiten
...voice divine, Whispered a word that had a sound like Death. Then fell upon the house a sudden gloom, A shadow on those features fair and thin ; And softly,...loud, Till with a smile of light on sea and land, Lo ! he looks back from the departing cloud. Angels of Life and Death alike are His ; Without his leave... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1854 - 670 Seiten
...voice divine. Whispered a word that had a sound like Death. Then fell upon the house a sudden gloom, A shadow on those features fair and thin ; And softly,...angels issued, where but one went in. All is of God I If He but wave his hand The mists collect, the rain fulls thick and loud, Till with a smile of light... | |
 | Charlotte Phillips - 1855 - 188 Seiten
...voice divine, Whisper'da sound that had a sound like Death ! And softly from that hush'd and darken'd room Two angels issued, where but one went in ! All...! if He but wave his hand, The mists collect, the rains fall thick and loud, Till, with a smile of light, on sea and land, Lo ! He looks back from the... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1855 - 474 Seiten
...voice divine. Whispered a word that had a bound like Death. Then fell upon the house a sudden gloom, A shadow on those features fair and thin. And softly, from that Implied and darkened room, Two angels issued, where but one went in. All is of God 1 If he but wave... | |
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - 1856 - 708 Seiten
...voice divine, Whispered a word that had a sound like Death. Then fell upon the house a sudden gloom, A shadow on those features fair and thin ; And softly,...! If He but wave his hand, The mists collect, the rains fall thick an'd loud, Till with a smile of light on sea and land, Lo 1 he looks back from the... | |
 | 1856 - 702 Seiten
...voice divine. Whispered a word that had a sound like Death. Then fell upon the house a sudden gloom, A shadow on those features fair and thin ; And softly,...angels issued, where but one went in. All is of God I If He but wave his hand, The mists collect, the rains fall thick and loud, Till with a smile of light... | |
 | 1856 - 654 Seiten
...Whispered a word that had a sound like Death. Then fell upon the house a sudden gloom, A shadow on these features fair and thin ; And softly, from that hushed and darkened room Two angela issued, where but one went in. All is of God ! If He but wave His hand, The mists collect, the... | |
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