 Count each affliction, whether light or grave, God's messenger sent down to thee ; do thou With courtesy receive him ; rise and bow ; And, ere his shadow pass thy threshold, crave Permission first his heavenly feet to lave ; Then lay before him all thou...  The Living Age - Page 3941904Full view - About this book
 | 1864 - 998 pages
...touches are a very different strain, a sermon confew and light, but distinct and densed in a sonnet: — Count each affliction, whether light or grave, God's...shadow pass thy threshold, crave Permission first his\heavenly feet to lave, — Then lay before him all thou hast ; allow No cloud of passion to ursurp... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...eyes — If but a moment on my cheek it stays I know that gentle beam from all the rest! AFFLICTION. COUNT each affliction, whether light or grave, God's...hast Allow No cloud of passion to usurp thy brow, Or mar thy hospitality; no wave Of mortal tumult to obliterate The soul's marmoreal calmness. Grief... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1896 - 600 pages
...is very characteristic of the refinement, the grave wisdom, the stateliness of his mind. SORROW. ' Count each affliction, whether light or grave, God's...hast ; allow No cloud of passion to usurp thy brow, Or mar thy hospitality ; no wave Of mortal tumult to obliterate The soul's marmoreal calmness ; grief... | |
 | Aubrey De Vere (calling himself earl of Oxford.) - 1842 - 334 pages
...across the threshold ; dares not tread The space within devote to God and to the dead. LXI. Sorroto. COUNT each affliction, whether light or grave, God's...hast. Allow No cloud of passion to usurp thy brow, Or mar thy hospitality, no wave Of mortal tumult to obliterate The soul's marmoreal calmness. Grief... | |
 | Aubrey De Vere - Christian poetry, English - 1842 - 338 pages
...not across the threshold ; dares not tread The space within devote to God and to the dead. Jbomto. COUNT each affliction, whether light or grave, God's...hast. Allow No cloud of passion to usurp thy brow, Or mar thy hospitality, no wave Of mortal tumult to obliterate The soul's marmoreal calmness. Grief... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1843 - 632 pages
...sonnets with one entitled ' Sorrow,' breathing a very full and noble strain of moral exhortation : — ' Count each affliction, whether light or grave, God's...hast. Allow No cloud of passion to usurp thy brow, Or mar thy hospitality ; no wave Of mortal tumult to obliterate The soul's marmoreal calmness. Grief... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1843 - 714 pages
...sonnets with one entitled ' Sorrow,' breathing a very full and noble strain of moral exhortation : — ' Count each affliction, whether light or grave, God's...thou With courtesy receive him : rise and bow ; And And ere his shadow pass thy threshold, crave Permission first his heavenly feet to lave. Then lay before... | |
 | Child rearing - 1845 - 328 pages
...long line of descendants by his first born son, William. Ipswich, Mast. SORROW. BY AOBREV DE VERB. COUNT each affliction, whether light or grave, God's messenger sent down to thee. Do then With courtesy receive him : rise and bow : And ere his shadow pass thy threshold, crave Permission... | |
 | Hannah J. Woodman - American poetry - 1846 - 226 pages
...fashion, And its bounding hopes control ; Pray that no unhallowed passion Soil the ermine of thy soul. Count each affliction, whether light or grave, God's...hast. Allow No cloud of passion to usurp thy brow, Or mar thy hospitality, no wave Of mortal tumult to obliterate The soul's marmorial calmness. Grief... | |
 | sir Henry Taylor - 1849 - 328 pages
...sonnets with one entitled ' Sorrow,' breathing a very full and noble strain of moral exhortation : — ' Count each affliction, whether light or grave, God's...hast. Allow No cloud of passion to usurp thy brow, Or mar thy hospitality ; no wave Of mortal tumult to obliterate The soul's marmoreal calmness. Grief... | |
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