 To me the thought of death is terrible, Having such hold on life. To thee it is not So much even as the lifting of a latch ; Only a step into the open air Out of a tent already luminous With light that shines through its transparent walls...  The Eclectic Review - Page 486edited by - 1852Full view - About this book
 | 1861 - 1366 pages
...deliverance to Him, and why is not to be so, through Him, to me? APC 14:3:64. "Tis not "So much as e'en the lifting of a latch — " Only a step into the open air "Out of a tent already luminous "With light that shines through its transparent walls." Lord ! who can pay the mighty debt Of love... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 344 pages
...hearts preponderates, And the other, like an empty one, flies up, And is accounted vanity and air ! To me the thought of death is terrible, Having such...step into the open air Out of a tent already luminous With light that shines through its transparent walls ! 0 pure in heart ! from thy sweet dust shall... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 352 pages
...hearts preponderates, And the other, like an empty one, flies up, And is accounted vanity and air! To me the thought of death is terrible, Having such...step into the open air Out of a tent already luminous With light that shines through its transparent walls! O pure in heart! from thy sweet dust shall grow... | |
 | 1852 - 394 pages
...hearts preponderates, And the other, like an empty one, Mies up, And is accounted vanity and air ! To me the thought of death is terrible. Having such...step into the open air Out of a tent already luminous Vrtth light that shines through its transparent walls ! O pure in heart ! from thy sweet dust shall... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1852 - 324 pages
...hearts preponderates, And the other, like an empty one, flies up, And is accounted vanity and air ! To me the thought of death is terrible, Having such...step into the open air Out of a tent already luminous With light that shines through its transparent walls ! O pure in heart! from thy sweet dust shall grow... | |
 | Midland-metropolitan magazine - 1852 - 676 pages
...hearts, preponderates, And the other, like an empty one, flies up And is accounted vanity and air! To me the thought of death is terrible Having such...into the open air, Out of a tent already luminous With light that shines through its transparent walls. O pure in heart! from thy sweet dust shall grow... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1853 - 678 pages
...turn, ' And all stream forward to Salern !' No wonder that he should thus contrast her state and his:' To me the thought of death is terrible, Having such...thee it is not So much even as the lifting of a latch ; Ouly a step into the open air Out of a tent already luminous With light that shines through its transparent... | |
 | 1853 - 544 pages
...hearts preponderates, And the other, like an empty one, flies up. And is accounted vanity and air ! ^ To me the thought of death is terrible, Having such hold on life. To thee it is not So much as even the lifting of a latch : Only a step into the open air ^ -i^. .; Out of a tent already luminous... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1854 - 590 pages
...we shall start at once from the slumber of temporal existence into shining and intelligible morning. To me the thought of death is terrible, Having such...step into the open air Out of a tent already luminous With light that shines through its transparent walls. Wisdom, then, dictates that life should be our... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1854 - 270 pages
...hearts preponderates, And the other, like an empty one, flies up. And is accounted vanity and air ! To me the thought of death is terrible, Having such...To thee it is not So much even as the lifting of a lateh ; Only a step into the open air Out of a tent already luminous With light that shines through... | |
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