 METHINKS we do as fretful children do, Leaning their faces on the window-pane To sigh the glass dim with their own breath's stain, And shut the sky and landscape from their view : And thus, alas, since God the maker drew A mystic separation 'twixt those...  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 5561847Full view - About this book
 | 1847 - 806 pages
...Leaning their faces on the window-pane To sigh the glass dim with their own breath's stain, And shut the sky and landscape from their view. And thus, alas...and our souls in pain, We lose the prospect which we arc called unto, By grief we are fools to use. Be still and strong, O man, my brother ! hold thy sobbing... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1850 - 388 pages
...Leaning their faces on the window-pane To sigh the glass dim with their own breath's stain, And shut the sky and landscape from their view. And thus, alas...twain, The life beyond us, and our souls in pain, We miss the prospect which we 're called unto, By grief we 're fools to use. Be still and strong, O man,... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1850 - 596 pages
...Leaning their faces on the window-pane To sigh the glass dim with their own breath's stain, And shut the sky and landscape from their view. And thus, alas...twain, The life beyond us, and our souls in pain, We miss the prospect which we're called unto, By grief we're fools to use. Be still and strong, O man,... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1851 - 252 pages
...Leaning their faces on the window-pane To sigh the glass dim with their own breath's stain, And shut the sky and landscape from their view. And thus, alas!...twain, The life beyond us, and our souls in pain, We miss the prospect which we're called unto, By grief we're fools to use. Be still and strong, O man,... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1852 - 252 pages
...Leaning their faces on the window-pane To sigh the glass dim with their own breath's stain, And shut the sky and landscape from their view. And thus, alas!...twain, The life beyond us, and our souls in pain, We miss the prospect which we're called unto, By grief we're fools to use. Be still and strong, O man,... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1853 - 386 pages
...Leaning their faces on the window-pane To sigh the glass dim with their own breath's stain, And shut the sky and landscape from their view. And thus, alas...twain, The life beyond us, and our souls in pain, We miss the prospect which we are called unto, By grief we are fools to use. Be still and strong, O man,... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1862 - 320 pages
...maker drew A mystic separation 'twixt those twain, The life beyond us, and our souls in pain, We miss the prospect which we are called unto By grief we are fools to use. Be still and strong, 0 man, my brother ! hold thy sobbing breath, And keep thy soul's large window pure from wrong ; That... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1862 - 480 pages
...Leaning their faces on the window-pane To sigh the glass dim with their own breath's stain, And shut the sky and landscape from their view. And thus, alas...twain, The life beyond us, and our souls in pain, We miss the prospect which we are called unto By grief we are fools to use. Be still and strong, O man,... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1864 - 420 pages
...sigh the glass dim with their own breath's stain, And shut the sky and landscape from their view. A nd thus, alas ! since God the maker drew A mystic separation...twain, The life beyond us, and our souls in pain, We miss the prospect which we are called unto By grief we are fools to use. Be still and strong, O man,... | |
 | R. C. J. - 1866 - 304 pages
...Leaning their faces on the window-pane To sigh the glass dim with their own breath's stain, And shut the sky and landscape from their view : And thus,...twain, The life beyond us, and our souls in pain, We miss the prospect which we are called unto. Hy grief we are fools to use. Be still and strong, () man,... | |
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