 Enough that blessings undeserved Have marked my erring track ; That wheresoe'er my feet have swerved His chastening turned me back — That more and more a Providence Of love is understood, Making the springs of time and sense, Sweet with eternal good...  The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier - Seite 296von John Greenleaf Whittier - 1888 - 344 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1892 - 890 Seiten
...pilgrim staff, — I lay Aside the toiling oar : The angel sought so far away I welcome at my door. For death seems but a covered way Which opens into light,...blinded child can stray Beyond the Father's sight. His cheery view of life, even as it nears the end, comes out in " My Birthday:"— Beneath the moonlight... | |
 | 1877 - 564 Seiten
...Leading from light to light, through a brief darkness ! " Longfellow's Golden Legend. " That death is but a covered way Which opens into light, Wherein no blinded child can stray Beyond the Father's sinht." Whittier's Home Ballads (" My Psalm "). JABEZ. CURIOUS BURIAL CUSTOM OF THE DTOTT FAMILY (5*... | |
 | 1879 - 474 Seiten
...That wheresoe'er my feet have swerved, His chastening turned me back : That more and more a Providence Of love is understood, Making the springs of time...trial seem, at last, Through memory's sunset air. Like mountain ranges overpast, In purple distance fair : That all the jarring notes of life Seem blending... | |
 | Norman Macleod - 1859 - 564 Seiten
...That wheresoe'er my feet have swerved, His chastening turn'd me backThat more and more a Providence Of love is understood, Making the springs of time...Sweet with eternal good — That death seems but a cover'd way Which opens into light, Wherein no blinded child can stray Beyond the Father's sightThat... | |
 | Caroline Snowden Guild - 1860 - 366 Seiten
...have swerved, His chaftening turned me back — That more and more a Providence Of love is underftood, Making the springs of time and sense Sweet with eternal...Which opens into light, Wherein no blinded child can ftray Beyond the Father's fight — That care and trial seem at laft, Through Memory's sunset air,... | |
 | 1861 - 674 Seiten
...wheresoe'cr my feet have swerved, His chastening turned me back ; " That more and more a Providence Of love is understood, Making the springs of time...Beyond the Father's sight ; " That care and trial seem nt last, Through Memory's sunset air, Like mountain ranges over-past, In purple distance fair : " That... | |
 | All - 1861 - 304 Seiten
...That wheresoe'er my footsteps swerved, Thy chastening held me back. " That more and more a Providence Of love is understood, Making the springs of time and sense Sweet with eternal good. " That care and trial seem at kst, In memory's sunset air, Like mountain ranges overpast, In purple distance... | |
 | Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - 1862 - 418 Seiten
...That wheresoe'er my feet have swerved, His chastening turned me back ; That more and more a Providence Of love is understood, Making the springs of time...with eternal good : That death seems but a covered wav Which opens into light, Wherein no blinded child can stray Beyond the Father's sight ; That care... | |
 | 1863 - 220 Seiten
...That wheresoe'er my feet have swerved, His chastening turned me back ; That more and more a Providence Of love is understood, Making the springs of time...mountain-ranges overpast, In purple distance fair. And so the shadows fall apart, And so the west winds play ; And all the windows of my heart I open... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1863 - 420 Seiten
...That wheresoe'er my feet have swerved, His chastening turned me back ; That more and more a Providence Of love is understood, Making the springs of time...Father's sight ; That care and trial seem at last, Thro' Memory's sunset air, Like mountain ranges over-past, In purple distance fair : That all the jarring... | |
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