Mount Auburn: Its Scenes, Its Beauties, and Its LessonsJ. Munroe, 1861 - 371 sider |
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Side 67
... bright arms , and trickle to the ground . A peal of groans succeeds ; and heaven rebounds To the mixed cries , and trumpets martial sounds . Some in the flames the wheels and bridles throw , The swords and helmets of the vanquished foe ...
... bright arms , and trickle to the ground . A peal of groans succeeds ; and heaven rebounds To the mixed cries , and trumpets martial sounds . Some in the flames the wheels and bridles throw , The swords and helmets of the vanquished foe ...
Side 78
... bright in memory's page , Comes up the day , when bidding books farewell , With buoyant steps I came to hear the sage Whose silver voice arose from yonder dell , * While crowds sat breathless as his accents fell . * Consecration Dell ...
... bright in memory's page , Comes up the day , when bidding books farewell , With buoyant steps I came to hear the sage Whose silver voice arose from yonder dell , * While crowds sat breathless as his accents fell . * Consecration Dell ...
Side 88
... bright- ness in the deepening shadows of the evening , when we entered the church . A blaze of light from the numerous candles burning upon the altar , lighted up its recesses with their flickering beams , and the pale rays which ...
... bright- ness in the deepening shadows of the evening , when we entered the church . A blaze of light from the numerous candles burning upon the altar , lighted up its recesses with their flickering beams , and the pale rays which ...
Side 89
... bright visions but to fade ; love but to grieve . Yet at such an hour one would like to die , that the twilight dews , and the stars whose glory we have loved so well , might be first to shed their beams upon us . How strange that that ...
... bright visions but to fade ; love but to grieve . Yet at such an hour one would like to die , that the twilight dews , and the stars whose glory we have loved so well , might be first to shed their beams upon us . How strange that that ...
Side 101
... bright flow'ret's bed . Lured by the scenes , I wandered far away , And paused not till the first decline of day ; When , as I looked around to mark my pace , I found myself within the burial - place ; But knew not thither that my steps ...
... bright flow'ret's bed . Lured by the scenes , I wandered far away , And paused not till the first decline of day ; When , as I looked around to mark my pace , I found myself within the burial - place ; But knew not thither that my steps ...
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affection ALVIN ADAMS ancient ashes awaken beautiful beneath body breath burial place buried Cenotaphs character Charles River charm child Christian church coffin consecrated custom dark dead death deceased deep Deity delight device dust earth emblem emblematical emotions epitaph excite faith feel fence funeral garden grave grief grounds heart heaven honor hope humble immortality inscription interesting Jacob Bigelow John Lowell Joseph Story laid land light living look lots marble Massachusetts Horticultural Society melancholy memory ments mind moral mounds Mount Auburn mourners mourning nature never noble brass o'er objects ornaments persons planted pleasing poetical prayer religious remains remembrance rest reverence rites rural cemetery sacred sarcophagus scenes sculpture sentiment sepulchral shade shrubs simple solemn sorrow soul spirit spot stone style taste tears tender thee thou thought tion tombs trees tumuli turf veneration virtues Westminster Abbey wild flowers WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING young
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Side 126 - If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying, 5 My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die : in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me.
Side 154 - Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.
Side 235 - No passing bell doth toll, Yet an immortal soul Is passing now. Stranger ! however great, With lowly reverence bow ; There's one in that poor shed — One by that paltry bed, Greater than thou. Beneath that beggar's roof, Lo ! Death doth keep his state ; Enter — no crowds attend ; Enter — no guards defend This palace gate.
Side 236 - That pavement, damp and cold, no smiling courtiers tread ; one silent woman stands, lifting with meagre hands, a dying head. No mingling voices sound — an infant wail alone ; a sob suppressed — again that short deep gasp, and then the parting groan ! Oh ! change — oh, wondrous change ! burst are the prison bars ! This moment there, so low, so agonized ; — and now, beyond the stars ! Oh I change — stupendous change ! There lies the soulless clod : — the sun eternal breaks — the new immortal...
Side 52 - Let Vanity adorn the marble tomb With trophies, rhymes, and scutcheons of renown, In the deep dungeon of some gothic dome, Where night and desolation ever frown. Mine be the breezy hill that skirts the down; Where a green grassy turf is all I crave, With here and there a violet bestrown, Fast by a brook, or fountain's murmuring wave; And many an evening sun shine sweetly on my grave.
Side 329 - And the field of Ephron which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, and the cave which was therein, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all the borders round about, were made sure unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city.
Side 326 - Thy works, and alms, and all thy good endeavour, Stayed not behind, nor in the grave were trod; But, as Faith pointed with her golden rod, Followed thee up to joy and bliss for ever.
Side 330 - Jerusalem, out of their graves: and they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried ; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.
Side 126 - And Joseph went up to bury his father: and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt...
Side 325 - In a small narrow cave, and, begirt with cold clay, To the meanest of reptiles a peer and a prey. To Beauty? Ah, no !— she forgets The charms which she wielded before — Nor knows the foul worm that he frets The skin which but yesterday fools could adore, For the smoothness it held, or the tint which it wore.