 | Rebecca Hey - 1837 - 386 pages
...living author, whose lyre, we could wish, were oftener tuned to such strains : — " Oh ! who could bear life's stormy doom, Did not thy wing of love Come brightly wafting through the gloom, Our peace-branch from above? Then sorrow, touched by thec, grows bright With more than rapture's ray... | |
 | Cynosure - 1837 - 272 pages
...cheers, And e'en the hope that threw A moment's sparkle o'er our tears, Is dimm'd and vanisb'd too. Oh ! who would bear life's stormy doom, Did not Thy wing of love Come brightly wafting thro' the gloom, A peace branch from above. Then sorrow touch'd by Thee grows .bright, With more than... | |
 | William Martin - Readers - 1838 - 368 pages
...cheers, And even the hope that threw A moment's sparkle o'er our tears, Is dimm'd and vanish'd too ! Oh ! who would bear life's stormy doom Did not Thy...wing of love Come, brightly wafting through the gloom Our peace-branch from above ? Then sorrow, touch'd by Thee, grows bright With more than rapture's ray... | |
 | David Holt - Educational literature - 1839 - 304 pages
...o'er our tears, Is dimm'd and vanish'd too. Oh ! who would bear life's stormy doom. Did not Thy wings of love Come brightly wafting through the gloom, One...darkness shows us worlds of light We never saw by day. Moore. MY heart deceives me greatly, if I have not a high veneration, and sincere love for all good... | |
 | Caroline Leigh Gascoigne - 1839 - 920 pages
...sorrows see The hand of God. Montgomtry. He mourna the dead, who live as they desire. Yaung't Night Then sorrow, touched by thee, grows bright With more...rapture's ray, As darkness shows us worlds of light We nerer saw by day. M. PERHAPS no event ever excited a stronger, or more lasting, feeling of sympathy,... | |
 | Abel Charles Thomas - Hymns, English - 1839 - 224 pages
...cheers, And e'en the hope, that threw A moment's sparkle n'er our tears, Is dimmed and vanished too. O who would bear life's stormy doom, Did not thy wing of love Come, brightly wafting thro' the gloom, A peace-branch from above ! Then sorrow, touched by thee, is bright With more than... | |
 | Mandeville (fict.name.) - 1839 - 182 pages
...through whose mercy it is imparted ! surely we must confess in the beautiful language of the poet, — "Then sorrow, touched by Thee, grows bright With more than rapture's ray, As darkness shews us worlds of light, We never saw by day." CHAPTER VII. FOR some minutes after the departure of... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1841 - 448 pages
...cheers, And even the hope that threw A moment's sparkle o'er our tears, Is dimm'd and vanish'd too, Oh, who would bear life's stormy doom, Did not thy...Wing of Love Come, brightly wafting through the gloom Our Peace-branch from above ? Then sorrow, touch'd by Thee, grows bright With more than rapture's ray... | |
 | Methodist Episcopal Church - Hymns, English - 1840 - 760 pages
...Come brightly wafting through the gloom, Our peace-branch from above. 5 Then sorrow, touch'd by Him, grows bright, With more than rapture's ray ; As darkness shows us worlds of light, We never saw by day. 749 CM Crosses are llessings. SINCE all the varying scenes of time God's watchful eye surveys, 0, who... | |
 | Hymns, English - 1840 - 498 pages
...comes, are flown ; And he who has but tears to give, Must weep those tears alone. 3 Oh ! who could bear life's stormy doom, Did not thy wing of love Come brightly wafting, through the gloom, Our peace-branch from above ? 4 Then sorrow, touch'd by thee, grows brig] With more than rapture's... | |
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Come, brightly wafting through the gloom Our peace-branch from above!' Then sorrow, touched by Thee, grows bright With more than rapture's ray ; As darkness shows us worlds of light We never saw by day ! • Thomas Moore, 1779—1852. 
