 | 1889 - 876 pagina’s
...epoch as fully as their elders. They have followed its heroes to the grave, and find it strange, " With so much gone Of life and love, to still live on." Sometimes, they almost feel that their keenest interests, their bravest faith and best aspirations,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1866 - 56 pagina’s
...hearth-fire's ruddy glow. O Time and Change! — with hair as gray As was my sire's that winter day, How strange it seems, with so much gone Of life and...brother! only I and thou Are left of all that circle now, — 19 The dear home faces whereupon That fitful firelight paled and shone. Henceforward, listen as... | |
 | 1866 - 648 pagina’s
...has touchingly portrayed the feelings of one around whom death has created a solitude, in the cry : "How strange it seems with so much gone Of life and love, to still live on." But where shall we find words sufficiently expressive of the surprise and grief of him whose heart... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 372 pagina’s
...hearth-fire's ruddy glow O Time and Change ! — with hair as gray As was my sire's that winter day, How strange it seems, with so much gone Of life and...faces whereupon That fitful firelight paled and shone. 5. Henceforward, listen as we will, The voices of that hearth are still ; Look where we may, the wide... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 386 pagina’s
...hearth-fire's ruddy glow. O Time and Change !—with hair as gray As was my sire's that winter day, How strange it seems, with so much gone Of life and...that circle now,— The dear home faces whereupon 5. Henceforward, listen as we will, The voices of that hearth are still; Look where we may, the wide... | |
 | 1867 - 148 pagina’s
...returns." In my own family how great the changes. " O Time and change ! How strange it seems, with eo much gone Of life and love to still live on ; Ah,...circle now. — The dear home faces whereupon That fltful firelight paled and shone, Hence forward, listen as we will, The voices of that hearth are still... | |
 | 1867 - 454 pagina’s
...devoted friends. ILLEGITIMACY OF THE NEW-YORK COUNCIL. 115 " Oh Time and change ! How strange it teems, with so much gone Of life and love, to still live on ! Yet Love will dream, and Faith will trust (Since He who knows our need is just), That somehow, somewhere,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1868 - 76 pagina’s
...hearth-fire's ruddy glow, O Time and Change! — with hair as gray As was my sire's that winter day, How strange it seems, with so much gone Of life and love, to still live on ! t Ah, brother ! only I and thou Are left of all that circle now, — The dear home faces whereupon... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1873 - 424 pagina’s
...hearth-fire's ruddy glow. O Time and Change ! — with hair as gray As was my sire's that winter day, How strange it seems, with so much gone Of life and love, to still live on I Ah, brother ! only I and thou Are left of all that circle now, — The dear home faces whereupon... | |
 | Monday Club - 1875 - 414 pagina’s
...heart-rending cry, " Dead ! dead, is he ? Then is the world, and all the glory of the world, dead to me ! " " How strange it seems, with so much gone Of life and love, to still live on ! " How hard is it to find satisfaction in aught that remains ! The earth is, indeed, as fair as ever,... | |
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O Time and Change ! — with hair as gray As was my sire's that winter day, How strange it seems, with so much gone Of life and love, to still live on... 
