 | Freemasons. Grand Lodge of Iowa - 1901 - 788 pages
...inscribed on the hither side, "Death"—on the farther side, in radiant characters, "Life." " "Pis sorrow builds the shining ladder up, Whose golden...and cold When he is sent to summon those we love: Rut nil God's angels come to us disguised ; Sorrow and sickness, poverty, and death. One after another,... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1877 - 668 pages
...Lowell seems to have been indebted to both St. Augustine and Tennyson in the following lines : — " 'Tis sorrow builds the shining ladder up, Whose golden rounds are our calamities, Whereon our feet firm planting, nearer God The spirit climbs, and hath its eyes unseal'd." In poem xxix. a seasonable... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1858 - 342 pages
...Aim thitherward, but floats from bloom to bloom, With earth's warm patch of sunshine well content: 'Tis sorrow builds the shining ladder up, Whose golden...unsealed. True is it that Death's face seems stern and told, When he is sent to summon those we love, But all God's angels come to us disguised; Sorrow and... | |
 | John Joseph Halcombe - 1859 - 232 pages
...the conclusive tones of voice naturally adopted when the sense is more or less complete.) Thus:— " 'Tis sorrow" builds the shining ladder up, Whose golden rounds" are our calamities." You cannot injure the sense here however long the voice is suspended at the words " sorrow " and "... | |
 | Quotations - 1861 - 356 pages
...Who found not thorns and briars in his road. COWPEE. Tis sorrow builds the shining ladder up, Whoso golden rounds are our calamities, Whereon our firm...God The spirit climbs, and hath its eyes unsealed. JR LOWELL. When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions. SHAKSPEARE. And what is... | |
 | Mrs. M. E. M'Allister - 1873 - 258 pages
...baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with." What means it ? Is it to be sorrow, that " Shall build the shining ladder up, Whose golden rounds are our...GOD The spirit climbs, and hath its eyes unsealed?" January 2"jth, 1863. Strange have been the scenes and trials through which I have passed during the... | |
 | John Joseph Halcombe - Elocution - 1874 - 200 pages
...conclusive tones of voice naturally adopted when the sense is more or less complete.) Thus • — " 'Tis sorrow" builds the shining ladder up, Whose golden rounds" are our calamities." You cannot injure the sense here however long the voice is suspended at the words " sorrow " and "... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1877 - 572 pages
...content: 'T is sorrow builds tin- shining ladder up, Whose golden rounds are our calamities, AVhereon our firm feet planting, nearer God The spirit climbs,...is it that Death's face seems stern and cold, When lie is sent to summon those we love, But all (¡od's angels come to us disguised ; Sorrow and sickness,... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1877 - 574 pages
...seems to have been indebted to both St. Augustine and Tennyson in the following lines : — " Ti - sorrow builds the shining ladder up, Whose golden rounds are our calamities, Whereon our feet firm planting, nearer God The spirit climbs, and hath its eyes unseal'd." In poem xxix. a seasonable... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1879 - 592 pages
...thitherward, but floats from bloom to bloom, With earth's warm patch of sunshine well content : T is sorrow builds the shining ladder up, Whose golden...planting, nearer God The spirit climbs, and hath its eyes nneealed. True is it that Death's face seems stem and cold, When he is sent to summon those we love,... | |
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T is sorrow builds the shining ladder up, Whose golden rounds are our calamities, Whereon our firm feet planting, nearer God The spirit climbs, and hath its eyes unsealed. 
