 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1838 - 348 pages
...touches of transporting fear. ABOU DEN ADHEM AND THE ANGEL. ABOU Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase !) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw,...the room he said, " What writest thou ?" The vision rais'd its head. And, with a look made of all sweet accord, Answer'd, " The names of those who love... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1838 - 336 pages
...like a lily in hloom. An angel, writing in a hook of gold ; Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem hold And to the presence in the room he said, " What writest thou ?" The vision rais'd its head, And, with a look made of all sweet accord, Answer'd, " The names of those who love... | |
 | John Greenleaf Adams - Christian life - 1840 - 282 pages
...from a deep dream of peace, And saw within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich and like a lily bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold. Exceeding...The vision raised its head, And with a look, made all of sweet accord, Answered, ' The names of those who love the Lord.' ' And is mine one ? ' said... | |
 | 1855 - 676 pages
...writing in a book of gold, batceediog peace made Ben Adhem bold, And to the Presence in the room he SHid, "What writest thou .'" The vision raised its head, And, with a look made ol all tweet accord, Anavrered, "The namet of those who lore the Lord." "Aod is mine one f" said Abon.... | |
 | Albany (N.Y.) - 1844 - 104 pages
...lard. Abon Ben Adhcm and th« Angel. Abou Ben Adhcm (may his tribe increase) Awoke one night 1'roin a deep dream of peace, And saw, within the moonlight...presence in the room, he said, '' What writest thou 7" The vision raised its head, And with a look made of all sweet accord, Answered " The names of those... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1844 - 314 pages
...mine,—aye, e'en, perhaps, ( a son. J ABOU BEN ADHEM AND THE ANGEL. ABOC BEN ADHEM (may his tribe increase) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw,...to the presence in the room he said, "What writest thoul"—The vision rais'd its head, And with a look made of all sweet accord, Answer'd, "The names... | |
 | Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - Transcendentalism - 1844 - 556 pages
...his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw within the moonlight in the room, Making it rich and like a lily in bloom, An..." The vision raised its head, And with a look made all of sweet accord, Answered, " The names of those who love the Lord." " And is mine one?" said Adhem.... | |
 | John Turner Sargent, Theodore Parker - Unitarian churches - 1845 - 26 pages
...from a deep dream of peace, And saw, within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich and like a lilly in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold. Exceeding...the room he said, ' What writest thou ? ' — The angel raised his head, And, with a look made all of sweet accord, Answered — 'The names of those... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom, An angel, writing in a hook of gold ; Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold...the room he said, "What writest thou !" The vision rais'd its head, And with a look made of all sweet accord, Answer'd, "The names of those who love the... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 308 pages
...rather thou in calm divine ! ABOU BEN ADHEM. BT LEIGH Ht'KT. Aboo Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw,...What writest thou?" The vision raised its head, And, in a voice made all of sweet accord, Answered, " The names of those who love the Lord !" 'i And is... | |
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And saw within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold. Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold And to the presence in the room he said: 'What writest thou?' The vision raised its head, And... 
