 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1838 - 336 pages
...touches of transporting fear. ABOU BEN ADHEM AND THE ANGEL. ABOU Ben Adhem (may his trihe increase !) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw,...moonlight in his room, Making it rich, and like a lily in hloom. An angel, writing in a hook of gold ; Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem hold And to the presence... | |
 | John Greenleaf Adams - Christian life - 1840 - 282 pages
...in the subjoined poetical sketch of an eminent writer. " Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase !) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw...moonlight in his room, Making it rich and like a lily bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold. Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold ; And to the presence... | |
 | George Washington Montgomery - Kindness - 1841 - 232 pages
...THE BLESSINGS AND DUTY OP PRACTICING THE LAW OF KINDNESS. " Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw within the moonlighl in his room, Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold... | |
 | Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - Transcendentalism - 1844 - 556 pages
...modest for the light of day. ABOU BEN ADHEM. BY LEIGH HUNT. Abou Ben Adhem, (may 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 angel writing in a book of gold ; Exceeding peace... | |
 | William Bentley Fowle - Recitations - 1844 - 302 pages
...is an imitation of the Urirntal Hyle of composition. '• Abon Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase !) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw within the moonlight of his room, Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom, An angel, writing in a book of gold. — Exceeding... | |
 | John Turner Sargent, Theodore Parker - Unitarian churches - 1845 - 26 pages
...i;;;:i ; V \ % \-» -S* ' c, • . *• f ' * ' / I •( '' ABON BEN ADHEM (may his tribe increase,) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw,...the moonlight in his room, Making it rich and like a lilly in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold. Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold ; And to... | |
 | Henry Clapp - American literature - 1846 - 238 pages
...the tablet of your hearts. ABOU BEN ADHEM. BY LEIOH BUST. Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase ! ) Awoke, one night, from a deep dream of peace, And saw within the moonlight in his room, Miking it rich and like a lily in bloom, An Angel writing in a book of gold ; — And to the presence... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1847 - 396 pages
...and the Child ! ABOU BEN ADHEM AND THE ANGEL.— LEIQB Hour. ABOU BEN ADHEM (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw,...moonlight in his room, Making it rich, and like a lily bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold. Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold ; And to the presence... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - Elocution - 1847 - 344 pages
...take me there! LESSON XVI. Abou Ben Adhcm. — LEIGH HUNT. ABOU Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw within the moonlight of his room, Making it rich and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold. Exceeding... | |
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... 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... 
