 And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love; And these black bodies and this sunburnt face...  Stories from My Attic - Page 15by Horace Elisha Scudder - 1896 - 269 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Monthly literary register - 1839 - 744 pages
...souls have learn'd the heat to bear, The clouds will vanish, we shall hear His voice, Saying, ' Come from the grove, my love and care, And round my golden...me ; And thus I say to little English boy, — When 1 from black, and he from white cloud free, And round the tent of God like lambs we joy, I'1l shade... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...souls have learnt the heat to bear, The clouds will vanish, we shall hear his voice, Saying, ' Come from the grove, my love and care, And round my golden..." Thus did my mother say, and kissed me ; And thus say I to little English boy, — When I frovi black, and he from white cloud free, And round the tent... | |
 | American poetry - 1854 - 456 pages
...souls have learnt the heat to bear, The clouds will vanish, we shall hear his voice, Saying, ' Come from the grove, my love and care, And round my golden..." Thus did my mother say, and kissed me ; And thus say I to little English boy — When I from black and he from white cloud free, And round the tent... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - American poetry - 1855 - 452 pages
...souls have learnt the heat to bear, The clouds will vanish, we shall hear his voice, Saying, ' Come from the grove, my love and care. And round my golden..." Thus did my mother say, and kissed me ; And thus say I to little English boy — When I from black and he from white cloud free, And round the tent... | |
 | American poetry - 1855 - 458 pages
...souls have learnt the heat to hear. The clouds will vanish, we shall hear his voice, Saying, ' Come from the grove, my love and care, And round my golden..." Thus did my mother say, and kissed me ; And thus say I to little English boy — When I from black and he from white cloud free, And round the tent... | |
 | Theology - 1868 - 904 pages
...grove. " ' For when our souli have learnt the heat to bear, The cloud will vanish, we shall hear liia voice Saying, Come out from the grove, my love and...did my mother say, and kissed me ; And thus I say to litlle English boy : When I from black and he from white cloud free, And round the tent of Qod like... | |
 | Literature - 1880 - 996 pages
...that flawless poem, the " Little Black Boy," with its tender pity so unsurpassably expressed : — " And we are put on earth a little space, That we may...will vanish, we shall hear His voice. Saying, 'Come from the grove, my love and care, And round my golden tent like lambs rejoice : ' " the sobbing of... | |
 | Theology - 1870 - 588 pages
...bodies and this sunburnt face Are but a cloud, and like a shady grove. ' For when our souls have leam'd the heat to bear, The cloud will vanish ; we shall hear His Toice, Saying, " Come out from the grave, my love and care, And round my golden tent like lambs rejoice.'"... | |
 | Arithmetic - 1872 - 136 pages
...bodies and this sunburnt face Are but a cloud, and like a shady grove. " For when our souls have learned the heat to bear, The cloud will vanish, we shall...English boy : When I from black, and he from white clond free, And round the tent of God like lambs we joy, I'll shade him from the heat till he can bear... | |
 | James Thomas Fields - American literature - 1884 - 988 pages
...bodies and this sunburnt face Are but a cloud, and like a shady grove. " For when our souls have learned the heat to bear, The cloud will vanish, we shall...rejoice.' " Thus did my mother say, and kissed me, And thua I say to little English boy : When I from black, and he from white cloud free, And round the tent... | |
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