 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1893 - 462 pages
...And a true heart of hope, though hope be vain 1 Meekly to bear with wrong, to cheer decay, And, oh I to love through all things — therefore pray ! And take the thought of this calm vesper-time, With its low murmuring sounds and silvery light. On through the dark days fading from... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1896 - 794 pages
...And to bewail that worship : therefore pray ! Her lot is on you, — to be found untired, Watching the stars out by the bed of pain, With a pale cheek,...And, oh, to love through all things: therefore pray! MRS. HEMANS: Evening Prayer at a Girls' SciwI. Thou hast a charmed cup, O Fame ! A draught that mantles... | |
 | Mildred Lewis Rutherford - English literature - 1906 - 806 pages
...And to bewail that worship,— thereiore pray ! Her lot is on yon,— to be found untired, Watching the stars out by the bed of pain, With a pale cheek,...cheer decay. And, oh ! to love through all things,— thereiore pray ! And take the thought of this calm vesper-time, With its low murmuring sounds and silvery... | |
 | Le Baron Russell Briggs - Essays - 1911 - 128 pages
...And to bewail that worship. Therefore pray I •' Her lot is on you — to be found untired, Watching the stars out by the bed of pain. With a pale cheek,...And, oh ! to love through all things. Therefore pray I" In some things it may be well that emotion is greater than logic ; but emotion in logic is sad to... | |
 | Le Baron Russell Briggs - Education and women - 1911 - 182 pages
...clay. And to bewail that worship. Therefore pray! " Her lot is on you — to be found untired, Watching the stars out by the bed of pain, With a pale cheek,...Meekly to bear with wrong, to cheer decay. And, oh I to love through all things. Therefore pray I " In some things it may be well that emotion is greater... | |
 | Le Baron Russell Briggs - Essays - 1911 - 136 pages
...clay, And to bewail that worship. Therefore pray! " Her lot is on you — to be found untired, Watching the stars out by the bed of pain, With a pale cheek,...Meekly to bear with wrong, to cheer decay. And, oh I to love through all things. Therefore pray I " In some things it may be well that emotion is greater... | |
 | 1830 - 594 pages
...And to bewail that worship — therefore pray ! ' Her lot is on you ! to be found untired, Watching the stars out by the bed of pain, With a pale cheek,...oh ! to love through all things — therefore pray !' There is a fine and stately solemnity in these lines on 'The ' Lost Pleiad :' ' Hath the night lost... | |
 | Carol Shiner Wilson, Joel Haefner - English literature - 1994 - 356 pages
...of a rueful female (if not feminist) solidarity: Her lot is on you — to be found untired. Watching the stars out by the bed of pain. With a pale cheek,...And oh! to love through all things. Therefore pray! (479) The scene of the girls' innocent prayer evolves into a prefigurative image of their only consolation... | |
 | John Chapple - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 524 pages
...'Evening Prayer at a Girls' School'. One stanza reads: Her lot is on you - to be found untired, Watching the stars out by the bed of pain, With a pale cheek,...And, oh! to love through all things - therefore pray! This is as almost as far from being a clarion call for female independence as it could be; nevertheless,... | |
 | Thomas Pfau, Robert F. Gleckner - Art - 1998 - 492 pages
...sound like a bitter, prefigurative consolation for the looming domestic afflictions to the female soul: "Meekly to bear with wrong, to cheer decay, / And oh! to love through all things. Therefore pray!" If prayer is the language of the soul, Hemans's scene of instruction is devastating, for its deepest... | |
| |
Her lot is on you !— to be found untired, Watching the stars out by the bed of pain, With a pale cheek, and yet a brow inspired, And a true heart of hope, though hope be vain ; Meekly to bear with wrong, to cheer decay, And oh ! to love through all... 
