 And so beside the Silent Sea I wait the muffled oar ; No harm from Him can come to me On ocean or on shore. I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care.  Studies in Poetry and Criticism - Página 41de John Churton Collins - 1905 - 309 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1873 - 424 páginas
...have, Nor works my faith to prove ; I can but give the gifts He gave, And plead His love for love. And so beside the Silent Sea I wait the muffled oar...only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care. 0 brothers ! if my faith is vain, If hopes like these betray, Pray for me that my feet may gain The... | |
 | James Bonwick - 1873 - 310 páginas
...what the future hath Of marvel or surprise, Assured alone that life or death His mercy underlies.' ' And so beside the silent sea I wait the muffled oar;...only know I cannot drift Beyond his love and care.' CHAPTER IX. ASCENT OF MOUNT WELLINGTON. ( A PARTY was made up for Boxing-Day. Some proposed spending... | |
 | Edwin Courtland Bolles - 1873 - 778 páginas
...are weak To bear an untried pain, The bruised reed he will not break, But strengthen and sustain. 4 And so beside the silent sea I wait the muffled oar ; No harm from him can come to uic On ocean or on shore. 5 I know not where his islands lift Their fronded jmlms in air; I only know... | |
 | 1873 - 824 páginas
...palms in air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond his love and care. " And so beside the silent sea 1 wait the muffled, oar ; No harm from him can come to me On ocean or on shore." " How often we forget to thank God for the present blessings he is loading us with, while we are anticipating... | |
 | Mary Wilder Tileston - 1874 - 200 páginas
...have, Nor works my faith to prove : I can but give the gifts He gave, And plead His love for love. And so beside the Silent Sea I wait the muffled oar...only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care. JOHN G. WHITTIRR. HYMN FOR THE MOTHER. TV /TY child is lying on my knees ; •"•*- The signs of heaven... | |
 | Anna Bartlett Warner - 1874 - 158 páginas
...not gone on, wondering at the prepared way, at the shorn difficulties, at the unexpected success ? ' I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms...only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care ! ' It is not said that the disciples went off this time with any such misgivings, any such reassuring... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1874 - 500 páginas
...have, Nor works my faith to prove ; I can hut give the gifts He gave, And plead His love for love. And so beside the Silent Sea I wait the muffled oar; No harm from Him can come to ma On ocean or on shore. I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air ; I only know... | |
 | Edwards Amasa Park - 1874 - 112 páginas
...the state of mind which Whittier expresses, in those beautiful lines, — " I know not where Thine islands lift Their fronded palms in air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond Thy love and care." He started, with a sudden energy of gesture always peculiar to him, and striking... | |
 | 1875 - 606 páginas
...understanding ; " a state of mind thus beautifully expressed by the noblest of American poets : •' And so, beside the silent sea, I wait the muffled...only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care." But they know even more than this. They know that "in their Father's house are many mansions," and... | |
 | 1875 - 444 páginas
...what the future hath Of marvel or surprise, Assured alone that life and death His mercy underlies. And so beside the silent sea I wait the muffled oar...only know I cannot drift , Beyond His love and care. —Whittier. WRECKED. THE storm-king rides upon the sea, And loud the breakers roar; The wind is still,... | |
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