“What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers
May be heaven's distant lamps.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Resignation
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Resignation
“The air is full of farewells to the dying,
And mournings for the dead.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Resignation
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Resignation
“Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution,
She lives whom we call dead.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Resignation
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Resignation
“But oftentimes celestial benedictions
Assume this dark disguise.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Resignation
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Resignation
