Seeming – Page 2

How happy they are,

How happy they are, in all seeming, How gay, or how smilingly proud, How brightly their faces are beaming, These people who make up the crowd! Ella Wheeler Wilcox

With the help of the Lord, you can handle life’s challenges and heartaches, even the valley of the shadow of death. What comfort your fainting heart has, knowing that in those stumbling times of discouragement and despair, of depletion and seeming defeat, the Shepherd will find you…restore and \”fix\” you…and follow you…until you are well … Read more

whenever possible I avoid

whenever possible I avoid talking. Reprieve from talking is my idea of a holiday. At risk of seeming unsociable, which I am, I admit I love to be left in a beatific trance, when I am in one. Friendly Romans recognize that wish. Elizabeth Bowen

Some souls are ennobled

Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise. Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Through every rift of

Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order. Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Seeming devotion does but

Seeming devotion does but gild a knave, That’s neither faithful, honest, just, nor brave; But where religion does with virtue join, It makes a hero like an angel shine. Edmund Waller

And the Raven, never

And the Raven, never flitting, Still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas Just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming Of a demon’s that is dreaming, And the lamplight o’er him streaming Throws his shadow on the floor, And my soul from out that shadow, That … Read more

How happy they are,

With the help of

whenever possible I avoid

Some souls are ennobled

Through every rift of

Seeming devotion does but

And the Raven, never

Nothing that you plan

The universe is seeming

Seeming\’s enough for slaves