John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes About Angels

Quotes about: Angels

• With silence only as their benediction, God's angels come Where in the shadow of a great affliction, The soul sits dumb!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Angel, Silence, Dumb

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.138

• Blow, bugles of battle, the marches of peace; East, west, north, and south let the long quarrel cease; Sing the song of great joy that the angels began, Sing the glory to God and of good-will to man!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Christmas, Song, Angel

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.393

• Happy he whose inward ear Angel comfortings can hear, O'er the rabble's laughter; And, while Hatred's fagots burn, Glimpses through the smoke discern Of the good hereafter.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Laughter, Angel, Hatred

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.122

• The Present, the Present is all thou hast
  For thy sure possessing;
  Like the patriarch's angel hold it fast
  Till it gives its blessing.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Angel, Blessing, Giving

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.94

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