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• Only Waiting

  [A very aged man in an almshouse was asked what he was doing now. He replied, “Only waiting.”]
  ONLY waiting till the shadows
  Are a little longer grown, …

  Frances Laughton Mace

• Hopefully Waiting

  “Blessed are they who are homesick, for they shall come at last to their Father’s house.”—HEINRICH STILLING.
  NOT as you meant, O learnèd man, and good!
  Do I accept thy words of truth and rest; …

  Anson Davies Fitz Randolph

• “Sit down, sad soul”

  Sit down, sad soul, and count
  The moments flying;
  Come, tell the sweet amount …

  Bryan Waller Procter

• “It kindles all my soul”

  From the Latin by John Mason Neale
  “Urit me Patriæ decor.”
  IT kindles all my soul, …

  Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski

• Crossing the Bar

  Sunset and evening star,
  And one clear call for me!
  And may there be no moaning of the bar, …

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson

• Ode; Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood

  I.
  there was a time when meadow, grove and stream,
  The earth, and every common sight, …

  William Wordsworth

• Soliloquy: On Immortality

  From “Cato,” Act V. Sc. 1.
  SCENE.—CATO, sitting in a thoughtful posture, with Plato’s book on the Immortality of the Soul in his hand, and a drawn sword on the table by him.
  IT must be so—Plato, thou reasonest well!— …

  Joseph Addison

• Edwin and Paulinus: The Conversion of Northumbria

  The Black-haired gaunt Paulinus
  By ruddy Edwin stood:—
  “Bow down, O king of Deira, …

  Anonymous

• The Undiscovered Country

  COULD we but know
  The land that ends our dark, uncertain travel,
  Where lie those happier hills and meadows low; …

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

• Song of the Silent Land

  Translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  “Das stille Land”
  INTO the Silent Land! …

  Johann Gaudenz von Salis-Seewis

• Thoughts of Heaven

  High thoughts!
  They come and go,
  Like the soft breathings of a listening maiden, …

  Robert Nicoll

• Meeting Above

  If yon bright stars which gem the night
  Be each a blissful dwelling-sphere
  Where kindred spirits reunite …

  William Leggett

• “My days among the dead”

  My days among the dead are passed;
  Around me I behold,
  Where’er these casual eyes are cast, …

  Robert Southey

• The Future Life

  How shall I know thee in the sphere which keeps
  The disembodied spirits of the dead,
  When all of thee that time could wither sleeps …

  William Cullen Bryant

• The Two Worlds

  Two worlds there are. To one our eyes we strain,
  Whose magic joys we shall not see again;
  Bright haze of morning veils its glimmering shore. …

  Mortimer Collins

• “Forever with the Lord”

  FOREVER with the Lord!
  Amen! so let it be!
  Life from the dead is in that word, …

  James Montgomery

• “To heaven approached a Sufi Saint”

  From the Persian by William R. Alger
  TO heaven approached a Sufi Saint,
  From groping in the darkness late, …

  Jalal ad-Din Rumi

• Matter and Man Immortal

  From “Night Thoughts,” Night VI.
  AS in a wheel, all sinks, to reascend:
  Emblems of man, who passes, not expires. …

  Edward Young

• The Spirit-Land

  Father! thy wonders do not singly stand,
  Nor far removed where feet have seldom strayed;
  Around us ever lies the enchanted land, …

  Jones Very

• “Tell me, ye wingèd winds”

  TELL me, ye wingèd winds,
  That round my pathway roar,
  Do ye not know some spot …

  Charles Mackay

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