 ABOU BEN ADHEM (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold: Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to...  Adult Elementary Education - Page 367by Huldah Florence Cook, Edith May Walker - 1927 - 407 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ezra Stiles Gannett - 1853 - 66 pages
...Hunt; which, familiar as they may be, no one probably will complain of my repeating in this connection. Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase !) Awoke one...deep dream of peace, And saw within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold. Exceeding... | |
 | H. C. Foster - 1853 - 378 pages
...meet in happy air, — A child, a friend, a wife, whose soft heart sings ABOU HEN ADHEM AND THE ANGEL. ABOU BEN ADHEM (may his tribe increase !) Awoke one...deep dream of peace, And saw, within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom, An angel, writing in a book of gold : Exceeding... | |
 | 1853 - 560 pages
...cowards? Alas ! not all the blood of all the Howards. POPE. — [From the "Essay on Man."] LE10H HUNT. 17 ABOU BEN ADHEM (may his tribe increase) Awoke one...deep dream of peace, And saw, within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom, An Angel, writing in a book of gold : — Exceeding... | |
 | 1853 - 428 pages
...it. Leigh Hunt, it is stated, first put into verse the following BEAUTIFUL PARABLE. "Abou Ben Ailcm, (may his tribe increase,) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw within the moonlight of bis room, Making it rich, and like a lily bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold. Exceeding peace... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1853 - 354 pages
...a guise no graver or more pretentious than this : Abou-Ben-Adhem, (may his tribe increase !) Awcke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw within the moonlight in his room, — Making it rich and like a lily in bloom — An angel, writing in a book of gold :... | |
 | Universalist Church of America. General Convention. New York, 1852 - 1853 - 296 pages
...and beauty" in the parable, so beautifully paraphrased by Leigh Hunt : '• Abou Ben Adem. (may hii tribe increase.) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace. And taw within the moonlight of his room, Making it rich, and like a lily bloom, An angel writing in a... | |
 | 1854 - 402 pages
...such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them." BEN ADHEM'S DREAM. ABOU BEN ADHEM (may his tribe increase, ) Awoke one...within the moonlight of his room, Making it rich, like a lily in full bloom, An Angel writing in a book of gold ; Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1854 - 388 pages
...whose soft heart sings In unison with ours, breeding its future wings. ABOTJ BEN ADHEM AND THE ANGEL. ABOU BEN ADHEM (may his tribe increase !) Awoke one...deep dream of peace, And saw, within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom, An angel, writing in a book of gold : Exceeding... | |
 | Abiel Abbot Livermore - 1854 - 276 pages
...parable of Abou Jien Adhem and the Angel cannot be repeated too often, so let it be read here. t ' Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase ! ) Awoke one...deep dream of peace, And saw, within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich; and like a lily in bloom, An angel, writing in a book of gold. Exceeding... | |
 | 1854 - 456 pages
...within itself the seed Of future good and future need ; ABOU BEN ADHEM AND THE ANGEL. — Leigh Hunt. ABOU BEN ADHEM (may his tribe increase !) Awoke one...deep dream of peace, And saw, within the moonlight in his room, Makmg it rich, and like a lily in bloom, An angel, writing in a book of gold ; Exceeding... | |
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