 | William Cox Bennett - 1870 - 202 pągines
...Character of a Happy Life . 70 THE SCHOOL BOOK OF POETRY. ABOU BEN ADHEM AND THE ANGEL.— (Leigh Hunt). Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase !) Awoke one...a book of gold : — Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said, "What writest thou ?" — The vision raised its... | |
 | Alexander Kennedy Isbister - 1870 - 420 pągines
...and is only the brighter and gayer for the hoar-frost. Raskin,. , 59. Abou Ben Adhem and the Angel. Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase) Awoke one...in a book of gold :— Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said, ' What writest thou ?' The vision raised its head,... | |
 | Alexander Kennedy Isbister - 1870 - 104 pągines
...and is only the brighter and gayer for the hoar-frost. Ruskin. Ex. 59. Abou Ben AdJiem and the Angel. Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase) Awoke one...a book of gold : — Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said, ' What writest thou ? ' The vision raised its... | |
 | English poems - 1870 - 722 pągines
...from Mount Hybla," "Imagination and Fancy," "Old Court Suburb," "The Book of the Sonnet," &c.] A BOU BEN ADHEM (may his tribe increase !) **• Awoke one...writing in a book of gold : Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bolt!. And to the Presence in the room he said, "What writest thou?" — The vision raised its... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - 1870 - 416 pągines
...friends, more sure than day or night— Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death." " Abou Ben Adhcru (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep...writing in a book of gold : Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the Presence in the room he said, 'What writest thou?' The vision raised its head,... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 pągines
...this natural song, Indoors and out, summer and winter, — mirth. 38S ABOU BEN ADHEM AND THE ANGEL. ABOU BEN ADHEM — may his tribe increase ! — Awoke...writing in a book of gold. Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said, " What writest thou ? " The vision raised its... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1879 - 372 pągines
...include various translations, dramas, novels, collections of essays, and poems. 1. ABOU BEN ADIIEM (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep...lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold. 2. Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold; And to the presence in the room he said, "What writest... | |
 | 272 pągines
...the arms are at last extended to receive the absentee. A PERFECT GEM. iEOU EEN ADHEM AND THE ANGEL. Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase ! ) Awoke one...writing in a book of gold ; Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold : And to the presence in the room he said, " What writest thou ?" The vision rais'd its... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1992 - 226 pągines
...by altering its last two lines to: "Say I've had a filthy cold / Since Jenny kiss'd Abou Ben Adhem Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one...in a book of gold: — Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said, 'What writest thou?' — The vision rais'd its... | |
 | Richard Swinburne - 1992 - 250 pągines
...Truth and Illusion'. brings this out is worth quoting in full — Leigh Hunt's poem, 'Abou Ben Adhem': Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one...in a book of gold: — Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said, 'What writest thou?' — The vision rais'd its... | |
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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... 
