The rapture of the meeting, the terrible, terrible parting, again and again the tragedy is acted over.
I always think of that sovereign, that rapture of raspberry-tarts, which made my young days happy.
The gentleman gave me brandy-and-water," she said, her old voice shaking with raptureat the thought.
One cannot quickly enough tear himself from the sweet rapture which it leaves behind, and return to a regular and laborious occupation.
So in love and loftyrapture Are we evermore abiding, Since that lurid life subsiding, In the day grew pale; Since the pyre its sparkles scattered, And the sod above us sinking, From around the spirit shrinking Melted then the earthly veil.
Then flowed there not A shudder of sweet rapture over you?
Maurice to his desk turned again and once more Began to unburden his bosom and pour His heart out on paper--the poet's relief, When drunk with life's rapture or sick with its grief.
Yet once in a while there is wisdom I hold In leaving the things that are dearer than gold,-- Loved people and places--if only to learn The exquisite rapture it is to return.
The world seemed afar, with its dullness and duty, And life was a rapture of love and of beauty.
If I were a rain drop, and you were a leaf, I would burst from the cloud above you And lie on your breast in a rapture of rest, And love you, love you, love you.
It leaped to the heavens, it sank to the earth It gave life new rapture and love a new birth.
Ah, brief Is therapture such souls find, and long is their grief, Black their sin, blurred their record, and scarlet their shame.
Day after day he paced the beach for miles together, pursuing the new vision, the new rapture of the stimulated sense.
They perceive so acutely the realities, the conditions, of life, that an hour of rapture makes them more quick to the pain behind and before.
At first, in a rhythm of rapture and of terror, the time went by, now with flying, now with faltering feet.
It was like a shaft of sunshine; the rapture of the look startled him.
Such is the callousness of youth, that it was a moment of scarcely clouded rapture to the younger generation when John Gano decided to stay at home and prune the dogwoods.
Then back like a flood-tide of sunshine would come the thought of the missionary and his love for her, and everything else would be obliterated in the rapture it brought.
The rapture of his face and the tenderness of his arms assured her on that point.
While he spoke this, he had again taken my hand, and pressed it with rapture to his bosom, which, beating with violence, I own caused no small emotion in mine.
When God revealed his gracious name, And changed my mournful state, My rapture seemed a pleasing dream, The grace appeared so great.
Let all with harmony of voice, In lofty praises join; Let every soul in Christ rejoice, With rapture all divine.
Wayfaring men therein shall walk, And of their home and kindred talk, With rapture and delight.
He shall his Lord with rapture see And be with honor crowned.
O, may our souls with rapture trace Thy works of nature and of grace: Explore thy sacred truth, and still Press on to know and do thy will.
Heart and voice with rapture swelling, Still the song of glory raise; On the theme immortal dwelling, Join the universal praise.
Spread glist'ning and afar, And on the hallowedrapture rings From circling star to star.
As the evening shadows gather O'er us, from thy holy hill May thy blessing, righteous Father, Like the evening dew distil; And thy presence Every heart with rapture fill!
Dwell with rapture on the theme; Loud, still louder, swell the strain: Peace on earth, good will to men.
Still the rose and still the rapture Woven through the tangled skein, And the joys we still shall capture At the turning of the lane.
The glories of His love With life and light supernal are waiting there above, And up the slopes of shadow our weary feet shall climb To kiss the smiles of rapture beyond the tears of time.
And whether the paths are easy And whether the roads are long, There is rapture still For the ache and ill, As we wander the ways with song!
Where royal music rings, Where lips are red with laughter and romping rapture sings, We'll find surcease of sorrow and Care shall die away While the feet shall dance the music of happiness for aye!
In your happy soul abound All the airs of royal rapture that the golden cycles found, And the willing fingers waiting are staying close about, Just to pick your heart to pieces and to coax the music out!
How the feet, ever striving, slow stepped from the past Till they found the sweet music of rapture at last!
The lonely heart with rapture fills And life's hot warrings cool, And all the home with laughter thrills When Willie comes from school!
But under a placid demeanour he concealed a sensitive and enthusiastic nature, a nature of fire and spirit, subject to raptures and despairs, and desiring rapture almost as a necessity.
It was a joy the very essence of which seemed of the rapture of heaven.
There was a rapture of self-sacrifice and devotion in the woman's voice and manner.
It was forbidden too by the moments of rapture which she excited and which she shared; they were still untouched--the fairy rides on fairy horses.
Had not she too known the rapture of that advancing flood of feeling--yes, though the flood flowed where it should not?
Pierced on his throne the slarting Thunderer turns, Melts with soft sighs, with kindling rapture burns; Clasps her fair hand, and eyes in fond amaze The bright Intruder with enamour'd gaze.
My name is Phoebe," said the maiden, in order to sober the enthusiastic rapturewhich he either felt or affected.
They had patterns from Liberty's and Peter Robinson's and Woolland's in London, and a solid week of rapture ensued while Mabel saw herself gowned in a hundred gowns and fixed on none.
He could not have understood her sigh ofrapture if he had tried to.
Her eyes indeed, commonly so sober in their expression, were bright with a kind of rapture which puzzled Orion.
But, when he was alone with his mother once more, he had felt happier and happier, and the remembrance of the transient rapture he had known had alleviated the pain he was suffering on Katharina's account.
They sat looking in their laps, gazing in rapture up to heaven, or at the dazzling ripples and the lotos flowers on the surface.
Had not the little girl's confidences revealed a world of rapture to her and her longing heart?
If to the emotions with which I then looked on them were added the passionate love of home and country which a long absence creates, such excess of rapture would be almost too great to be borne.
Even those who are used to the sight look at it in speechless raptureand wonder.
Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine: I have never heard Praise of love or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine.
And the old gentleman was so enchanted that scarce a week after he died from rapture and paralysis combined, without even having time to remember his fair bride in his will!
His head was full of merry thoughts, there was nothing butrapture in his heart.
Captain Copplestone's rapture knew no bounds when he clasped little Gertrude in his arms once more.
A look of positive rapture mingled with the habitual cunning of the groom's countenance as he received this donation.
All my unhappy existence down to the present has not been worth as much to me as these last few days of flight and travel, this rapture of escape, for a time, from that grey, silky web wherein I am a prisoner.
In an aside] It seems as though I had suddenly become two personalities, a new rapture and unknown hopes fill my bewildered heart.
The gentleman gave me brandy-and- water," she said, her old voice shaking withrapture at the thought.
Fanny showed no rapture in the prospect of thus returning to the bosom of her family.
They flowed on in a warm, mute rhetoric, till suddenly the Comic Spirit was there, and patriotic rapture began to see itself.
The rapture at their deliverance overcame all other sentiments; they had no thought for the ups and downs of the war, and many, indeed, were still unaware of the causes that had led them to share in it.
From windows and balconies soon hung strips of colour, national emblems, gathered from hither and thither to mark a rapture that it was impossible for human tongue to describe.
The Kaffirs and coolies gave expression to their rapture by dances and shouts that relieved the almost solemn ecstasy of the moment.
