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Friends of the children beholding
God's face, Moving like thought to us through the beyond,
Molded in beauty and free from our bond
--Percy Dearmer
Angels, sing on! your faithful watches keeping;
Sing us sweet fragments of the songs above;
Till morning's joy shall end the night of weeping,
And life's long shadows break in cloudless love.
--Frederick William Faber
Angels on our shoulder take us by the hand,
and with gentle, tender guidance
lead us to the promised land.
--Source unknown
Oh, th' exceeding grace of highest God
That loves His creatures so,
And all his works with mercy doth embrace,
that blessed angels He sends to and fro.
--Edmund Spencer
Sleep on in peace, await thy Maker's will,
Then rise unchanged, and be an Angel still.
--Epitaph on the tomb of Mary Angell
Silently one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven
Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Don't you hear those bells a-ringin'?
Don't you hear the angels singin'?
And it's glory, hallelujah! Jubilee!
--from Ring Those Golden Bells
A pillow for thee will I bring,
Stuffed with down of angel's wing.
--Richard Crashaw
Like living flame their faces seemed to glow,
Their wings were gold and all their bodies shone
More dazzling white than any earthly show
--Dante
And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams
Call to the soul when man doth sleep,
So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted themes,
And into glory peep.
--Henry Vaughan
None sing so wildly well
As the angel Israfel
And the giddy stars (so legneds tell)
Ceasing their hymns, attend the spell
Of his voice, all mute.
--Edgar Allen Poe
The angels keep their ancient places; turn but a stone and start a wing!
'Tis you, and your estranged faces, that miss the many-splendoured thing.
--Francis Thompson
Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth;
Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep.
--John Milton
Soft as the voice of an angel,
Breathing a lesson unheard,
Hope with a gentle persuasion
Whispers her comforting word:
Wait till the darkness is over,
Wait till the tempest is done,
Hope for the sunshine tomorrow,
After the shower is gone.
--Alice Hawthorne
I am a little world made cunningly of elements, and an angelic sprite.
--John Donne
Sleep, my child, and peace attend thee
All through the night.
Guardian angels God will send thee,
All through the night.
--Sir Harold Boulton
Outside the open window
The morning is all awash with angels.
--Richard Wilbur
They are idols of hearts and of households;
They are angels of God in disguise;
The sunlight that sleeps in their tresses,
His glory still gleams in their eyes;
These truants from home and from Heaven,
They have made me more manly and mild;
And I know now how Jesus could liken
The kingdom of God to a child.
--Charles Monroe Dickinson
Now let us sing the Angels' song,
That rang so sweet and clear,
When heav'nly light and music fell
On earthly eye and ear.
To Him we sing, our Savior King,
Who always waits to hear.
--19th Century Hymn
How sweetly did they float upon the wings of silence through the empty-vaulted night.
--John Milton
Sweet souls around us watch us still,
Press nearer to our side;
Into our thoughts, into our prayers,
With gentle helpings glide.
--Harriet Beecher Stowe
Thy path shall be a track of light,
like angel's footsteps in the night.
--Church inscription
Life is so generous a giver, but we,
Judging its gifts by their covering,
Cast them away as ugly, or heavy, or hard.
Remove the covering, and you will find hidden beneath it
A living splendor, woven of love,
by wisdom, with power.
Welcome it, grasp it, and you touch the
Angel's hand that brings it to you.
Everything we call a trial, a sorrow,
or a duty,
Believe me, that Angel's hand is there.
--Fra Giovanni
Unless you can love as the angels may ...
Oh never call it loving.
--Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I will not wish thee riches nor the glow of greatness,
but that wherever thou go,
some weary heart shall gladden at thy smile,
or shadowed life know sunshine for awhile.
And so thy path shall be a track of light,
like angels' footsteps passing through the night.
--Words on a church wall in Upwaltham, England
And with the morn
Those angel faces smile
Which I have loved long since,
and lost awhile.
--John Henry Newman
May flights of angels led you on your way
To paradise, and heav' n's eternal day!
May martyrs greet you after death's dark night.
And bid you enter into Zion's light!
May choirs of angels sing you to your rest
With once poor Laz' rus, now forever blest!
--Traditional hymn
Angels on our shoulder take us by the hand,.
and with gentle, tender guidance.
lead us to the promised land..
--Source unknown
Falling backward into the snow the air icy and silent . . .
With a look toward Heaven, I swept my arms and legs
back and forth,
Making my own personal angel.
--Anonymous
The angels all were singing out of tune,
And hoarse with having little else to do,
Excepting to wind up the sun and moon,
Or curb a runaway young star or two.
--Lord Byron
Once in a Saintly Passion
Once in a saintly passion
I cried with desperate grief,
"O Lord, my heart is black with guile,
Of sinners I am chief."
Then stooped my guardian angel
And whispered from behind
"Vanity, my little man,
You're nothing of the kind."
--James Thomson
I will not wish thee riches nor the glow of greatness, but that wherever
you go . . . your path shall be a track of light, like Angels' footsteps
passing through the night.
--Inscription on a church
'Tis only when they spring to heaven that angels reveal themselves to you.
--Robert Browning
What know we of the Blest above, but that they sing, and that they love.
--William Wordsworth
But all God's angels come to us disguised:
Sorrow and sickness, poverty and death,
One after another lift their frowning masks,
And we behold the Seaph's face beneath,
Radiant with the glory and the calm
Of having looked upon the front of God.
--James Russell Lowell
If a fairy, or a man, or a woman
Hath overlooked thee,
There are three greater in heaven
Who will cast all evil from thee
Into the great and terrible sea.
Pray to them, and to the seven angels of God,
And they will watch over thee.
--Irish Blessing
Angels, in the early morning
May be seen the Dews among,
Stooping - plucking - smiling - flying -
Do the Buds to them belong?
Angels, when the sun is hottest
May be seen the sands among,
Stooping - plucking - sighing - flying -
Parched the flowers they bear along.
--Emily Dickinson
My childhood's earliest thoughts are linked with thee;
The sight of thee calls back the robin's song,
Who from the dark old tree
Beside the door, sang clearly all day long,
And I, secure in childish piety,
Listened as if I heard an angel sing
With news from heaven, which he could bring
Fresh every day to my untainted ears
When birds and flowers and I were happy peers.
--James Russell Lowell
The feather, whence the pen
Was shaped that traces the lives of these good men,
Dropped from an angel's wing.
--John Milton
How Fading are the joys we dote upon!
Like apparitions seen and gone.
But those which soonest take their flight
Are the most exquisite and strong--
Like angels' visits, short and bright;
Mortality's too weak to bear them long.
--John Norris
All day I have been tossed and whirled in a preposterous happiness:
Was it an elf in the blood? or a bird in the brain? or even part
Of the cloudily crested, fifty-league long, loud uplifted wave
Of a journeying angel's transit roaring over and through my heart?
--C. S. Lewis
Laughter is a melody,
a concert from the heart,
a tickling by the angels,
creative living art.
--Serene West
Spread the gospel's joyful tidings,
brought from angels from above,
Tell the world that God is gracious,
and His very name if Love.
--D. B. Towne
Cease every joy, to glimmer on my mind,
But leave, oh leave the light of Hope behind!
What though my winged hours of bliss have been,
Like angel visits, few and far between.
--Thomas Campbell
Think, In mounting higher,
The angels would press on
us, and aspire
To drop some golden orb
of perfect song
Into our deep, dear silence.
--Elizabeth Barrett Browning
As once the winged energy delight
carried you over childhood's dark abysses,
now beyond your own life build the great
arch of unimagined bridges.
Wonders happen if we can succeed
in passing through the hardest danger;
but only in a bright and purely granted
achievement can we realize the wonder.
To work with Things in the indescribable
relationship is not too hard for us;
The pattern grows more intricate and subtle,
and being swept along is not enough.
Take your practiced powers and stretch them out
until they span the chasm between two
contraditictions . . . For the God
wants to know Himself in you.
--Rainer Maria Rilke
Angels where ere we go,
Attend our steps whate'er betide.
With watchful care
their charge attend,
And evil turn aside.
--Charles Wesley
Angels at the foot,
And Angels at the head,
And like a curly little lamb
My pretty babe in bed.
--Christina Rossetti
Spread the gospel's joyful tidings,
brought from angels from above,
Tell the world that God is gracious,
and His very name is Love.
--D. B. Towner
"I'll lend you for a little time a child of mine," he said,
"For you to love the while she lives and mourn for when she's dead,
It may be six or seven years or twenty-two or three,
But will you, till I call her back, take care of her for me?
She'll bring her charms to gladden you, and should her stay be brief,
You'll have her lovely memories as solace for your grief.
I cannot promise she will stay, since all from earth return,
But there are lessons taught down there I want this child to learn.
I've looked the wide world over in my search for teachers true;
And, from the throngs that crowd life's lanes, I have selected you.
Now will you give her all your love, not think the labor vain,
Nor hate me when I come to call and take her back again?"
I fancied that I heard them say, "Dear Lord, thy will be done!"
"For all the joy the child shall bring, the risk of grief we'll run;
We'll shelter her with tenderness, we'll love her while we may,
And for the happiness we've known forever grateful stay;
But should the angels call for her, much sooner than we've planned,
We'll brave the bitter grief that comes and try to understand."
--Source unknown
ANGEL of CHRISTMAS
Angel of Christmas... Angel of Light...
Guiding our wishes through Heaven tonight
A wish for a friend who is now far away...
A wish for a Lover to come back someday.
Angel of Christmas... take with you in flight
The dreams and the wishes we send forth this night
A wish for the world... to find Peace and Joy
A wish for a child to find a new toy
With a light in His eyes.... and a gleam in Her smile
and a blanket of warmth cover them all the while
And please keep them safe on this special night
giving them dreams of sweetness and light
Angel of Christmas....you hold under your wing
All of our prayers ... and our hopes ... and our Christmas Dreams
--Source unknown
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