Poems of the inner life, selected chiefly from modern authors [by R.C. Jones].1872 |
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... 170 C. Turner 171 A. H. Clough 171 F. A. Kemble 172 A. H. Clough 173 A. H. Clough 174 Hartley Coleridge 175 M. B. Smedley 176 Dante G. Rossetti 178 W. C. Roscoe 178 Love . The Kingdom of God . Loved once . CONTENTS . X111.
... 170 C. Turner 171 A. H. Clough 171 F. A. Kemble 172 A. H. Clough 173 A. H. Clough 174 Hartley Coleridge 175 M. B. Smedley 176 Dante G. Rossetti 178 W. C. Roscoe 178 Love . The Kingdom of God . Loved once . CONTENTS . X111.
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... once . Faith , Hope , and Charity Enosis Love's Deep Life . Love in Tears An Angel in the House Sonnet • To my Mother Love on Earth To a Friend The Revelation What were I , Love Eternal Love PEACE . The Peace of God The Sleep The Starry ...
... once . Faith , Hope , and Charity Enosis Love's Deep Life . Love in Tears An Angel in the House Sonnet • To my Mother Love on Earth To a Friend The Revelation What were I , Love Eternal Love PEACE . The Peace of God The Sleep The Starry ...
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... companions of our way , Whate'er the senses take or may refuse , The Mind's internal heaven shall shed her dews Of inspiration on the humblest lay . WORDSWORTH . THE GLORY OF NATURE . F only once the chariot B 2 GIFTS The Inner Vision.
... companions of our way , Whate'er the senses take or may refuse , The Mind's internal heaven shall shed her dews Of inspiration on the humblest lay . WORDSWORTH . THE GLORY OF NATURE . F only once the chariot B 2 GIFTS The Inner Vision.
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... once the unimaginable sun Flashed godlike through perennial clouds forlorn , And shown us Beauty for a moment born ; If only once blind eyes had seen the Spring , Waking amid the triumphs of mid - noon ; But once had seen the lovely ...
... once the unimaginable sun Flashed godlike through perennial clouds forlorn , And shown us Beauty for a moment born ; If only once blind eyes had seen the Spring , Waking amid the triumphs of mid - noon ; But once had seen the lovely ...
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... once more Stepping o'er Winter's grave forlorn With winged feet retreads the shore Of widowed Earth , his bosom burn ? As ordered flower succeeds to flower , And May the ladder of her sweets Ascends , advancing hour by hour From scale ...
... once more Stepping o'er Winter's grave forlorn With winged feet retreads the shore Of widowed Earth , his bosom burn ? As ordered flower succeeds to flower , And May the ladder of her sweets Ascends , advancing hour by hour From scale ...
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Page 18 - Deserves to be printed in letters of gold, and circulated in every house. " — Chambers Journal. II. About in the World. Essays by the Author of "The Gentle Life.
Page 169 - Kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom, ••— ' Lead Thou me on ! The night is dark, and •I am far from home — Lead Thou me on ! Keep Thou my feet ; I do not -ask to see The distant scene, — one step enough for me.
Page 239 - FEAR death ? — to feel the fog in my throat, The mist in my face, When the snows begin, and the blasts denote I am nearing the place, The power of the night, the press of the storm, The post of the foe ; Where he stands, the Arch Fear in a visible form, Yet the strong man must go...
Page 91 - Let us (said he) pour on him all we can : Let the world's riches, which dispersed lie, Contract into a span. So strength first made a way ; Then beauty flow'd, then wisdom, honour, pleasure : When almost all was out, God made a stay, Perceiving that alone, of all his treasure, Rest in the bottom lay. For if I should...
Page 24 - Is lightened : — that serene and blessed mood, In which the affections gently lead us on, — • Until, the breath of this corporeal frame And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul : While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.
Page 275 - Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied — We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died. For when the morn came dim and sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed — she had Another morn than ours.
Page 243 - There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
Page 262 - Night! when our first parent knew Thee from report divine and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus with the host of heaven came ; And lo ! Creation widened in man's view.
Page 22 - IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration...
Page 234 - Linked arm in arm, how pleasant here to pace ! Or, o'er the stern reclining, watch below The foaming wake far widening as we go. On stormy nights when wild north-westers rave, How proud a thing to fight with wind and wave ! The dripping sailor on the reeling mast Exults to bear, and scorns to wish it past.