 WE cannot kindle when we will The fire which in the heart resides; The spirit bloweth and is still, In mystery our soul abides. But tasks in hours of insight willed Can be through hours of gloom fulfilled.  Character-building: Sermons and Poems - Page 132by Theodore Chickering Williams - 1893 - 303 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Andrus Alcott - Conduct of life - 1847 - 510 pages
...be driven to construct a programme out of my own bitter and ridiculous experiences. THE CURE " But tasks in hours of insight willed Can be through hours of gloom fulfilled." The above lines from Matthew Arnold are quoted by one of my very numerous correspondents to support a certain... | |
 | 1894 - 284 pages
...a distinguishing characteristic. Arnold is himself the embodiment of his own beautiful thought that "Tasks in hours of insight willed Can be through hours of gloom fulfilled." Examples of this dignity of intellect and seriousness of emotion are everywhere prevalent throughout... | |
 | Arthur Hugh Clough - 1869 - 442 pages
...fire that in the heart resides, The spirit bloweth and is still, In mystery our soul abides ; — But tasks, in hours of insight willed, Can be through hours of gloom fulfilled. With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone ; We bear the burden and the... | |
 | Arthur Hugh Clough - Prose poems, English - 1869 - 448 pages
...fire that in the heart resides, The spirit bloweth and is still, In mystery our soul abides ; — But tasks, in hours of insight willed, Can be through hours of gloom fulfilled. With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone ; We bear the burden and the... | |
 | Poems - 1872 - 362 pages
...The fire which in the heart resides, The spirit bloweth and is still, In mystery our soul abides, But tasks in hours of insight willed Can be through hours of gloom fulfilled. With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone ; We bear the burden and the... | |
 | Elizabeth Sophia Watson - Class meeting, Methodist - 1873 - 252 pages
...fire that in the heart resides. The spirit bloweth, and is still, lu mystery our soul abides ; But tasks in hours of insight willed Can be through hours of gloom fulfilled." Now, in a large number of cases, religious meetings, in great measure, supply the " hours of insight... | |
 | Voices - Christian poetry, English - 1874 - 256 pages
...fire which in the heart resides ; The spirit bloweth and is still ; In mystery our soul abides ; But tasks in hours of insight willed Can be through hours of gloom fulfilled. With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone ; We bear the burden and the... | |
 | Sermons, American - 1890 - 668 pages
...the most important lesson of all, — the truth so well expressed in Matthew Arnold's couplet, — " Tasks in hours of insight willed Can be through hours of gloom fulfilled." More potent to inspire holy living than any system of religious doctrine, the life of Christ shows... | |
 | Education - 1883 - 270 pages
...Here ! " PRANK H. GASSAWAY. We cannot kindle when we will, The fire that in the heart resides ; But tasks in hours of insight willed, Can be through hours of gloom fulfilled. M. ARNOLD. THE HIDE OF COLLINS GRAVES. — (Extracts.) AN INCIDENT OF THE FLOOD IN MASSACHUSETTS, MAT... | |
 | Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones - 1883 - 424 pages
...fire which in the heart resides ; The spirit bloweth and is still, In mystery our soul abides ; But tasks in hours of insight willed Can be through hours of gloom fulfilled." (2.) Disappointment at the journey s end. Picture view of Jerusalem as travellers neared it. Eager... | |
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