A Listener in Babel: Being a Series of Imaginary Conversations Held at the Close of the Last Century and Reported by Vida D. Scudder |
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Page 223 - She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love : A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye! Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky.
Page 270 - BRIGHT STAR ! would I were steadfast as thou art :— Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores...
Page 83 - I will not cease from mental fight, Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand, Till we have built Jerusalem In England's green and pleasant land.
Page 83 - To suffer woes which hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy power which seems omnipotent; To love and bear; to hope till hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates...
Page 24 - Thou art a holy poem, sweet Umbrian plain, Forever chanted to the angels' ear: Thy tender vines beneath the hills austere, Thy shining poppies and thy springing grain, All murmur softly one melodious strain, While Brother Wind breathes low that he may hear, And floating o'er thy far horizons clear, Our Sister Clouds hearken the glad refrain. A poem of love remembered: day by day, Here, with some chosen brother of his band, God's Little Poor One wandered, lorn and gay, Weeping, yet singing on his...
Page 244 - ... the hearts of all may be set with one accord to discover the way of salvation, through thy mercy, who for our sakes didst become poor that we through thy poverty might become rich. Amen.
Page 74 - Boston at the turn of the century as a "cleavage of classes, cleavage of races, cleavage of faiths! an inextricable confusion. And the voice of democracy, crying aloud in our streets : 'Out of all this achieve brotherhood! achieve the race to be.
Page 109 - ... from each according to his capacity, to each according to his needs'.
Page 184 - The good want power, but to weep barren tears. The powerful goodness want : worse need for them. The wise want love ; and those who love want wisdom ; And all best things are thus confused to ill.
Page 156 - Blessed is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help : and whose hope is in. the Lord his God ; 5 Who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that therein is : who keepeth his promise for ever; 6 Who helpeth them to right that suffer wrong : who feedeth the hungry.