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... prayer for all women . This seems to me a tenderness grand as exquisite . The outburst of the chorus of the Faithful in the last stanza but one , — When he rose , then fell her sorrow , is as fine as anything I know in the region of the ...
... prayer for all women . This seems to me a tenderness grand as exquisite . The outburst of the chorus of the Faithful in the last stanza but one , — When he rose , then fell her sorrow , is as fine as anything I know in the region of the ...
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... prayers were in an unknown tongue , the sermons were very few , and printing was uninvented . The plays themselves , in- troduced into the country by the Normans , were , in the foolish endeavour to make Normans of Anglo- Saxons ...
... prayers were in an unknown tongue , the sermons were very few , and printing was uninvented . The plays themselves , in- troduced into the country by the Normans , were , in the foolish endeavour to make Normans of Anglo- Saxons ...
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... throat to her husband , praying him to strangle her : Now stumble we on stalk and stone ; My wit away from me is gone ; Writhe on to my neck - bone With hardness of thine hand . Adam replies - not over politely— Wife , thy wit.
... throat to her husband , praying him to strangle her : Now stumble we on stalk and stone ; My wit away from me is gone ; Writhe on to my neck - bone With hardness of thine hand . Adam replies - not over politely— Wife , thy wit.
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... prayer for hope : we hear , and lo ! it is the cry and the prayer of a man like ourselves . From the words of the greatest man of his age , let me now gather two rich blossoms of utterance , presenting an embodiment of religious duty ...
... prayer for hope : we hear , and lo ! it is the cry and the prayer of a man like ourselves . From the words of the greatest man of his age , let me now gather two rich blossoms of utterance , presenting an embodiment of religious duty ...
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... Prayer to Jesus , I choose five from the latter half , where the prayer passes from his own spiritual neces- sities , very tenderly embodied , to those of others . It does our hearts good to see the clouded sun of prayer for oneself ...
... Prayer to Jesus , I choose five from the latter half , where the prayer passes from his own spiritual neces- sities , very tenderly embodied , to those of others . It does our hearts good to see the clouded sun of prayer for oneself ...
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allegory angels Ben Jonson blessed blest bliss born breast called Canonical Hours Christ comfort crown dark dear death divine Donne dost doth doubt dwell earth EDMUND WALLER eternal eyes faith fancy Father fear feeling flowers George Herbert GEORGE SANDYS Giles Fletcher give glorious glory God's grace hand hath hear heart heaven heavenly hell Henry Vaughan heroic couplet holy hymn JEREMY TAYLOR Jesus JOHN BYROM king light live look Lord lyric mercy Milton mind Miracle Plays mystical nature never night nought peace poem poet poetic poetry praise prayer PSALM reader religious rhyme rise Robert Herrick shepherds shine sing sleep song sorrow soul sound spirit stanza star symbol thee thine things THOMAS PARNELL thou art thou hast thought thyself true truth unto utterance verse voice words worship write
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Page 207 - The Oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
Page 72 - Give me my scallop-shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon, My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My bottle of salvation, My gown of glory, hope's true gage ; And thus I'll take my pilgrimage.
Page 122 - Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so; For those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow, Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me. From rest and sleep, which but thy...
Page 310 - Ye pine-groves, with your soft and soul-like sounds! And they too have a voice, yon piles of snow, And in their perilous fall shall thunder, GOD!
Page 139 - Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
Page 248 - See, how the orient dew, Shed from the bosom of the morn, Into the blowing roses, (Yet careless of its mansion new, For the clear region where 'twas born,) Round in itself incloses And, in its little globe's extent, Frames, as it can, its native element. How it the purple flower does slight, Scarce touching where it lies ; But gazing back upon the skies, Shines with a mournful light, Like its own tear, Because so long divided from the sphere.
Page 310 - Thou too, hoar Mount! with thy sky-pointing peaks, Oft from whose feet the avalanche, unheard, Shoots downward, glittering through the pure serene Into the depth of clouds, that veil thy breast — Thou too again, stupendous Mountain!
Page 205 - For if such holy song Enwrap our fancy long, Time will run back, and fetch the age of gold; And speckled vanity Will sicken soon and die, And leprous sin will melt from earthly mould; And Hell itself will pass away, And leave her dolorous mansions to the peering day.
Page 287 - Through this day's life or death. This day, be bread and peace my lot: All else beneath the sun, Thou know'st if best bestowed or not; And let Thy will be done.
Page 267 - He that is down needs fear no fall, He that is low, no pride; He that is humble, ever shall Have God to be his guide.