Biblical IdylsRichard Green Moulton Macmillan, 1896 - 149 pages |
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Page xi
... fair Shulam- mite woman , Solomon in the end giving way , and the heroine and her humble wooer becoming united . To me this result seems to be wrung out of the words of the poem with a good deal of straining . On the other hand , if we ...
... fair Shulam- mite woman , Solomon in the end giving way , and the heroine and her humble wooer becoming united . To me this result seems to be wrung out of the words of the poem with a good deal of straining . On the other hand , if we ...
Page xii
... fair spring time , and how in the midst of his sweet words the harsh voices of her brothers broke in upon them , with the cry that the foxes were in the vineyard . Again , after the in- tervention of a refrain , the bride tells a simple ...
... fair spring time , and how in the midst of his sweet words the harsh voices of her brothers broke in upon them , with the cry that the foxes were in the vineyard . Again , after the in- tervention of a refrain , the bride tells a simple ...
Page xiv
... fair Shulammite . The two concluding idyls might be called , in modern phrase , the close of the honeymoon . The first of them is spoken by the bride to her husband . Amid all the splendour of the royal palace she finds herself longing ...
... fair Shulammite . The two concluding idyls might be called , in modern phrase , the close of the honeymoon . The first of them is spoken by the bride to her husband . Amid all the splendour of the royal palace she finds herself longing ...
Page xvi
... Fair as the moon , pure as the sun , Terrible as an army with banners ? The six lines that succeed express the feelings - the un- spoken feelings- of the Shulammite as the gaze of the royal party is fastened upon her : I went down into ...
... Fair as the moon , pure as the sun , Terrible as an army with banners ? The six lines that succeed express the feelings - the un- spoken feelings- of the Shulammite as the gaze of the royal party is fastened upon her : I went down into ...
Page 10
... fair , my love ; behold , thou art fair ; Thine eyes are as doves . THE BRIDE Behold thou art fair , my beloved , yea , pleasant : Also our couch is green . The beams of our house are cedars , And our rafters are firs . I am a rose of ...
... fair , my love ; behold , thou art fair ; Thine eyes are as doves . THE BRIDE Behold thou art fair , my beloved , yea , pleasant : Also our couch is green . The beams of our house are cedars , And our rafters are firs . I am a rose of ...
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alms angel Antique Metre antistrophe art thou Azarias banquet Bath-rabbim beauty begat Behold beloved blessed Boaz Book Book of Esther brethren bride BRIDEGROOM brother Brother Azarias buried captive child daughter in law daughters of Jerusalem dialogue dramatic dream Ecbatana epic Esther the queen flock Gabael gave give gladness glean go with thee Haman Hammedatha hath heart Hebrew honour husband Israel Jerusalem Jews king Ahasuerus KING SOLOMON king's gate kinsman Lebanon Lord lyric idyl maiden mercy Moab month Adar mother in law myrrh Naomi Nineveh passage poem poetry princes Purim Raguel Raphael rejoice righteous royal Ruth Sarah shew Shulammite Shushan the palace smell Solomon's Song sons soul loveth spake story Strophes Strophes of three symbolism thereof Thine eyes things thou art fair thou hast thou shalt three strains Tobias Tobit tribe tribe of Naphtali unto Esther unto the king Vashti vineyard wedding feast wine women words young Zeresh
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Page 15 - My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; The fig-tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Page 17 - I will rise now, and go about the city In the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth : I sought him, but I found him not.
Page 15 - The voice of my beloved ! behold he cometh Leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills. My beloved is like a roe or a young hart : Behold, he standeth behind our wall, He looketh forth at the windows, Shewing himself through the lattice.
Page 41 - Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field ; Let us lodge in the villages. Let us get up early to the vineyards; Let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, And the pomegranates bud forth: There will I give thee my loves.
Page 45 - Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm : for love is strong as death ; jealousy is cruel as the grave : the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame...
Page xvii - Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions ? 8 If thou know not, O thou fairest among women, go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock, and feed thy kids beside the shepherds
Page 11 - As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, So is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, And his fruit was sweet to my taste.
Page 126 - BECAUSE of the savour of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee.
Page 8 - I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon. Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.
Page 46 - We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts : What shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for? If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: And if she be a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar.