Biblical IdylsRichard Green Moulton Macmillan, 1896 - 149 pages |
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... heard : these are a signal for one more embrace , and the poem ends . Besides this general clue as to the mode in which the different parts of the story are brought before us it is well that , before commencing the text , the reader ...
... heard : these are a signal for one more embrace , and the poem ends . Besides this general clue as to the mode in which the different parts of the story are brought before us it is well that , before commencing the text , the reader ...
Page xxiv
... heard by other ears without offence . On one other point a word may be said . In this presen- tation of idyllic love , some readers may ask , what has be- come of the spiritual interpretation ? To dwell upon the religious meaning of the ...
... heard by other ears without offence . On one other point a word may be said . In this presen- tation of idyllic love , some readers may ask , what has be- come of the spiritual interpretation ? To dwell upon the religious meaning of the ...
Page xxxi
... heard before the glory of the great God . " The wonder - working Providence is to inter- pose in the troubles of these widely separated kindred families ; and the angel Raphael is to be the providential instrument which is to draw the ...
... heard before the glory of the great God . " The wonder - working Providence is to inter- pose in the troubles of these widely separated kindred families ; and the angel Raphael is to be the providential instrument which is to draw the ...
Page 15
... heard in our land ; The fig tree ripeneth her green figs , And the vines are in blossom , They give forth their fragrance . Arise , my love , my fair one , And come away . O my dove , that art in the clefts of 15 The Interrupted Visit ...
... heard in our land ; The fig tree ripeneth her green figs , And the vines are in blossom , They give forth their fragrance . Arise , my love , my fair one , And come away . O my dove , that art in the clefts of 15 The Interrupted Visit ...
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... ( heard interrupting ) " Take us the foxes , " The little foxes that spoil the vineyards ; " For our vineyards are in blossom . " My beloved is mine , and I am his : He feedeth his flock among the lilies . Until the day break , and the ...
... ( heard interrupting ) " Take us the foxes , " The little foxes that spoil the vineyards ; " For our vineyards are in blossom . " My beloved is mine , and I am his : He feedeth his flock among the lilies . Until the day break , and the ...
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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.