You promise heavens free from strife, Pure truth, and perfect change of will; But sweet, sweet is this human life, So sweet, I fain would breathe it still : Your chilly stars I can forego, This warm kind world is all I know. You say there is no substance... Catholic progress - Side 358af Young men's Catholic assocFuld visning - Om denne bog
| William Johnson Cory - 1858 - 128 sider
...was due ; And I, dear passionate Teucer, dare Go through the homeless world with you. in d£totttft. You promise heavens free from strife, Pure truth,...I can forego, This warm kind world is all I know. You say there is no substance here, One great reality above : Back from that void I shrink in fear,... | |
| William Hamilton Codrington NATION, W. H. C. N. - 1862 - 122 sider
.... . . .92 In Memoriam ...... 94 A Child's Question. . . . . .97 The Lesson of Nature .... 100 &» " You promise heavens free from strife, Pure truth and...human life, So sweet I fain would breathe it still." You sneer at heavens free from strife-, Pure truth, and perfect change of will, And term that human... | |
| English poets - 1883 - 364 sider
...small and sweet, Sweet to myself that am so sweet to you!" WILLIAM CORY MIMNERMUS IN CHURCH Born 1823 You promise heavens free from strife, Pure truth,...I can forego, This warm kind world is all I know. You say there is no substance here, One great reality above : Back from that void I shrink in fear,... | |
| William James Linton, Richard Henry Stoddard - 1883 - 394 sider
...the hollow ghost, Which blamed the living man. WILLIAM (JOHNSON) CORY. 1823 — MIMNERMUS IN CHURCH. You promise heavens free from strife, Pure truth,...I can forego ; This warm kind world is all I know. You say there is no substance here, One great reality above : Back from that void I shrink in fear,... | |
| 1883 - 378 sider
...so small and sweet Sweet to myself that am so sweet to you ! " WILLTAM CORY Barn MIMNERMUS IN CHURCH You promise heavens free from strife, Pure truth,...I can forego, This warm kind world is all I know. You say there is no substance here, One great reality above : Back from that void I shrink in fear,... | |
| 1888 - 742 sider
...pleads in unmistakable undertones for a warmer, lower humanity" (\VH Pater: Studies of the Renaissance). You promise heavens free from strife. Pure truth and...fain would breathe it still : Your chilly stars I can forgo : This warm, kind world is all I know. ROOM II THE SIENESE SCHOOL " SINCE we are teachers to... | |
| Edmund Gosse - 1891 - 388 sider
...trees Shall keep me, though the veins be cold, ds young as Sophocles. and again, in poignant notes : You promise heavens free from strife, "Pure truth,...I can forego, This warm, kind world is all I know. This last quotation is from the poem called Mimnermus in Church. In this odd title he seems to refer... | |
| Edmund Gosse - 1891 - 360 sider
...trees Shall keep me, though the veins be coldt ds young as Sophocles. "And again, in poignant notes : You promise heavens free from strife, "Pure truth,...I can forego, This warm, kind world is all I know. This last quotation is from the poem called Mimnetmus in Church. In this odd title he seems to refer... | |
| Philip Bourke Marston - 1891 - 172 sider
...kind; all deal with that almost pagan sense of the earth, as instinct with a divine power and life. ' Your chilly stars I can forego, This warm kind world is all I know,' sings the author of ' lonica ' ; and it is in the familiar attractions of life, in the thought of domesticity,... | |
| Charles Hall Strong - 1892 - 136 sider
...anticipate such a prospect with acquiescence. Many would be tempted to join the agnostic refusal : " You promise heavens free from strife, Pure truth and...can forego, This warm, kind world is all I know." But our Lord's words contain no such barren prospect. We must remember the Idnd of marriage, and therefore... | |
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