 | Theodore Parker - 1907
...common day. — I, long before the blissful hour arrives, Would chant, in lonely peace, the spousal verse Of this great consummation; and by words Which...and win the vacant and the vain To noble raptures." - - " May your life Express the image of a better time, More wise desires and simpler manners; nurse... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1907 - Страниц: 580
...common day. 55 — I, long before the blissful hour arrives, Would chant, in lonely peace, the spousal verse Of this great consummation: — and, by words...we are, Would I arouse the sensual from their sleep 60 Of death, and win the vacant and the vain To noble raptures; while my voice proclaims How exquisitely... | |
 | Sister Mary Pius Neenan - 1916 - Страниц: 85
..."dedicated spirit." 119 "I, long before the blissful hour arrives, Would chant, in lonely peace, the spousal verse Of this great consummation; and, by words Which...and win the vacant and the vain To noble raptures;" 120 Natural beauty has had a marked influence on nearly all true mystics. St. Bernard, masterful and... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1916 - Страниц: 792
...common day. 55 — I, long before the blissful hour arrives, Would chant, in lonely peace, the spousal , Apollyon's bosom-friend, Sailed past, nor beat his wide wing dragonpenned 60 Of death, and win the vacant and the vain To noble raptures; while my voice proclaims How exquisitely... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1916 - Страниц: 792
...common day. 55 — I, long before the blissful hour arrives, Would chant, in lonely peace, the spousal te in former years Against the robbers ; and he saw...its first grey hairs : hope fill'd his soul ; And 60 Of death, and win the vacant and the vain To noble raptures ; while my voice proclaims How exquisitely... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1917
...common day. — I, long before the blissful hour arrives, Would chant, in lonely peace, the spousal verse Of this great consummation : — and, by words...the progressive powers perhaps no less Of the whole spc,cies) to the external world Is fitted : — and how exquisitely, too — Theme this but little... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1920 - Страниц: 331
...the common day. I, long before the blissful hour arrives, 1 Would chant, in lonely peace, the spousal verse Of this great consummation : — and, by words...their sleep Of Death, and win the vacant and the vain K To noble raptures ; while my voice proclaims I How exquisitely the individual Mind \ (And the progressive... | |
 | Oliver Elton - 1920
...heroic strain in honour of Liberty. But not for this will he be a tame singer. On the contrary, he will arouse the sensual from their sleep Of Death, and win the vacant and the vain To noble raptures ; and he will do this in words which refuse falsely to idealise the scenes of common life, and ' which... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke - 1922 - Страниц: 391
...happiness, or not at all! " To this quest of joy, to this proclamation of joy, he dedicates his life. " By words Which speak of nothing more than what we...and win the vacant and the vain To noble raptures." And herein he becomes a prophet to his age, — a prophet of the secret of joy, simple, universal,... | |
 | George Roy Elliott, Norman Foerster - 1923 - Страниц: 825
...day. I, long before the blissful hour arrives. Would chant, in lonely peace, the spousal verse 810 Of this great consummation : and, by words Which speak...the vain To noble raptures; while my voice proclaims 815 How exquisitely the individual mind (And the progressive powers perhaps no less Of the whole species)... | |
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I, long before the blissful hour arrives, Would chant, in lonely peace, the spousal verse Of this great consummation : — and, by words Which speak of nothing more than what we are, Would I arouse the sensual from their sleep Of Death, and win the vacant... 
