Sordello, Strafford, Christmas-eve and Easter-dayTicknor and Fields, 1864 - 412 páginas |
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Página 59 - Accomplished ! Listen, Mantuans ! " Fond essay ! Piece after piece that armour broke away, Because perceptions whole, like that he sought To clothe, reject so pure a work of thought / As language : thought may take perception's place But hardly co-exist in any case, . Being its mere presentment — of the whole By parts, the simultaneous and the sole By the successive and the many.
Página 338 - No : love which, on earth, amid all the shows of it, Has ever been seen the sole good of life in it, The love, ever growing there, spite of the strife in it, Shall arise, made perfect, from death's repose of it.
Página 362 - What is the point where himself lays stress ? Does the precept run " Believe in good, In justice, truth, now understood For the first time " ? — or, " Believe in me, Who lived and died, yet essentially Am Lord of Life " ? Whoever can take The same to his heart and for mere love's sake Conceive of the love, — that man obtains A new truth ; no conviction gains Of an old one only, made intense By a fresh appeal to his faded sense.
Página 346 - Earth breaks up, time drops away, In flows heaven, with its new day Of endless life, when He who trod, Very Man and very God, This earth in weakness, shame and pain, Dying the death whose signs remain Up yonder on the accursed tree, — Shall come again, no more to be Of captivity the thrall, But the one God, all in all, King of kings, and Lord of lords, As His servant John received the words, " I died, and live for evermore !
Página 335 - From the heart beneath, as if, God speeding me, I entered His church-door, Nature leading me) — In youth I looked to these very skies, And probing their immensities, I found God there, His visible power ; Yet felt in my heart, amid all its sense Of that power, an equal evidence That His love, there too, was the nobler dower. For the loving worm within its clod, Were diviner than a loveless god Amid his worlds, I will dare to say.
Página 339 - And supreme the spectral creature lorded In a triumph of whitest white, — Above which intervened the night. But above night too, like only the next, The second of a wondrous sequence, Reaching in rare and rarer frequence, Till the heaven of heavens were circumflexed, Another rainbow rose, a mightier, Fainter, flushier and flightier, — Rapture dying along its verge.
Página 362 - Whom do you count the worst man upon earth ? Be sure, he knows, in his conscience, more Of what right is, than arrives at birth In the best man's acts that we bow before : This last knows better - true, but my fact is, 'Tis one thing to know, and another to practise.
Página 367 - Needs must there be one way, our chief Best way of worship : let me strive To find it, and when found, contrive My fellows also take their share ! This constitutes my earthly care : God's is above it and distinct.
Página 2 - The historical decoration was purposely of no more importance than a background requires ; and my stress lay on the incidents in the development of a soul : little else is worth study.
Página 372 - For the preacher's merit or demerit, It were to be wished the flaws were fewer In the earthen vessel, holding treasure Which lies as safe in a golden ewer ; But the main thing is, does it hold good measure ? Heaven soon sets right all other matters...