The CathedralFields, Osgood, & Company, 1870 - 46 strani |
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Stran 34 - ... No man can think nor in himself perceive, Sometimes at waking, in the street sometimes, Or on the hillside, always unforewarned, A grace of being, finer than himself, That beckons and is gone,— a larger life Upon his own impinging, with swift glimpse Of spacious circles luminous with mind, To which the ethereal substance of his own Seems but gross cloud to make that visible, Touched to a sudden glory round the edge.
Stran 30 - Something of all it might be, or of none: Yet for a moment I was snatched away And had the evidence of things not seen; For one rapt moment; then it all came back, This age that blots out life with question-marks, This nineteenth century with its knife and glass That make thought physical, and thrust far off The Heaven, so neighborly with man of old, To voids sparse-sown with alienated stars.
Stran 25 - I gazed abashed, Child of an age that lectures, not creates, Plastering our swallow-nests on the awful Past, And twittering round the work of larger men, As we had builded what we but deface.
Stran 4 - Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, by FIELDS, OSGOOD, & CO., in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. UNIVERSITY PRESS : WELCH, BIGELOW, & Co., .
Stran 7 - Cloudless of care, down-shod to every sense, And simply perfect from its own resource,. As to a bee the new campanula's Illuminate seclusion swung in air. Such days are not the prey of setting suns, Nor ever blurred with mist of afterthought...
Stran 30 - T is irrecoverable, that ancient faith, Homely and wholesome, suited to the time, With rod or candy for child-minded men : No theologic tube, with lens on lens Of syllogism transparent, brings it near, — At best resolving some new nebula, Or blurring some fixed-star of hope to mist. Science was Faith once ; Faith were Science now, Would she but lay her bow and arrows by And arm her with the weapons of the time.
Stran 28 - I turned and saw a beldame on her knees ; With eyes astray, she told mechanic beads Before some shrine of saintly womanhood, Bribed intercessor with the far-off Judge : Such my first thought, by kindlier soon rebuked, Pleading for whatsoever touches life With upward impulse : be He nowhere else, God is in all that liberates and lifts, In all that humbles, sweetens, and consoles...
Stran 34 - I, that still pray at morning and at eve, Loving those roots that feed us from the past, And prizing more than Plato things I learned At that best academe, a mother's knee, Thrice in my life perhaps have truly prayed, Thrice, stirred below my conscious self, have felt That perfect disenthralment which is God...
Stran 42 - In this brown-fisted rough, this shirt-sleeved Cid, This backwoods Charlemagne of empires new, Whose blundering heel instinctively finds out The goutier foot of speechless dignities, Who, meeting Caesar's self, would slap his back, Call him