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" The hand that rounded Peter's dome And groined the aisles of Christian Rome Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; He buildcd better than he knew; — The conscious stone to beauty grew. "
The Real and Ideal in Literature - Page 154
by Frank Preston Stearns - 1892 - 223 pages
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The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song

Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...the volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below, — The canticles of love and woe ; The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, v IVrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; tie builded better than he knew;...
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The New Monthly Belle Assemblée, Volumes 70-71

740 pages
...an eqnal date With Andes and with Ararat, The hand that ronnded Peter's dome, And groined the isles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity ; Himself from God he conld not free ; He bnilded better than he knew, The conscious stone to beauty grew." When we speak,...
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The New Englander, Volume 23

1864 - 752 pages
...the volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below, — The canticles of love and woe ; The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in sad sincerity; Himself from God ha could not free ; He buildi'd better than he knew ; — The conscious...
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The Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany, Volume 38

1845 - 458 pages
...best, perhaps, that might be found ; but they are the only ones we have at hand. The first is from " The Problem." " The hand that rounded Peter's dome,...sincerity. Himself from God he could not free ; He buildcd better than he knew, The conscious stone to beauty grew. Know'st thou what wove yon woodbird's...
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Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 244 pages
...Like the volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below, The canticles of love and woe. The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Borne, Wrought in a sad sincerity, Himself from God he could not free ; He builded better than he knew,...
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The Homilist; or, The pulpit for the people, conducted by D ..., Volume 5

David Thomas - 448 pages
...came Like the volcano's tongue of flame Up from the burning core below, The canticles of love and woe. The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the...sad sincerity, Himself from God he could not free." (4.) Forms of society, embodying the grand principles of godliness, and of its cognate humanity. Secondly...
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A Discourse Occasioned by the Death of Daniel Webster: Preached at the ...

Theodore Parker - 1853 - 116 pages
...Socrates, there has seldom been a head so massive huge, save the stormy features of Michael Angelo,— "The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome ; " he who sculptured Day and Night into such beautiful forms, — looked them in his face before he...
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Flight of Years: A Discourse in the First Independent Church, Baltimore, on ...

George Washington Burnap - 1853 - 424 pages
...Socrates, there has seldom been a head so massive huge, save the stormy features of Michael Angelo, — " The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome ; " he who sculptured Day and Night into such beautiful forms, — looked them in his face before he...
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A Discourse Occasioned by the Death of Daniel Webster: Preached at the ...

Theodore Parker - 1853 - 128 pages
...Socrates, there has seldom been a head so massive huge, save the stormy features of Michael Angelo, — " The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Borne ; " he who sculptured Day and Night into such beautiful forms, — looked them in his face before...
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A Discourse Occasioned by the Death of Daniel Webster: Preached at the ...

Theodore Parker - 1853 - 124 pages
...Socrates, there has seldom been a head so massive huge, save the stormy features of Michael Angelo, — '"The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Home ; " he who sculptured Day and Night into such beautiful forms, — looked them in his face before...
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