And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love; is And these black bodies and this sunburnt face Is but a cloud, and like a shady grove. Scribners Monthly - Page 2171880Full view - About this book
| Monthly literary register - 1839 - 744 pages
...away ; And flowers, and trees, and beasts, and men receive Comfort in morning, joy in the noon day. And we are put on earth a little space, That we may...to bear the beams of love ; And these black bodies alid this sun-burnt face, Are but a cloud, and like a shady grove. For when our souls have learn'd... | |
| Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1868 - 354 pages
...baptized with pure water and taught to speak as from faultless lips of children, to such effect as this. " And we are put on earth a little space That we may learn to bear the beams of love ; And these hlack bodies and this sunburnt face Are like a cloud and like a shady grove." Other poems of a very... | |
| 1868 - 904 pages
...away ; And flowers and trees, and beasts and men receive Comfort in morning, joy in the noon-day. " ' And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of lore ; And these black bodies, and this sunburnt face, Are but a cloud, and like a shady grove. " '... | |
| 1870 - 588 pages
...heat away, And flowers and trees and beasts and men receive Comfort in morning, joy in the noonday. ' And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love; 1870.] [May, And these black bodies and this sunburnt face Are but a cloud, and like a shady grove.... | |
| 1881 - 790 pages
...that hell was One damned high eternal noon. Blake thus, in the ' Songs of Innocence,' has accepted the sweetness with touches of a darker side. The tears...expressed : — ' And we are put on earth a little Bpace, That we may learn to bear the beams of love; Ard theae blank bodies and this sun-burnt face... | |
| Charles Anderson Dana - 1882 - 906 pages
...away; And flowers, and trees, and beasts, and men receive Comfort in morning, joy in the noonday. " And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love, And these black lx>dies and this sunburnt face Arc but a cloud, and like a shady grove. " For when our souls have learned... | |
| William Blake - 1885 - 330 pages
...heat away, And flowers and trees and beasts and men receive Comfort in morning, joy in the noonday. " And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the J>eams-ef-h5ve j_ And these black bodies and this sunimwit face Are but a cloud, and like a shady grove.... | |
| William Blake, Richard Herne Shepherd - 1887 - 224 pages
...away ; And flowers, and trees, and beast, and men receive Comfort in morning, joy in the noon-day. " And we are put on earth a little space, That we may leam to bear the beams of love ; And these black bodies and this sun-burnt face Are but a cloud, and... | |
| Henry Troth Coates - 1901 - 1080 pages
...bleezing wi' a flare. Sec how he loups! as they glimmer '.\ the Comfort in morning, joy in the noonday. 0P 2 ; For a'sae sage he looks, what can t.> .auuie And thwu blaek b()dics aud this sunburnt ken? face He's... | |
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