 Slowly the Bible of the race is writ, And not on paper leaves nor leaves of stone ; Each age, each kindred, adds a verse to it, Texts of despair or hope, of joy or moan. While swings the sea, while mists the mountains shroud, While thunder's surges burst...  Religious Thought in the Greater American Poets - Page 172by Elmer James Bailey - 1922 - 258 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Russell Lowell - 1849 - 276 pages
...he who bends, Intent on manna still and mortal ends, Sees it not, neither hears its thundered lore. Slowly the Bible of the race is writ, And not on paper...thunder's surges burst on cliffs of cloud, Still at the prophets' feet the nations sit BEAVER BROOK. HUSHED with broad sunlight lies the hill, And, minuting... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1857 - 334 pages
...he who bends, Intent on manna still and mortal ends, Sees it not, neither hears its thundered lore. Slowly the Bible of the race is writ, And not on paper...thunder's surges burst on cliffs of cloud, Still at the prophets' feet the nations sit. BEAVER BROOK. HUSHED with broad sunlight lies the hill, And, minuting... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1858 - 342 pages
...race is writ, Each age, each kindred adds a verse to it, And not on paper leaves nor leaves of stone; Texts of despair or hope, of joy or moan. While swings...thunder's surges burst on cliffs of cloud, Still at the prophets' feet the nations sit. BEAVER BROOK. HUSHED with broad sunlight lies the hill, And, minuting... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1863 - 338 pages
...race is writ, Texts of despair or hope, of joy or moan. Each age, each kindred adds a verse to it, While swings the sea, while mists the mountains shroud,...thunder's surges burst on cliffs of cloud, Still at the prophets' feet the nations sit. BE AYER BROOK. HUSHED with broad sunlight lies the hill, And, minuting... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1866 - 340 pages
...he who bends, Intent on manna still and mortal ends, Sees it not, neither hears its thundered lore. Slowly the Bible of the race is writ, And not on paper...joy or moan. While swings the sea, while mists the mountaino shroud, While thunder's surges burst on cliffs of cloud, Still at the prophets' feet the... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1866 - 342 pages
...verse to it, Texts of despair or hope, of joy or moan. While swings the sea, while mists the mountaing shroud, While thunder's surges burst on cliffs of cloud, Still at the prophets feet the nations sit. BEAVER BROOK. HUSHED with broad sunlight lies the hill^ And, minuting... | |
 | Giles Badger Stebbins - 1872 - 408 pages
... CHAPTERS FROM THE BIBLE OF THE AGES " Slowly the Bible of the race is writ ; Each age, each kindred adds a verse to it, Texts of...thunder's surges burst on cliffs of cloud, Still at the prophets1 feet the nations sit." — JR LOWELL. 11 We have but part of our Holy Bible. The time will... | |
 | Giles Badger Stebbins - 1872 - 416 pages
...Aug. 26, 1891 of Society, 1854-1886 FROM THE BIBLE OF THE AGES "Slowly the Bible of the race is writ; Each age, each kindred adds a verse to it, Texts of...while mists the mountains shroud, While thunder's surge? burst on cliffs of cloud, Still at the prophets1 feet the nations sit." — JR LOWKI.L. *«•... | |
 | American poems, William Michael Rossetti - 1873 - 556 pages
...he who bends, Intent on manna still and mortal ends, Sees it not, neither hears its thundered lore. Slowly the Bible of the race is writ, And not on paper...thunder's surges burst on cliffs of cloud, Still at the prophets' feet the nations sit. TO ACL THROUGH suffering and sorrow thou hast passed ' To show us what... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1873 - 484 pages
...he who bends, Intent on manna still and mortal ends, Sees it not, neither hears its thundered lore. Slowly the Bible of the race is writ, And not on paper...nor leaves of stone : Each age, each kindred, adds a verso to it, Texts of despair or hope, of joy o» moan. While swings the sea, while mists the mountains... | |
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