 The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment, Before the Present poor and bare Can make its sneering comment. Still, through our paltry stir and strife, Glows down the wished Ideal, And longing moulds in clay what Life Carves in the...  Language Lessons: Part one-[two] - Page 112by Robert Comfort Metcalf, Orville T. Bright - 1896Full view - About this book
 | James Russell Lowell - 1853 - 284 pages
...strife, Glows down the wished Ideal, And Longing moulds in clay what Life Carves in the marble Real ; To let the new life in, we know, Desire must ope the...poor earthward striving ; We quench it that we may he still Content with merely living ; But, would we learn that heart's full scope Which we are hourly... | |
 | 1899 - 430 pages
...strife, Glows down the wished Ideal, And Longing moulds in clay what Life Carves in the marble Real; To let the new life in, we know, Desire must ope the...immortal. , Longing is God's fresh heavenward will 41 With our poor earthward striving; ^ We quench it that we may be still *" Content with merely living;... | |
 | 1859 - 802 pages
...for the fame of a great artist, I think of two lines in a little song I have heard you sing,— -" ' To let the new life in, we know Desire must ope the portal.' And, surely, her earnest spirit was beating with feverish haste on that portal of her future for her... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1858 - 642 pages
...strife, Glows down the wished Ideal, And Longing moulds in clay what Life Carves in the marble Real ; To let the new life in, we know, Desire must ope the...it that we may be still Content with merely living ; 588 . J. RUSSELL LOWELL. we learn that heart's full scope 3 are hourly wronging, lust climb from... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1858 - 342 pages
...Longing moulds in clay what Life Still, through our paltry stir and strife, Carves in the marble Real; To let the new life in, we know, Desire must ope the...the longing to be so Helps make the soul immortal. With. our poor earthward striving; We quench it that we may be still Longing is God's fresh heavenward... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1863 - 338 pages
...Longing moulds in clay what Life Still, through our paltry stir and strife, Carves in the marble Real ; To let the new life in, we know, Desire must ope the...the longing to be so Helps make the soul immortal. With our poor earthward striving ; We quench it that we may be still Longing is God's fresh heavenward... | |
 | Life-lights - 1864 - 336 pages
...strife, Glows down the wish'd Ideal, And Longing moulds in clay what Life Carves in the marble Real ; To let the new life in, we know, Desire must ope the...wronging, Our lives must climb from hope to hope, And realise our Longing. Ah ! let us hope that to our praise Good God not only reckons The moments when... | |
 | 1864 - 334 pages
...strife, Glows down the wish'd Ideal, And Longing moulds in clay what Life Carves in the marble Real ; To let the new life in, we know, Desire must ope the...wronging, Our lives must climb from hope to hope, Ah ! let us hope that to our praise Good God not only reckons The moments when we tread His ways, But... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1866 - 342 pages
...strife, Glows down the wished Ideal, And Longing moulds in clay what Life Carves in the marble Real ; To let the new life in, we know, Desire must ope the...with merely living; But, would we learn that heart's foil scope Which we are hourly wronging, Our lives must climb from hope to hope And realize our longing.... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1866 - 340 pages
...strife, Glows down the wished Ideal, And Longing moulds in clay what Life Carves in the marble Real ; To let the new life in, we know, Desire must ope the...Content with merely living ; But, would we learn that hearfs full scope Which we are hourly wronging, Our lives must climb from hope to hope And realize... | |
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