The marriage ring, a repr. from the 4th ed. of Eniautos publ. in 1673, ed. with notes by F.B.M. Coutts |
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Anthologia Palatina Anthologia Palatina 1872 beauty Behold beloved Bishop Taylor blessed bosom bride bridegroom charity chast Christ Christian Church Clemens Alexandrinus commanded Conjugalia Praecepta Coventry Patmore daughters of Jerusalem divine duty Ellice Hopkins Eniautos eternal Euripides evil fair faith father flesh garden gladness happiness harem hath heart heaven holy honour Hugh Macmillan human Husband ideas Jeremy Taylor Jerusalem Jesus Julius Pollux Juvenal king ladies love and marriage lover Margin Marriage Ring married Moralia mother myrrh mystery nature Nonius Marcellus numbers Paradise passage passion Plutarch poem pure purity Quoted by Clemens Religion sacred saith the Lord says shepherd-lover sing society Solomon Song Song of Songs sorrow spikenard spirit Stobaeus SULAMMITE sweet teaching thee thine things true union unto Vertue vineyard virgin Vulgate wise woman women words ye daughters ἀλλ δὲ εἶναι εἰς καὶ μὲν τὰ τὴν τῶν
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Page 87 - My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone ; The flowers appear on the earth ; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land ; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Page 44 - SING, O barren, thou that didst not bear; Break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child : For more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the Lord.
Page 45 - The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.
Page 46 - Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love ; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness ; yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord God, and thou becamest mine.
Page 45 - For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.
Page 47 - Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him.
Page 46 - for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
Page 62 - Hail wedded love! mysterious law, true source Of human offspring, sole propriety In Paradise of all things common else. By thee adulterous lust was driv'n from men Among the bestial herds to range; by thee Founded in reason, loyal, just, and pure, Relations dear, and all the charities Of father, son, and brother, first were known.
Page 46 - Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her. And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope...
Page 45 - Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the Lord: I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.