In Love with Love: Four Life-studiesJ. H. West, 1894 - 109 pages |
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50 cents aspiration bearing beauty better bevelled blessed blessedness bodily transfiguration charlatan Cloth comes daily divine dream earnest earth Emerson endeavor Epic poem eternal evermore evil Evolution faith fathers feel forever Four Life-Studies Frederick fret Gautama glory Goethe grow growth Hans Christian Andersen heaven heights Holy human soul ical Infinite JAMES H Jesus life's light lives look love with love man's mankind Matthew Arnold Method in Social mighty Milton mind moral Moreover Nature ness never night noble nobler numbered ourselves overcome passion peace persistence poem progress real Tennyson red edges religion religious Russia Samuel Longfellow seek selfishness serenity Social Reform soul's spirit star strength strive struggle thee things thou thought to-day true truth universe UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Uplifts of Heart verse vision weakness wise woman women word world-saviours worth young youth-time
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Page 99 - Purse, That holds the treasures of the universe! All possibilities are in its hands, No danger daunts it, and no foe withstands; In its sublime audacity of faith, "Be thou removed!
Page 51 - And thou, too, whosoe'er thou art, That readest this brief psalm, As one by one thy hopes depart, Be resolute and calm. O fear not in a world like this, And thou shalt know ere long, Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong.
Page 22 - And what is so rare as a day in June ? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays : Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten ; Every clod feels a stir of might. An instinct within it that reaches and towers, And, groping blindly above it for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers...
Page 98 - mid work of his own hand he lies Fretted by sallies of his mother's kisses, With light upon him from his father's eyes ! See, at his feet, some little plan or chart...
Page 45 - O, when I am safe in my sylvan home, I tread on the pride of Greece and Rome; And when I am stretched beneath the pines, Where the evening star so holy shines, I laugh at the lore and the pride of man, At the sophist schools, and the learned clan; For what are they all, in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?
Page 26 - I am owner of the sphere, Of the seven stars and the solar year, Of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain, Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakespeare's strain.
Page 72 - Rustle for a moment only, Like the withered leaves in lonely Churchyards at some passing tread.
Page 51 - The shield of that red star. 0 star of strength! I see thee stand And smile upon my pain; Thou beckonest with thy mailed hand, And I am strong again.
Page 81 - I have said that the soul is not more than the body, And I have said that the body is not more than the soul, And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's self is, And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud...
Page 76 - This is self-reliance, to repose calmly on the thought which is deepest in our bosoms, and be unmoved if the world will not accept it yet. To live on your own convictions against the world, is to overcome the world — to believe that what is truest in you is true for all: to abide by that, and not...