 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...by their presence; live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, In scorn Of miserable aims that end with self, In thoughts sublime...night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge men's minds To vaster issues. So to live is heaven : To make undying music in the world, Breathing... | |
 | 1882 - 966 pages
...In this volume the religious aspirations of the new faith were thus given poetical expression : " O may I join the choir invisible, Of those immortal...like stars, And, with their mild persistence, urge men's search To vaster issues. So to live u Aeoten." In this year, too, at Belfast, Professor Tyndall... | |
 | George Eliot - 1874 - 268 pages
...Longum illud tempm, quum non era, magis me movel, quam hoc ezu/uum. — CICERO, ad Alt., xii. 18. O MAY I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead...And with their mild persistence urge man's search So to live is heaven : To make undying music in the world, Breathing as beauteous order that controls... | |
 | George Eliot - 1874 - 274 pages
...INVISIBLE." illud tempui, t/v.um rum era, magii me movel, I/HUM hoc eziguum. — CICERO, ad Att., xii. 18. 0 MAY I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead...And with their mild persistence urge man's search So to live ia heaven : To make undying music in the world, Breathing as beauteous order that controls... | |
 | 1910 - 806 pages
...pulses stirred to generosity; In deeds of daring rectitude; in scorn For miserable aims that end in self; In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge men's search To higher, vaster issues. May I reach That purest heaven— be to other souls The cup... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1876 - 562 pages
...by their presence ; live In pulses stirred to generosity. In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn Of miserable aims that end with self, In thoughts sublime...night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge men's minds j To vaster issues. So to live is heaven : ! To make undying music in the world, Breathing... | |
 | james nisbet - 1877 - 824 pages
...George Eliot puts the same thought in the final poem of her '' Jubal and other Poems" :— " 0 may 1 join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who...man's search To vaster issues. So to live is heaven." " And all our better, rarer, truer self, That sobbed religiously in yearning song, That watched to... | |
 | Robert Flint - 1877 - 466 pages
...contemporary novelists and among the greatest of contemporary poets has expressed in triewords : — " O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead...mild persistence urge man's search To vaster issues. . . . This is life to come, Which martyred men have made more glorious For us who strive to follow."... | |
| |
MAY I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence; live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self, In thoughts sublime that pierce... 
