 | 1853 - 566 pages
...his rehabilitated Hindoo-Greek theosophy — MORALITY. We cannot kindle when we will The fire that in the heart resides, The spirit bloweth and is still,...our soul abides ; — But tasks, in hours of insight willed, Can he through hours of gloom fulfilled. With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap,... | |
 | lady Emily Charlotte M. Ponsonby - 1854 - 334 pages
...to Middlethorpe. So ended Edward's plot. CHAPTER III. " We cannot kindle when we will, The fire that in the heart resides: The spirit bloweth and is still;...will'd, Can be through hours of gloom fulfill'd." AEWOLD. A YEAR passed at Middlethorpe happily and quietly away. Clare's nature was active and vigorous.... | |
 | Margaret Agnes Paull - 1857 - 324 pages
...absence of more definite authority. Be ft rcay. CHAPTER XIV. We cannot kindle when we will The fire that in the heart resides; The spirit bloweth , and is...hours of insight will'd Can be through hours of gloom fulfill'.l. With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden... | |
 | Arthur Hugh Clough - 1869 - 448 pages
...his rehabilitated Hindoo-Greek theosophy: — MORALITY. We cannot kindle when we will The fire that in the heart resides, The spirit bloweth and is still,...our soul abides ; — But tasks, in hours of insight willed, Can be through hours of gloom fulfilled. With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap,... | |
 | Poems - 1872 - 362 pages
...thyself ! and know, that he Who finds himself, loses his misery ! ' MATTHEW ARNOLD. MORALITY. "\ ~\ 7"E cannot kindle when we will The fire which in the...mystery our soul abides, But tasks in hours of insight willed Can be through hours of gloom fulfilled. With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap,... | |
 | Henry Timrod - 1873 - 206 pages
...' Not used to make <*A present joy the matter of his song ; ' ' We eannot kindle when we will That fire which in the heart resides ; The spirit bloweth,...mystery our soul abides : But tasks in hours of insight willed, May ~be through hours of gloom fulfilled.' "Is it not also a significant fact that the best... | |
 | Voices - 1874 - 256 pages
...man from sin First out; this beam Will guide him in. Henry Vaughan. NATURE TEACHES DESPAIR TO HOPE. E cannot kindle when we will The fire which in the heart...mystery our soul abides ; But tasks in hours of insight willed Can be through hours of gloom fulfilled. With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap,... | |
 | 1890 - 668 pages
...and put ourselves in the way of seeing the heavenly vision. Only half true is the statement that " We cannot kindle when we will The fire which in the heart resides." The enkindling does not depend altogether on ourselves ; but we have our part to do, and it is an essential... | |
 | William Mackintire Salter - 1879 - 64 pages
...is not subject to our control; we may not compel its presence by word of command or act of will. " The Spirit bloweth and is still, In mystery our soul abides." But so far as we can detect the law of its action, does it not seem to come in response to our humbler,... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1882 - 364 pages
...®naken))forte, cf. Matt. vii. 14 30-40. Cf., for the thought, Matthew Arnold's verses (as in Text) — " We cannot kindle when we will The fire which in the heart...insight will'd Can be through hours of gloom fulfill'd." (Lyric Poems, ' Morality.') 31. iiimmelSenge, " heavenly nook. " 33. Segen would seem to be used here... | |
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WE cannot kindle when we will The fire which in the heart resides ; The spirit bloweth and is still, In mystery our soul abides. But tasks in hours of insight willed Can be through hours of gloom fulfilled. 
