 Gives hope and fervor, nearer draws his theme, First guessed by faint auroral flushes sent Along the wavering vista of his dream. Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie ; Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb...  The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell - Page 106by James Russell Lowell, Horace Elisha Scudder - 1924 - 492 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Myron Cooley - 1894 - 180 pages
...o'clock dinner, we started for our trout stream. What a time we had. We were boys again. "Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie;...We Sinais climb and know it not. Over our manhood bends the skies; Against our fallen and traitor lives The great winds utter prophecies." The third... | |
 | 1894 - 632 pages
...of men who go through the world, and recognize no divinity, although it is there. Lowell says, — " Daily with souls that cringe and plot We Sinais climb, and know it not." Lowell saw poems where we see only stone walls and trees and a brook running through a meadow. The... | |
 | Mildred Cabell Watkins - 1894 - 234 pages
...God made her so, And deeds of week-day holiness Fall from her noiseless as the snow. NOT AS OTHERS. Daily with souls that cringe and plot We Sinais climb, and know it not. Earth gets its price for what earth gives us : At the devil's booth are all things sold : Each ounce... | |
 | Minot Judson Savage - 1894 - 628 pages
...of men who go through the world, and recognize no divinity, although it is there. Lowell says, — " Daily with souls that cringe and plot We Sinais climb, and know it not." Lowell saw poems where we see only stone walls and trees and a brook running through a meadow. The... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1895 - 574 pages
...First guessed by faint auroral flushes sent Along the wavering vista of his dream. Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie...prophecies ; With our faint hearts the mountain strives ; It-ч arms outstretched, the druid wood Waits with its bénédicité ; And' to our age's drowsy blood... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1895 - 386 pages
...shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? — I. JOHN iii. 17. " Daily with souls that cringe and plot We Sinais climb...prophecies ; With our faint hearts the mountain strives." AND when this has indeed been brought home to us, when the law, which is the will of God, has also... | |
 | Arnold Tompkins - 1895 - 264 pages
...individual out of the Egyptian bondage of his lower nature into the realm of spiritual life and freedom. " Over our manhood bend the skies ; Against our fallen...The great winds utter prophecies ; With our faint heart the mountain strives; Its arms outstretched, the druid wood Waits with its henedicite ; And to... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1895 - 604 pages
...two steps for one gained. Mr. Lowell, in his prelude to "The Vision of Sir Launfal," answers us that "Daily with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb, and know it not." It is well, I think, for us all to have a lofty ideal, to set our standard high; for, with the best... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 460 pages
...First guessed by faint auroral flushes sent Along the wavering vista of his dream. Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie;...with its Benedicite; And to our age's drowsy blood Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us: The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in, The priest... | |
 | Charles Macauley Stuart - 1896 - 328 pages
...Doth heaven with all its splendors lie ;l Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb2 and know it not. Over our manhood bend the skies ;...Its arms outstretched, the druid wood Waits with its benedicite;3 And to our age's drowsy blood Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us ; The beggar... | |
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