 | 1875 - 402 pages
...Like the volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below, The canticles of love and woe ; The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the...sad sincerity ; Himself from God he could not free ; He builded better than he knew ; The conscious stone to beauty grew. . . . The passive Master lent... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 pages
...Phidias brought. The Problem. Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old. Jbid. The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the...sad sincerity ; Himself from God he could not free ; He builded better than he knew ; — The conscious stone to beauty grew. fb:d. Earth proudly wears... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1875 - 240 pages
...the volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below, — The canticles of love and woe ; The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the...sad sincerity ; Himself from God he could not free ; He builded better than he knew, — The conscious stone to beauty grew. Know'st thou what wove yon... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - 1875 - 538 pages
...flame, Up from the burning: cone below, Thu canticles of love and woe. The band that rounded I'etcr's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome* Wrought...sad sincerity. Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew ; The conscious stone to beauty grew." There is a truth in this —... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1875 - 242 pages
...the volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below, — The canticles of love and woe ; The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, VOL. XIV. 6 Wrought in a sad sincerity ; Himself from God he could not free ; He builded better than... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 234 pages
...Like the volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below, — The canticles of love and woe; The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the...sad sincerity ; Himself from God he could not free ; He builded better than he knew ; — The conscious stone to beauty grew. Know'st tliou what wove... | |
 | Elliott W. Preston - 1876 - 206 pages
...Converse with the Eternal ! Let us pause, St. Peter's ! at thy plinth, before the mystic Cause, (') " The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the...sad sincerity ; Himself from God he could not free ; He builded better than he knew ; — The conscious stone to beauty grew." [Emer son's " Problem."... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 576 pages
...Like the volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below, — The canticles of love and woe. The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the...sad sincerity ; Himself from God he could not free ; He builded better than he knew ; — The conscious stone to beauty grew. Know'st thou what wove yon... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - 1876 - 528 pages
...Like the volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning cone below, The canticles of love and woe. The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the...sad sincerity. Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew ; The conscious stone to beauty grew." There is a truth in this —... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1876 - 562 pages
...Like the voleano's tongue of flame, Up from the bnrning com below, — The canticles of love and woe. The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the...sad sincerity. Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew; The conscious stone to beauty grew. Know'st thou what wove yon woodbird's... | |
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The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity: Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew : The conscious stone to beauty grew. 
