 | Maryland State Bar Association - 1920 - 284 pages
...circumstances, and it recalls to my mind the lines of Emerson : "The hand that rounded Peter's tomb, And groined aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity ; Himself from God he could not free ; The conscious stone to beauty grew — He builded better than he knew." ( Applause.}When we determine... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 2007 - 403 pages
...something higher than human Will. For man cannot free himself from God. The spell of divinity is on him. "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 grow!"23 * * * [193] Profoundly significant,... | |
 | David Boucher - 1997 - 364 pages
...at present is that modern Democracy seems to have partly escaped 10 Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), 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 Problem', Poems in Complete... | |
 | Mark Richardson - 1997 - 296 pages
...Text We Read?" 6. Frost echoes the following passage of Emerson's poem, which concerns Michelangelo: 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. (Oxford Authors edition 496)... | |
 | Lee Oser - 1998 - 204 pages
...writing a masterpiece. This is precisely "The Problem," as Emerson presents it in his poem of that name: The hand that rounded Peter's dome And groined the...sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; . . . (Works, 9:7) 20. Kenneth Burke observed of Whitman, "In his 'oceanic' accumulation of details,... | |
 | Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell - 1994 - 580 pages
...Christian churches recall the great seventeenth-century masters Emerson admired: Milton, Jonson, Marvell. 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 penultimate poem in the 1 846... | |
 | 1905 - 986 pages
...years. All of which is respectfully submitted, (Mrs. Charles H. Terry) FRANCES AM TERRY, Secretary. The hand that rounded Peter's dome And groined the...sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; He btiilded better than he knew; — WORK OF THE CHAPTERS Oakland Chapter (Oakland, California) held... | |
 | Robert Faggen - 2001 - 308 pages
...Problem," which concerns Michelangelo, and which marks a variation on the theme introduced in "Memory": 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. Frost's references to this poem... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 2002 - 280 pages
...never sere" (l. 2). 130.24-27 / "Wrought . . . grew.": Thoreau adapts the second stanza of Emerson's "The Problem": The hand that rounded Peter's dome,...sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew — The conscious stone to beauty grew. 136.27-28 / pearls before swine:... | |
 | Linda Jones, Sophie Stanes - 2003 - 240 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... | |
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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. 
