The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tables yet unbroken; The word by seers or sibyls told, In groves of oak, or fanes of gold, Still floats upon the morning wind, Still whispers to the willing mind. One accent of the Holy Ghost The heedless world... Poems - Page 10by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 199 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1874 - 544 pages
...Like the volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below, The canticles of love and woe. The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tables yet unbroken ; Still floats upon the morning wind, Still whispers to the willing mind ; One accent of the Holy Ghost... | |
| Theodore Parker - 1875 - 336 pages
...was the pulpit would send its mother into bondage for ever ! But what then ? Truth has not perished ! "The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tables...mind. One accent of the Holy Ghost The heedless world has never lost." No doubt these are times of great danger, and those who have always leaned on the... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 560 pages
...countless host, Trances the heart through chanting choirs, And through the priest the mind inspires. The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tables...told, In groves of oak or fanes of gold, Still floats UJKHI the morning wind. Still whispers to the willing mind. One accent of the Holy Ghost The heedless... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 392 pages
...heart through chanting And through the priest the mind inspires. The word unto the prophet spoken AVas writ on tables yet unbroken ; The word by seers or...of gold, Still floats upon the morning wind, Still whis|>ers to the willing mind. One accent of the Holy Ghost The lieedless world linth never lost. 1... | |
| Charles Beard - 1876 - 436 pages
...them a wondrous and abiding power to illumine and bless the souls of men. As Emerson so truly sings : The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tables...the Holy Ghost The heedless world hath never lost. But these prophetic announcements, though due to the immediate inspiration of the Eternal, naturally... | |
| Charles De Berard Mills - 1876 - 212 pages
...vestige of their place or memory. Yet their work abides, the legacy goes on never to be consumed. " One accent of the Holy Ghost, The heedless world hath never lost." Buddha may be, perhaps is already that, a myth, his history a tale of the imagination, but the career... | |
| William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - 1878 - 508 pages
...countless host, Trances the heart through chanting choirs, And through the priest the mind inspires. The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tables...the Holy Ghost The heedless world hath never lost. 8. I know what say the fathers wise — The book itself before me lies — Old Chrysostom, best Augustine,... | |
| Jabez Thomas Sunderland - 1878 - 204 pages
...turn, growing fuller and richer by time." DR. TEMPLE, BISHOP OF EXETER. " The word unto the prophets spoken Was writ on tables yet unbroken ; The word...the Holy Ghost The heedless world hath never lost." EMERSON. The two indispensable conditions of a nobler and truer theology for the time to come, are,... | |
| Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 pages
...host, Trances the heart through chanting choirs And through the priest the mind inspires. The word nnto the prophet spoken Was writ on tables yet unbroken;...whispers to the willing mind. One accent of the Holy Ghoet The heedless world hath never lost. I know what say the fathers wise — The book itself before... | |
| 1878 - 298 pages
...greater and stronger by the help of each one of them. — Theodore Parker; American. -. igth cent. Ac THE word unto the Prophet spoken Was writ on tables...morning wind, » Still whispers to the willing mind. The heedless world hath never lost One accent of the Holy Ghost. RW Emerson ; American, igth cent.... | |
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