Modern Poets and Christian Teaching: Richard Watson Gilder, Edwin Markham, Edward Rowland SillEaton & Mains, 1906 - 183 pages |
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... Hold firm thy will for strife , Lest a quick blow break it ! Even now from far on viewless wing Hither speeds the nameless thing Shall put thy spirit to the test . Haply , or e'er yon sinking sun Shall drop behind the purple West All ...
... Hold firm thy will for strife , Lest a quick blow break it ! Even now from far on viewless wing Hither speeds the nameless thing Shall put thy spirit to the test . Haply , or e'er yon sinking sun Shall drop behind the purple West All ...
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... holds that the individual is not to depress and dishearten others with his tale of woe . He is to ' consume his own smoke , and by the right understanding of all life's hap- penings he is to be the inbringer of light , and com- fort ...
... holds that the individual is not to depress and dishearten others with his tale of woe . He is to ' consume his own smoke , and by the right understanding of all life's hap- penings he is to be the inbringer of light , and com- fort ...
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... hold thee ! How many Christians there are who seem to put the best things of their faith into the far future ; who are ever hoping , and praying , and waiting for a better day , forgetful of the great truth that GOD IN THE World 55.
... hold thee ! How many Christians there are who seem to put the best things of their faith into the far future ; who are ever hoping , and praying , and waiting for a better day , forgetful of the great truth that GOD IN THE World 55.
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... holds To duty unrewarded and unshared ; It loves where all is loveless ; it endures In the long passion of the soul for God . Lest anyone should think this man a careless and flippant iconoclast , casting aside things old and reverend ...
... holds To duty unrewarded and unshared ; It loves where all is loveless ; it endures In the long passion of the soul for God . Lest anyone should think this man a careless and flippant iconoclast , casting aside things old and reverend ...
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... hold his thought and compel embodiment in enduring verse . The atoning power of sacrifice and death is suggested in the lines previously quoted , " Life Is the Cost , " while in a little verse entitled " Cost " the power and influence ...
... hold his thought and compel embodiment in enduring verse . The atoning power of sacrifice and death is suggested in the lines previously quoted , " Life Is the Cost , " while in a little verse entitled " Cost " the power and influence ...
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Page 102 - TEACH me, my God and King, In all things Thee to see, And what I do in anything, To do it as for Thee. All may of Thee partake : Nothing can be so mean Which with this tincture, for Thy sake, Will not grow bright and clean. A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine ; Who sweeps a room as for Thy laws, Makes that and the action fine.
Page 122 - WHEN the Norn Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She left the Heaven of Heroes and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need. She took the tried clay of the common road — Clay warm yet with the genial heat of Earth, Dashed through it all a strain of prophecy; Tempered the heap with thrill of human tears; Then mixed a laughter with the serious stuff.
Page 92 - Guid faith he mauna fa' that ! For a' that, and a' that, Their dignities, and a' that, The pith o' sense, and pride o' worth, Are higher rank than a' that. Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will for a' that ; That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree, and a' that. For a
Page 110 - How will you ever straighten up this shape; Touch it again with immortality; Give back the upward looking and the light; Rebuild in it the music and the dream; Make right the immemorial infamies, Perfidious wrongs, immedicable woes?
Page 91 - The crest and crowning of all good, Life's final star, is Brotherhood; For it will bring again to Earth Her long-lost Poesy and Mirth; Will send new light on every face, A kingly power upon the race. And till it come, we men are slaves, And travel downward to the dust of graves.
Page 70 - IF Jesus Christ is a man, — And only a man, — I say That of all mankind I cleave to him, And to him will I cleave alway. If Jesus Christ is a God, — And the only God, — I swear I will follow Him through heaven and hell, The earth, the sea, and the air...
Page 87 - And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do them not.
Page 149 - Had I a sword of keener steel — That blue blade that the king's son bears, — but this Blunt thing!" he snapt and flung it from his hand, And lowering crept away and left the field. Then came the king's son, wounded, sore bestead, And weaponless, and saw the broken sword, Hilt-buried in the dry and trodden sand, And ran and snatched it, and with battle-shout Lifted afresh he hewed his enemy down, And saved a great cause that heroic day.
Page 118 - If, drunk with sight of power, we loose Wild tongues that have not Thee in awe — Such boasting as the Gentiles use Or lesser breeds without the Law — Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget — lest we forget! For heathen heart that puts her trust In reeking tube and iron shard — All valiant dust that builds on dust, And guarding calls not Thee to guard — For frantic boast and foolish word, Thy Mercy on Thy People, Lord!
Page 2 - From all that's fair, from all that's foul, Peals out a cheerful song. It is not only in the rose, It is not only in the bird, Not only where the rainbow glows, Nor in the song of woman heard, But in the darkest, meanest things There alway, alway something sings.