 Being a daughter borne to God, Mother of Christ from stall to rood, And wife unto the Holy Ghost : — Oh when our need is uttermost, Think that to such as death may strike Thou once wert sister sisterlike ! Thou headstone of humanity, Groundstone of...  The Thousand Faces of the Virgin Maryby George Henry Tavard - 1996 - 275 pagesNo preview available - About this book
 | Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1871 - 314 pages
...thy brother, And thy tongue shall lap the blood of the other.' (And O the bower and the hour ! ) AVE. MOTHER of the Fair Delight, Thou handmaid perfect...Christ from stall to rood, And wife unto the Holy Ghost : — Oh when our need is uttermost, Think that to such as death may strike Thou once wert sister sisterlike... | |
 | Robert Williams Buchanan - 1872 - 116 pages
..." Mother of the Fair Delight ! " he exclaims ; and then proceeds with the following jargon : — " Handmaid perfect in God's sight, Now sitting fourth...Three, Thyself a woman-Trinity, — Being a daughter born to God, Mother of Christ from stall to rood, And Wife unto the Holy Ghost ! !" The poem improves... | |
 | Robert Williams Buchanan - 1872 - 128 pages
...God's sight, Now sitting fourth beside the Three, Thyself a woman-Trinity, — Being a daughter born to God, Mother of Christ from stall to rood, And Wife unto the Holy Ghost ! !" The poem improves as it proceeds, but it is fleshly to the last fibre, — quite, in fact, in... | |
 | 1874 - 900 pages
...in God's sight, Now Bitting fourth beside the Three, Thyself a woman Trinity, Being a daughter born to God, Mother of Christ from stall to Rood, And wife unto the Holy Ghost : — Oh 1 when our need is uttermost. Think that to such as death may strike Thou wert a sister, sisterlike... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1883 - 734 pages
...this wind-warm space, And in regenerate rapture turns my face Upon the devious coverts of dismay? AVE. Mother of the Fair Delight, Thou handmaid perfect...sight, Now sitting fourth beside the Three, Thyself a woman -Trinity, — Being a daughter borne to God, Mother of Christ from stall to rood, And wife unto... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1883 - 686 pages
...this wind-warm space, And in regenerate rapture turns my face Upon the devious coverts of dismay? AVE. Mother of the Fair Delight, Thou handmaid perfect...sight, Now sitting fourth beside the Three, Thyself a woman -Trinity, — Being a daughter borne to God, Mother of Christ from stall to rood, And wife unto... | |
 | Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1886 - 588 pages
...round her image side by side, Like tombs of pilgrims that have died About the Holy Sepulchre. AVE. MOTHER of the Fair Delight, Thou handmaid perfect...Three, Thyself a woman-Trinity, — Being a daughter born to God, Mother of Christ from stall to rood, And wife unto the Holy Ghost : — Oh when our need... | |
 | Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1886 - 626 pages
...round her image side by side, Like tombs of pilgrims that have died About the Holy Sepulchre. AVE. MOTHER of the Fair Delight, Thou handmaid perfect...Three, Thyself a woman-Trinity, — Being a daughter born to God, Mother of Christ from stall to rood, And wife unto the Holy Ghost : — Oh when our need... | |
 | Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1887 - 338 pages
...thy brother, And thy tongue shall lap the blood of the other.' (And O the bower and the hourf) AVE. MOTHER of the Fair Delight^ Thou handmaid perfect...from stall to rood, And wife unto the Holy Ghost: — Oh when our need is uttermost, Think that to such as death may strike Thou once wert sister sisterlike... | |
 | 1889 - 466 pages
...name. He answered me, as he had answered Caesar: "I am a Christian! " LESSON LXI. AVE. LACOBDAIRE. MOTHER of the Fair Delight, Thou handmaid perfect...Three, Thyself a woman-Trinity— Being a daughter born to God, Mother of Christ from stall to rood, And spouse unto the Holy Ghost— Oh, when our need... | |
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