Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped; All I could never be, All, men ignored in me, This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. Browning, Poet and Man: A Surveyby Elisabeth Luther Cary - 1902 - 282 pagesSnippet view - About this book
| 1881 - 1046 pages
...' Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped ; All I could never be, All, men ignored in me, This, I was worth to God, Whose wheel the pitoher shaped.' Again, the sense of unrealized desire is an index of character which we may regard... | |
| 1882 - 844 pages
...to restore them one day perfected and completed; a God who looks not to results, but to effort : — All I could never be All men ignored in me, This,...was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. (" Rabbi ben Ezra.") This intense faith would in itself afford ample consolation under the sting of... | |
| Robert Browning - 1864 - 268 pages
...25. Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped; All I could never be, All, men ignored in me, This,...was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. 26. Ay, note that Potter's wheel, That metaphor! and feel Why time spins feat, why passive lies our... | |
| Robert Browning - 1864 - 298 pages
...25. Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped; All I could never be, All, men ignored in me, This,...was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. 26. Ay, note that Potter's wheel, That metaphor ! and feel Why time spins fast, why passive lies our... | |
| Robert Browning - 1864 - 276 pages
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| Robert Browning - 1864 - 266 pages
...25. Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped; All I could never be, All, men ignored in me, This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher 26. Ay, note that Potter's wheel, That metaphor ! and feel Why time spins fast, why passive lies our... | |
| Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1866 - 504 pages
..." Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped ; All I could never be, All men ignored in me, This...was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped." JAMBS SAVAGE. Captain 2d Mass. Vols. (Infantry), May 24, 1861 ; Major, June 23, 1862; Lieutenant-Colonel,... | |
| Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1866 - 518 pages
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| Robert Browning - 1874 - 372 pages
...Thoughts hardly to be packed ' Into a narrow act, • i Fancies that broke through language and escaped : All I could never be, All, men ignored in me, This,...was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. XXVI. Ay, note that Potter's wheel, That metaphor ! and feel Why time spins fast, why passive lies... | |
| Songs - 1874 - 252 pages
...: Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped ; All I could never be, All men ignored in me, This,...was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. Ay, note that Potter's wheel, That metaphor ! and feel Why time spins fast, why passive lies our clay,... | |
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