 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.  Dramatis Personœ - Page 97by Robert Browning - 1864 - 262 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Marshall Mather - 1892 - 190 pages
...God. But although unseen and unknown, it is swelling the man's account. For example, such things as ' Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies...language and escaped ; All I could never be, All men ignore in me, This, I was worth to God, Whose wheel the pitcher shaped.' The world measures a man by... | |
 | 1892 - 806 pages
...verse. Elsewhere the poet sings: " Not on the vulgar mass Called ' work' must sentence pass ; " and " All I could never be, All men ignored in me. This I was worth to God, whose wheel ihe pitcher shaped." Hut of Sordello's unfruitful existence says : " A sorry farce Such is life after... | |
 | Robert Browning, Mrs. Charlotte M. Tytus - 1892 - 192 pages
...me : we all surmise, They, this thing, and I, that: whom shall my soul believe? August Fourteenth. All I could never be, All, men ignored in me ; This I was worth to God. August Fifteenth. So, take and use Thy work, Amend what flaws may lurk, What strain o' the stuff, what... | |
 | 1892 - 980 pages
...little of that aspiration which is the measure of being : " All I could never be, All men ignored irr me ; This I was worth to God Whose wheel the pitcher shaped." They need a prophet like Moses to tell them of a promised land within their reach. All men, we are... | |
 | Henry Austin Adams - 1893 - 210 pages
...instincts immature, All purposes unsure, That weighed not as his work, but swelled the man's account. Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act ; Fancies...All men ignored in me — This I was worth to God." Let us be very sure, as S. Paul was, that in the sight of God we are just what we are. In the clearness... | |
 | Evelyn M. Noble - 1893 - 120 pages
...instincts immature, All purposes unsure, That weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's account. Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies...be, All men ignored in me, This, I was worth to God. . . All that is, at all, Lasts ever, past recall ; Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure :... | |
 | 1894 - 136 pages
...instincts immature, All purposes unsure, That weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount : Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies...was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. 99 Ay, note that Potter's wheel, That metaphor ! and feel Why time spins fast, why passive lies our... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1894 - 178 pages
...instincts immature All purposes unsure, That weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount : xxV. Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies...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... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1894 - 862 pages
...instincts immature All purposes unsure, That weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amonnt : XXV. Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies...was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. XXVL Ay, note that Potter's wheel, That metaphor ! and feel Why time spins fast, why passive lies our... | |
 | Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen - 1894 - 240 pages
...instincts immature, All purposes unsure, That weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount ; " Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act; Fancies...was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped." It may be a somewhat ethereal compensation which the poet here hints at, but on that account none the... | |
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