Sorrow is hard to bear, and doubt is slow to clear, Each sufferer says his say, his scheme of the weal and woe: But God has a few of us whom he whispers in the ear; The rest may reason and welcome: 'tis we musicians know. The Yale Literary Magazine - Page 931895Full view - About this book
| 1895 - 700 pages
...to bear and doubt is slow to clear, Each sufferer has his say, his scheme of the weal and woe: But God has a few of us whom he whispers in the ear: The...rest may reason and welcome: 'tis we musicians know. Well, it is earth with me: silence resumes her reig'ti: I will be patient and proud, and soberly acquiesce.... | |
| Mrs. Minnie E. Kenney Paull - 1895 - 224 pages
...hard to bear, and doubt is slow to clear; Each sufferer says his say, his scheme of weal and woe; But God has a few of us whom He whispers in the ear; The...rest may reason, and welcome; 'tis we musicians know. — ROBERT BROWNING. ©cto&et 23. issue, — to draw us more closely, yet more reverently, to Him in... | |
| Paul Carus - 1895 - 730 pages
...flash of the will that can ; Existent behind all laws that made them, and lo, they are. . . . God hath a few of us whom He whispers in the ear, The rest may reason and welcome, 'tis we musicians know." Although this great musician believed music to be a language, it was a language that could be understood... | |
| Edward Berdoe - 1895 - 356 pages
...bear, and doubt is slow to clear, Each sufferer says his say, his scheme of weal and woe ; But God haa a few of us whom He whispers in the ear ; The rest...may reason and welcome ; 'tis we musicians- know." The calm born of contemplating nature is very great ; and yet remorse in the heart would be sufficient... | |
| Robert Browning - 1895 - 1070 pages
...bear, and doubt is slow to clear, Each sufferer says his say, his scheme of the weal and woe : But God has a few of us whom he whispers in the ear ; The rest may reason and welcome : 't is we tungi^li^Tm know. Well, it is earth with me ; silence resumes her reign: I will be patient... | |
| Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1895 - 802 pages
...bear, and doubt is slow to clear, Each sufferer says his say, his scheme of the weal and woe : But God has a few of us whom he whispers in the ear ; The rest may reason and welcome ; 't is we musicians know. Well, it is earth with me ; silence resumes her reign : I will be patient... | |
| William Chatterton Coupland - 1895 - 746 pages
...to bear, and doubt is slow to clear, Each sufferer says his say, his scheme of the weal and woe: But God has a few of us whom he whispers in the ear; LIII. POTTER AND CLAY. Not on the vulgar mass Called "work," must sentence pass, Things done, that... | |
| Edward Berdoe - 1896 - 292 pages
...possession of and power of expressing so much truth, the musician is still closer to the Divine — " God has a few of us whom He whispers in the ear ;...may reason and welcome ; 'tis we musicians know." 1 The soul has moods and motives which are too poetical for poetry, and music alone has the power to... | |
| 1896 - 678 pages
...bear, and doubt is slow to clear, Each sufferer says his say, his scheme of the weal and woe : But God has a few of us whom he whispers in the ear; The...rest may reason and welcome : 'tis we musicians know. So, friends, let us never doubt that our faithfulness in the little things, the finest things we can... | |
| Daniel Webster - 1896 - 72 pages
...bear, and doubt is slow to clear ; Each sufferer says his say, his scheme of the weal and the woe; But God has a few of us whom he whispers in the ear; The...may reason, and welcome : 'tis we musicians know." When life and art become " sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought " ; when the vigor and spontaneity... | |
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