But he who gives but a slender mite, And gives to that which is out of sight, That thread of the all-sustaining Beauty Which runs through all and doth all unite, — The hand cannot clasp the whole of his alms, The heart outstretches its eager palms,... The Vision of Sir Launfal, and Other Poems - Seite 8von James Russell Lowell - 1905 - 113 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| James Russell Lowell - 1849 - 276 Seiten
...Beauty Which runs through all and doth all unite, — The hand cannot clasp the whole of his alms, The heart outstretches its eager palms, For a god...To the soul that was starving in darkness before." THE VISION SIR LAUNFAL PART SECOND. PRELUDE. DOWN swept the chill wind from the mountain peak, From... | |
| Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1849 - 566 Seiten
...Beauty Which runs through all and doth all unite, — The hand cannot clasp the whole of his alms, The heart outstretches its eager palms, For a god...To the soul that was starving in darkness before.' " — pp. 12, 13. This giving of alms from a sense of duty will not do. The vision continues. " ' For... | |
| David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1850 - 292 Seiten
...'NEATH; th flat. S PAHS; sound rz. CHAMBERS; vr» as in hert, not 62. ARABESQUES ; besgue*, like beskt. DOWN swept the chill wind from the mountain peak, From the snow five thousand summers old : On open wold and hill-top bleak, It had gathered all the cold, And whirled it like sleet on the wanderer's... | |
| Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1852 - 356 Seiten
...wretched evermore, With as wide a welcome swings As a king's ! Winter fm James Russell Lowell. T\OWN swept the chill wind from the mountain peak, From the snow five thousand Summers old ; On open wold and hill-top bleak It had gathered all the cold. And whirled it like sleet on the wanderer's... | |
| William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1855 - 780 Seiten
...that it must be familiar, we give an exquisite piece of frost-work from the prelude to Pail II. : — Down swept the chill wind from the mountain peak, From the snow five thousand summers old ; On open wold and hill-top bleak, It had gathered all the cold, And whirled it like sleet in the wanderer's... | |
| Sir Rutherford Alcock - 1857 - 312 Seiten
...through all and doth all unite, — The hand cannot clafp the whole of his alms, The heart outftretches its eager palms, For a God goes with it and makes it ftore To the foul that was ftarving in darknefs before." Poems by James RuJJel Lowell. CHARITY. is... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1858 - 342 Seiten
...Beauty Which runs through all and doth all unite,— The hand cannot clasp the whole of his alms,The heart outstretches its eager palms, For a god goes...SECOND. DOWN swept the chill wind from the mountain From the snow five thousand summers old; On open wold and hill-top bleak And whirled it like sleet... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1857 - 334 Seiten
...Beauty Which runs through all and doth all unite, — The hand cannot clasp the whole of his alms, The heart outstretches its eager palms, For a god...To the soul that was starving in darkness before." 1'KKLUDE TO PART HECOND. DOWN swept the chill wind from the mountain peak, From the snow five thousand... | |
| Beautiful poetry - 1858 - 350 Seiten
...description is token from a poem by JAMES R. LOWELL, an American poet, entitled the The Vision of Sir LaunfaL DOWN swept the chill wind from the mountain peak, From the snow five thousand summers old ; On open wold and hill-top bleak It had gather'd all the cold, And whiri'd it like sleet on the wanderer's... | |
| Susan Warner, Anna Bartlett Warner - 1860 - 528 Seiten
...ice palace of the little brook, with which he had threatened her before. — ' Down swept the cold wind from the mountain peak, From the snow five thousand summers old" — etc. " O," exclaimed Faith, " I have seen just such a brook ! I have played in it ; when mother... | |
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