Religious Thought in the Greater American PoetsPilgrim Press, 1922 - 258 páginas |
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Elmer James Bailey. Religious Thought in the Greater American Poets I THE POINT OF VIEW Religion may be defined as adjustment of life to spiritual ideals . This definition , it must be acknowledged , is not adequate to all purposes and ...
Elmer James Bailey. Religious Thought in the Greater American Poets I THE POINT OF VIEW Religion may be defined as adjustment of life to spiritual ideals . This definition , it must be acknowledged , is not adequate to all purposes and ...
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... certain widely accepted principles is of little importance here ; for our poets are not being tried upon the charge of heresy . The main point of interest with which we are concerned is , that they 2 Religion in American Poetry.
... certain widely accepted principles is of little importance here ; for our poets are not being tried upon the charge of heresy . The main point of interest with which we are concerned is , that they 2 Religion in American Poetry.
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... poetry and religion , in contrast with science and theology , address themselves mainly to the sensibilities . Thus it comes about that many a man who has lost his soul by ... poet and the prophet - the Hebrew 4 Religion in American Poetry.
... poetry and religion , in contrast with science and theology , address themselves mainly to the sensibilities . Thus it comes about that many a man who has lost his soul by ... poet and the prophet - the Hebrew 4 Religion in American Poetry.
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Elmer James Bailey. - that the poet and the prophet - the Hebrew prophet if one will ... poets of a later time have spoken with much the same insight and power ... America , it is true , has produced neither a Dante nor a Milton . Whatever ...
Elmer James Bailey. - that the poet and the prophet - the Hebrew prophet if one will ... poets of a later time have spoken with much the same insight and power ... America , it is true , has produced neither a Dante nor a Milton . Whatever ...
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... on by some force arising elsewhere than within . In other words , they too could say , not infrequently , like Hosea , the son of Beeri , " Then said the Lord unto me . " Surely , whatever our understanding of 6 Religion in American Poetry.
... on by some force arising elsewhere than within . In other words , they too could say , not infrequently , like Hosea , the son of Beeri , " Then said the Lord unto me . " Surely , whatever our understanding of 6 Religion in American Poetry.
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accepted admit Al Aaraaf American poets angels assert Auf wiedersehen beautiful belief Bryant called certainly Christ Christian Church conviction creed dead death divine doctrine doubt dream earth Edgar Allan Poe Elias Hicks Emerson eternal evil expression fact faith Father feel felt forever God's Golden Legend hand hath hear heart Heaven Holmes Holy Spirit hope human immortality Inner Light insisted Jesus Leaves of Grass less lesson light lines live Longfellow looked Lord Lowell Lowell's man's mind Nature never noble Oliver Wendell Holmes once Over-Soul pantheist passage perfect perhaps personality plainly Poe's poem poet's poetry prayer prophet Quaker question reader regarded religion religious thought Saint Saint Paul Scriptures seems sense Song sorrow soul speak spoke stars sure teachings thee things thou tion true trust truth uncon utter vision voice Whit Whitman Whittier wholly words wrote
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Página 179 - Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side; Some great cause, God's New Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the left hand and the sheep upon the right; And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.
Página 236 - Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own ; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And, even with something of a Mother's mind, And no unworthy aim, The homely Nurse doth all she can To make her Foster-child, her Inmate Man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. Behold the Child among his new-born blisses, A six years...
Página 43 - thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us - by that God we both adore Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore.
Página 4 - Nor thro' the questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun: If e'er when faith had fall'n asleep, I heard a voice "believe no more" And heard an ever-breaking shore That tumbled in the Godless deep; A warmth within the breast would melt The freezing reason's colder part, And like a man in wrath the heart Stood up and answer'd "I have felt.
Página 24 - So live that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan which moves To that mysterious realm where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of Death, Thou go not like the quarry -slave at night Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Página 117 - Two men went up into the temple to pray, the one a pharisee and the other a publican ; the pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican ; I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.
Página 175 - Where'er a single slave doth pine, Where'er one man may help another, — Thank God for such a birthright, brother, That spot of earth is thine and mine ! There is the true man's birthplace grand, His is a world-wide fatherland...
Página 29 - Wilt thou not keep the same beloved name, The same fair thoughtful brow, and gentle eye, Lovelier in heaven's sweet climate, yet the same ? Shalt thou not teach me, in that calmer home, The wisdom that I learned so ill in this — The wisdom which is love — till I become Thy fit companion in that land of bliss ? THE DEATH OF SCHILLER.
Página 107 - Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play! Who hath not learned, in hours of faith, The truth to flesh and sense unknown, That Life is ever lord of Death, And Love can never lose its own!
Página 172 - Slowly the Bible of the race is writ, And not on paper leaves nor leaves of stone ; Each age, each kindred, adds a verse to it, Texts of despair or hope, of joy or moan. While swings the sea, while mists the mountains shroud, While thunder's surges burst on cliffs of cloud, Still at the prophets