Religious Thought in the Greater American PoetsPilgrim Press, 1922 - 258 páginas |
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... faith were the poets of America in full agreement . Indeed , not one of them was completely orthodox in the exact meaning of that word . Yet that they were in accord neither with one another nor with certain widely accepted principles ...
... faith were the poets of America in full agreement . Indeed , not one of them was completely orthodox in the exact meaning of that word . Yet that they were in accord neither with one another nor with certain widely accepted principles ...
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... faith , why not go directly to the theologians or at least to clergymen who , it ought not to be too much to assume , have made a study of religion in its formal , its scientific aspect , and have thus fulfilled the injunction of Saint ...
... faith , why not go directly to the theologians or at least to clergymen who , it ought not to be too much to assume , have made a study of religion in its formal , its scientific aspect , and have thus fulfilled the injunction of Saint ...
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... faith had fallen 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 ...
... faith had fallen 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 ...
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... faith ; not by argument , but by intuition ; not by theology , but by religion ; not by science , but by poetry . - The poets of America especially are helpful to the man who is distraught by the restlessness , scepticism , and ...
... faith ; not by argument , but by intuition ; not by theology , but by religion ; not by science , but by poetry . - The poets of America especially are helpful to the man who is distraught by the restlessness , scepticism , and ...
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... faith in his poems . To succeed in that quest , one does not go to England , he remains at home Massachusetts in fact , for Bryant in his religious belief was clearly of Puritan heritage . On his father's side he traced his ancestry to ...
... faith in his poems . To succeed in that quest , one does not go to England , he remains at home Massachusetts in fact , for Bryant in his religious belief was clearly of Puritan heritage . On his father's side he traced his ancestry to ...
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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