Religious Thought in the Greater American PoetsPilgrim Press, 1922 - 258 páginas |
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... hope that is within them ? Surely such men , it might be argued , are able to speak upon matters of faith with something like a nearer approach to finality than can any group of writers whose preachments- beautiful in form though they ...
... hope that is within them ? Surely such men , it might be argued , are able to speak upon matters of faith with something like a nearer approach to finality than can any group of writers whose preachments- beautiful in form though they ...
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... hope that in the hour of death we do not wholly die ; the undulating prairies were the work of " the Hand that built the firma- ment " ; the sea was mighty , " but a mightier swayed its restless billows " ; the ancient Apen- nines ...
... hope that in the hour of death we do not wholly die ; the undulating prairies were the work of " the Hand that built the firma- ment " ; the sea was mighty , " but a mightier swayed its restless billows " ; the ancient Apen- nines ...
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... hope that love and peace shall steadily increase until at last they make their paradise with man . In The Flood of Years , he again looks back upon the past and speaks of history as a wild , rushing torrent of which the foremost waves ...
... hope that love and peace shall steadily increase until at last they make their paradise with man . In The Flood of Years , he again looks back upon the past and speaks of history as a wild , rushing torrent of which the foremost waves ...
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... hope ever completely to harness . Now Bryant is a poet ; he is not a scientist ; neither , in the ordinary sense of the word , is he an inventor . And because he is a poet , he believes that his vision is sure . To him , God is no mere ...
... hope ever completely to harness . Now Bryant is a poet ; he is not a scientist ; neither , in the ordinary sense of the word , is he an inventor . And because he is a poet , he believes that his vision is sure . To him , God is no mere ...
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... hope , and confidence were constantly interchanging with one another in his mind , or mingling there in varying degrees . At times , it has already been pointed out , he saw no more than that where " the glittering current of life ...
... hope , and confidence were constantly interchanging with one another in his mind , or mingling there in varying degrees . At times , it has already been pointed out , he saw no more than that where " the glittering current of life ...
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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