...trembling are come upon me: and an horrible dread hath overwhelmed me. And I said, O that I had wings like a dove: for then would I flee away, and be at rest. Lo, then would I get me away far off: and remain in the wilderness. I would make haste to escape: because...

...favourable and gracious unto Sion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem. Psalm si. v. 15 10 () that I had wings like a dove: for then would I flee away, and be at rest. Psalrn SS> v. fS 1 1 It was even thou, my companion: my guide, and mine own familiar friend. We took...

...the beauty of the Lord, and to enquire in his temple. Psalm 27:4 KJV And 1 said, O that I had wings like a dove: for then would I flee away, and be at rest. Psalm 55:6 BCP Look to the Lord and be strong; at all times seek his presence. Psalm 105:4 REB For...

...intolerable affliction' (Owen, n. 796). The sentence from Psalms reads: 'And I said. Oh that I had wings like a dove, for then would I flee away and be at rest!' It is in fact a common tragic prayer— cf. 1238-9 and eg Euripides, Hippolytus 732. 813ff. For he...

...Psalmist cries: "Man walketh in a vain shadow and disquieteth himself in vain." "Oh, that I had wings like a dove, for then would I flee away and be at rest." We divide the world into God and creation, absolute unity and purity on one side, and a realm of discord...

...cannot freely fly unto Thee. He desired eagerly thus to fly, who cried, saying, Oh that I had wings like a dove, for then would I flee away and be at rest. What is more peaceful than the single eye? And what more free than he that desireth nothing upon earth?...

...to Densher would have been. The novel's title, which refers to the 55th Psalm ('Oh that I had wings like a dove! For then would I flee away, and be at rest'), can thus again be read in three ways. The first obvious dove, explicitly referred to as such in the...

...of love one whom my eyes have never seen, and silently say to myself : — ' " oh that I had wings like a dove ! for then would I flee away and be at rest," ' * Then would I find him '* whom my soul loveth." ' In you the Lord's words are now truly fulfilled...

...olden time1 might have worn, when to the sounding of his harp rose up the cry, "O, that I had wings like a dove, for then would I flee away and be at rest."2 The gleaming wings disappeared, and letting her listless glance wander over the front of the...