 Back from that void I shrink in fear, And childlike hide myself in love : Show me what angels feel. Till then, I cling, a mere weak man, to men. You bid me lift my mean desires From faltering lips and fitful veins To sexless souls, ideal quires, Unwearied...  Journal - Page 37by International Garden Club - 1919Full view - About this book
 | William Johnson Cory - 1858 - 128 pages
...say there is no substance here, One great reality above : Back from that void I shrink in fear, And child-like hide myself in love : Show me what angels...very reason why I clasp them, is because they die. El7T« TIC) Hpa/cAtJTS, T6OV fUtntiv. THEY told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead ; They brought... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1892 - 996 pages
...dying fall." " Mimnermus in Church" weighs the preacher's adjuration, and makes an impetuous reply : Forsooth the present we must give To that which cannot...very reason why I clasp them is because they die. Among priceless lyrics from the Greek anthology to our own, those of joy and happy love and hope are... | |
 | 1883 - 378 pages
...say there is no substance here, One great reality above : Back from that void I shrink in fear, And child-like hide myself in love : Show me what angels...very reason why I clasp' them, is because they die. WILLIAM ALEXANDER A VISION OF OXFORD Methought I met a Lady yestereven ; Born 1834 A passionless grief,... | |
 | English poets - 1883 - 364 pages
...You bid me lift my mean desires From faltering lips and fitful veins To sexless souls, ideal quires, My mind with fonder welcome owns One dear dead friend's...very reason why I clasp them, is because they die. WILLIAM ALEXANDER A VISION OF OXFORD Methought I met a Lady yestereven ; Born 1824 A passionless grief,... | |
 | William James Linton, Richard Henry Stoddard - 1883 - 394 pages
...owns One dear dead friend's remember'd tones. Forsooth the present we must give To that which can not pass away ; All beauteous things for which we live By laws of time and space decay : But O, the very reason why I clasp them is because they die. A FRENCH SAILOR'S SCOTTISH SWEETHEART. I can... | |
 | 1887 - 890 pages
...et nihil fluit. Then comes" Mimnermus in Church," and complains very naturally and gracefully : — Forsooth the present we must give To that which cannot...very reason why I clasp them is because they die. Have we any hope that the eternal life, ubi totum stilt, will not only bar future loss but will restore... | |
 | 1887 - 564 pages
...slat et nihil Jluit. Then comes " Mimnermus in Church," and complains very naturally and gracefully, " Forsooth the present we must give To that which cannot...very reason why I clasp them is because they die." Have we any hope that the eternal life, ubi Mum stat will not only bar future loss but will restore... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1892 - 376 pages
...fall." "Mimnermus in Church" weighs the preacher's adjuration, and makes an impetuous reply: — " Forsooth the present we must give To that which cannot...very reason why I clasp them is because they die." Among priceless lyrics from the Greek anthology to our own, those of joy and happy love and hope are... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1895 - 388 pages
...Unwearied voices, wordless strains : My mind with fonder welcome owns One dear dead friend's remember' d tones. Forsooth the present we must give To that which...very reason why I clasp them, is because they die. HERACLEITUS1 THEY told me, Heracleitus, they told me you were dead, They brought me bitter news to... | |
 | John Churton Collins - 1896 - 504 pages
...say there is no substance here, One great reality above : Back from that void I shrink in fear, And child-like hide myself in love. Show me what angels...very reason why I clasp them, is because they die. w. CORY. CCLVI CARPE DIEM YOUTH, that pursuest with such eager pace Thy even way, Thou pantest on to... | |
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