How pure at heart and sound in head, With what divine affections bold Should be the man whose thought would hold An hour's communion with the dead. In vain shalt thou, or any, call The spirits from their golden day, Except, like them, thou too canst say,... The Open Door: Sermons and Prayers - Página 425por Oscar C. McCulloch - 1892 - 438 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1886 - 694 páginas
...for words to name; That in this blindness of the frame My Ghost may feel that thine is near. xciv. How pure at heart and sound in head, With what divine...thought would hold An hour's communion with the dead. 272 *73 In vain shalt thou, or any, call The spirits from their golden day, Except,like them, thou... | |
| Edwin Percy Whipple - 1886 - 696 páginas
...bold, Should be the man whose thought would hold An hour's communion with the dead ! " In vain shalt thou, or any, call The spirits from their golden day,...Except, like them, thou too canst say, ' My spirit ia at peace with all.' " They haunt the silence of the breast, Imaginations calm and fair, The memory... | |
| Herbert A. James - 1887 - 248 páginas
...sins from a living Christ, it was harder work still not to feel conscious of them now. " How clear in heart, and sound in head, With what divine affections bold, Should be the man whose thoughts would hold An hour's communion with the dead," — how much more with a risen but omniscient... | |
| Amory Howe Bradford - 1888 - 288 páginas
...spiritual truth. Tennyson's lines on the dwellers in the spirit-realm may be applied to such truths : " How pure at heart and sound in head, With what divine...hold An hour's communion with the dead. " In vain shalt thou, or any, call The spirits from their golden day, Except like them thou too canst say, My... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1904 - 328 páginas
...strong for words to name, That in this blindness of the frame My Ghost may feel that thine is near. XCIV How pure at heart and sound in head, With what divine...would hold An hour's communion with the dead. In vain shalt thou, or any, call The spirits from their golden day, Except, like them, thou too canst say,... | |
| 1904 - 1058 páginas
...landing-place to clasp and say, " Farewell ! We lose ourselves in light." SPIRITUAL COMPANIONSHIP. XCIII. How pure at heart and sound in head, With what divine...thought would hold An hour's communion with the dead. Except, like them, thou too canst say, My spirit is at peace with all. They haunt the silence of the... | |
| Amory Howe Bradford - 1905 - 384 páginas
...of spiritual sight. Tennyson has expressed a profound truth in these lines from " In Memoriam " : " In vain shall thou, or any, call The spirits from their golden day, [290] Except, like them, thou too canst say, My spirit is at peace with all. " They haunt the silence... | |
| John William Taylor - 1906 - 450 páginas
...St. Maximinus received his heavenly crown. THE TRADITIONS OF THE THREE MARIES AND THEIR COMPANIONS " How pure at heart and sound in head, With what divine...would hold An hour's communion with the dead ! In vain shalt thou, or any, call The spirits from their golden day, Except, like them, thou too canst say,... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1906 - 212 páginas
...for words to name ; That in this blindness of the frame My Ghost may feel that thine is near. XCIV. How pure at heart and sound in head, With what divine...thought would hold An hour's communion with the dead. 2. In vain shalt thou, or any, call The spirits from their golden day, Except, like them, thou too... | |
| William Juvenal Colville - 1906 - 368 páginas
...with beings ordinarily invisible from the earthly standpoint. The poet truly sings : '' " How pure in heart and sound in head With what divine affections bold Should be the man whose thoughts would hold An hour's communion with the dead." These stirring lines, and the three verses... | |
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