The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment, Before the Present poor and bare Can make its sneering comment. Still, through our paltry stir and strife, Glows down the wished Ideal, And Longing moulds in clay what Life Carves in the... The Writings of James Russell Lowell ...: Poems - Página 250por James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 342 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Lilian Whiting - 1896 - 316 páginas
...acting upon them on the magnetic plane. In Lowell's poem entitled "Longing," these lines occur: — " Still, through our paltry stir and strife Glows down...And Longing moulds in clay what Life Carves in the Uissful real." Mr. Lowell does not italicize these last two lines, but this form will serve to emphasize... | |
| Robert Comfort Metcalf, Orville T. Bright - 1896 - 268 páginas
...The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment, Before the Present, poor and bare, Can make its sneering comment. Still, through our...and strife, Glows down the wished Ideal, And Longing molds in clay what Life To let the new life in, we know, Desire must ope the portal ; — Perhaps the... | |
| Henry Dox Kimball - 1896 - 262 páginas
...The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment, Before the present, poor and bare. Can make its sneering comment. " Still, through our...and strife. Glows down the wished ideal, And longing molds in clay what life Carves in the marble real. To let the new life in, we know, Desire must ope... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1897 - 580 páginas
...transcendent moment, Before the Present poor and bare Can make its sneering comment. Still, through oar paltry stir and strife, Glows down the wished Ideal,...fresh heavenward will With our poor earthward striving ; Vf e quench it that we may be still Content with merely living ; Bat, would we learn that neart's... | |
| Orison Swett Marden - 1897 - 392 páginas
...Lowell, — " Still, through our paltry ttir and strife, Glows down the wished ideal, And longing molds in clay what life Carves in the marble real; To let...Desire must ope the portal; Perhaps the longing to be to Helps make the soul immortal. " Longing is God's fresh heavenward will With our poor earthward striving;... | |
| Lilian Whiting - 1897 - 308 páginas
...acting upon them on the magnetic plane. In Lowell's poem entitled " Longing," these lines occur : — " Still, through our paltry stir and strife Glows down...And Longing moulds in clay what Life Carves in the blissful real." Mr. Lowell does not italicize these last two lines, but this form will serve to emphasize... | |
| Harry Cassell Davis - 1897 - 540 páginas
...The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment, Before the present, poor and bare, Can make its sneering comment. Still through our paltry...and strife Glows down the wished ideal, And Longing molds in clay what Life Carves in the marble real. To let the new life in, we know, Desire must ope... | |
| 1870 - 732 páginas
...and bare, Can moke its sneering comment. Still, through our paltry stir and strife, Grows down our wished ideal ; And longing moulds in clay what life Carves in the marble гел! ; To let the new life in we know liesire must ope the portal; Perhaps the longing to be so... | |
| James Willis Westlake - 1898 - 204 páginas
...The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment, Before the present, poor and bare, Can make its sneering comment. Still through our paltry...longing to be so Helps make the soul immortal. Longing. VL What a man pays for bread and butter is worth its market value, and no more; what he pays for love's... | |
| 1898 - 908 páginas
...single cry of longing or one unuttered whisper of vague hope.f Lowell beautifully puts the thought thus: Still through our paltry stir and strife Glows down...the longing to be so Helps make the soul immortal. If the reader ask for a model prayer according to my • " In Memorinm," stanza 68. t See " The Life... | |
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