The ProfessorHarper & brothers, 1900 - 546 pages |
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Page 527 - Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Page 478 - I hoped that with the brave and strong My portioned task might lie ; To toil amid the busy throng, With purpose pure and high. " But God has fixed another part, And He has fixed it well: I said so with my bleeding heart, When first the anguish fell.
Page 380 - So said I, and still say the same; Still, to my death, will say — Three gods, within this little frame, Are warring night and day; Heaven could not hold them all, and yet They all are held in me; And must be mine till I forget My present entity! Oh, for the time, when in my breast Their struggles will be o'er! Oh, for the day, when I shall rest, And never suffer more!
Page 160 - LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is ; that I may know how frail I am.
Page 402 - STANZAS TO WELL, some may hate, and some may scorn, And some may quite forget thy name ; But my sad heart must ever mourn Thy ruined hopes, thy blighted fame ! 'Twas thus I thought, an hour ago, Even weeping o'er that wretch's woe ; One word turned back my gushing tears, And lit my altered eye with sneers. Then " Bless the friendly dust," I said, " That hides thy unlamented head ! Vain as thou wert, and weak as vain, The slave of Falsehood, Pride, and Pain — My heart has nought akin to thine ;...
Page 381 - COLD in the earth, and the deep snow piled above thee ; Far, far removed, cold in the dreary grave ! Have I forgot, my only love, to love thee, Severed at last by time's all-severing wave ? Now, when alone, do my thoughts no longer hover Over the mountains, on that northern shore, Resting their wings where heath and fern-leaves cover Thy noble heart for ever, ever more ? Cold in the earth, and fifteen wild Decembers From those brown hills have melted into spring ; Faithful...
Page 445 - A little and a lone green lane That opened on a common wide; A distant, dreamy, dim blue chain Of mountains circling every side. A heaven so clear, an earth so calm, So sweet, so soft, so hushed an air; And, deepening still the dream-like charm, Wild moor-sheep feeding everywhere.
Page 463 - There is not room for Death, Nor atom that his might could render void : Thou— THOU art Being and Breath, And what THOU art may never be destroyed.
Page 5 - I said to myself that my hero should work his way through life as I had seen real living men work theirs — that he should never get a shilling he had not earned — that no sudden turns should lift him in a moment to wealth and high station...
Page 462 - No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere : I see Heaven's glories shine, And faith shines equal, arming me from fear. O God within my breast, Almighty, ever-present Deity ! Life — that in me has rest, As I — undying Life — have power in thee ! Vain are the thousand creeds That move men's hearts : unutterably vain ; Worthless as withered weeds, Or idlest froth amid the boundless main, To waken doubt in one Holding so fast by thine infinity ; So surely anchored...