 | Plato - Utopias - 1888 - 418 pages
...question, or if partly in dreaming, then with such dreams as are the inspiration of waking moments, when " Tasks in hours of insight willed Can be through hours of gloom fulfilled. " For this is the secret of Plato, that he is a dreamer, but a dreamer who is also a man of the world... | |
 | William Channing Gannett, James Vila Blake, Frederick Lucian Hosmer - Hymns, English - 1880 - 280 pages
...God's own might forever strong, And calm with God's own peace. WH HURLEUT. 55. Morality. Milton, 15. WE cannot kindle when we will The fire that in the...insight willed, Can be through hours of gloom fulfilled. With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; AVe bear the burden and the... | |
 | Children's poetry, English - 1889 - 552 pages
...earth, and all ye need to know." J. KEATS 165.— MORALITY WE cannot kindle when we will The fire which in the heart resides ; The spirit bloweth and is still,...insight willed Can be through hours of gloom fulfilled. With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone ; We bear the burden and the... | |
 | Amanda Minnie Douglas - 1889 - 470 pages
...Leighton Osborne bitterly. But Betty does not taste that in the good-by kiss. CHAPTER XIII A LOVER " WE cannot kindle when we will, The fire that in the...bloweth and is still, In mystery our soul abides." IF Virginia's descriptions are much less satisfactory than Betty's, she is still supremely content.... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1889 - 258 pages
...finds himself, loses his misery ! " MORALITY. "\ ~\ 7"E cannot kindle when we will * * The fire which in the heart resides The spirit bloweth and is still,...mystery our soul abides. But tasks in hours of insight will'd Can be through hours of gloom fulfill'd. With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap,... | |
 | William Wilberforce Newton - Clergy - 1890 - 302 pages
...to this mysterious and yet universal experience : — " We cannot kindle when we will The fire which in the heart resides : The spirit bloweth and is still,...insight willed Can be through hours of gloom fulfilled. " With aching hands and bleeding feet, We dig and heap, lay stone on stone ; We leave the burden and... | |
 | Irène Hardy - English language - 1890 - 186 pages
...mode of God with his elect, Their hopes exactly to fulfill In times and ways they least expect. II. But tasks in hours of insight willed Can be through hours of gloom fulfilled. MATTHEW ARNOLD. 12. But the majestic river floated on Out of the mist and hum of that low land Into... | |
 | William Wilberforce Newton - Clergy - 1890 - 300 pages
...to this mysterious and yet universal experience : — " We cannot kindle when we will The fire which in the heart resides: The spirit bloweth and is still, In mystery our soul ahides. But tasks in hours of insight willed Can be through hours of gloom fulfilled. "With aching... | |
 | English periodicals - 1891 - 590 pages
...sufficingness. These are heard in Arnold's stanza, — We cannot kindle when \ve will The fire which in the heart resides ; The spirit bloweth and is still,...mystery our soul abides. But tasks in hours of insight will'd Can be through hours of gloom fulfill'd. They are heard yet again in the lines of In Memoriam,... | |
 | Harriet Eliza Paine - Self-culture - 1892 - 228 pages
...against her. Her act was the physical counterpart of what Matthew Arnold means when he says, — " We cannot kindle when we will The fire that in the heart resides, But tasks in hours ofinsight willed Can be in hours of gloom fulfilled." The power of will is sometimes... | |
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WE cannot kindle when we will The fire which in the heart resides; The spirit bloweth and is still, In mystery our soul abides. But tasks in hours of insight will'd Can be through hours of gloom fulfill'd. 
