 And heard an ever-breaking shore That tumbled in the Godless deep, A warmth within the breast would melt The freezing reason's colder part, And like a man in wrath the heart Stood up and answered, "I have felt.  The North American Review - Page 16edited by - 1854Full view - About this book
 | Mary Wilder Tileston - American poetry - 1880 - 248 pages
...within, without ; The Power in darkness whom we guess ; I found Him not in world or sun, Or eagle's wing, or insect's eye ; Nor through the questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun : If e'er when faith had fallen asleep, I heard a voice, " Believe no more," And heard an ever-breaking... | |
 | Mary Wilder Tileston - 1884 - 444 pages
...within, without ; The Power in darkness whom we guess ; I found Him not in world or sun, Or eagle's wing, or insect's eye ; Nor through the questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun : If e'er when faith had fallen asleep, I heard a voice, " Believe no more," And heard an ever-breaking... | |
 | Children's poetry, English - 1889 - 552 pages
...within, without ; The Power in darkness whom we guess ; I found Him not in world or sun, Or eagle's wing, or insect's eye ; Nor through the questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun : If e'er when faith had fallen asleep, I heard a voice "believe no more," And heard an ever-breaking... | |
 | John William Diggle - Bishops - 1891 - 424 pages
...poet back upon his own indestructible convictions : " ' I found Him not in world or sun, Or eagle's wing, or insect's eye ; Nor through the questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun.' " Men say to-day we are prepared for this ; we don't care to seek because we know we shall never find.... | |
 | Edward Campbell Tainsh - 1893 - 338 pages
...alone give assurance of the life of the Universal Friend. " I found Him not in world or sun, Or eagle's wing, or insect's eye ; Nor through the questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun : " If e'er when faith had fall'n asleep, I heard a voice ' believe no more,' And heard an ever-breaking... | |
 | Charles Macauley Stuart - 1896 - 328 pages
...within, without ; The Power in darkness whom we guess ; I found Him not in world or sun, Or eagle's wing, or insect's eye ; Nor through the questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun : If e'er when faith had fallen asleep, I heard a voice, " Believe no more," And heard an ever-breaking... | |
 | James Lindsay - Literature - 1896 - 238 pages
...? It is the poet of " In Memoriam " who has said, — " I found Him not in world or sun, Or eagle's wing, or insect's eye ; Nor through the questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun." No, not by the way of the understanding, nor by the paths of nature, did he find God, but as He is... | |
 | Sara A. Francis Underwood, Sara A. Underwood - Automatism - 1896 - 362 pages
...All; within, without; The Power in darkness whom we guess : I found him not in world or sun Or eagle's wing, or insect's eye, Nor through the questions men may try The pretty cobwebs we have spun. Yet later speaks undoubtfully of That God which ever lives and loves ;... | |
 | Charles Caverno - Ethics - 1898 - 328 pages
...testimony, if such should be, from all other sources. ' 'I found him not in world or sun, Nor eagle's wing or insect's eye, Nor through the questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun. "If e'er when faith had fallen asleep I heard a voice — 'Believe no more,' And heard an ever breaking... | |
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