 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...wise, Nor pauses in his plan, Will take the sun out of the skies Ere freedom out of man. THE PliOBLEM. I LIKE a church; I like a cowl; I love a prophet of...; And on my heart monastic aisles Fall like sweet strains, or pensive smiles; Yet not for all his faith can see Would 1 that cowled churchman be. Why... | |
 | Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - Transcendentalism - 1841 - 564 pages
...thee — Father, aid thou thy son. VOL.. I. NO. I. 16 THE PROBLEM. I LIKE a church, I like a cow], I love a prophet of the soul, And on my heart monastic aisles Fall like sweet strains or pensive smiles, Yet not for all his faith can see Would I that cowled churchman be. Why... | |
 | Criticism - 1864 - 752 pages
...never been better expressed than in the following familiar and vigorous lines of an American writer: " I like a church ; I like a cowl ; I love a prophet of the noul ; And in my heart monastic aisles Fall like sweet strains, or pensive smiles ; Yet not for all... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1844 - 136 pages
...known by his critical and philosophical writings, though as a poet he has great merit. THE PROBLEM. \ I LIKE a church, I like a cowl, I love a prophet of...soul, And on my heart monastic aisles Fall like sweet strains or pensive smiles, Yet not for all his faith can see Would I that cowled churchman be. Why... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 264 pages
...morning bird ; — Beauty through my senses stole ; I yielded myself to the perfect whole. THE PROBLEM. I LIKE a church ; I like a cowl ; I love a prophet...; And on my heart monastic aisles Fall like sweet strains, or pensive smiles ; Yet not for all his faith can see Would I that cowled churchman be. Why... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1852 - 588 pages
...Spoke the universal dame, " Who telleth one of my meanings Is master of all I am." THE PROBLEM. I LIKS a church, I like a cowl, I love a prophet of the soul, And on my heart monastic aisles Fall like sweet strains or pensive smiles, Yet not for all his faith can sec Would I that cowled churchman be. Why... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1855 - 690 pages
...voices Spoke the universal dame, " Who tclleth one of my meanings la master of all I am." THE PROBLEM. I LIKE a church, I like a cowl, I love a prophet of...soul, And on my heart monastic aisles Fall like sweet strains or pensive smiles, Yet not for all his faith can see Would I that cowled churchman be. Why... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - American literature - 1856 - 838 pages
...thought, And triumph glistening in the clear blue eye, Too bright to live, — but oh, too fair to die. 1 like a church ; I like a cowl : I love a prophet of...; And on my heart monastic aisles Fall like sweet strains, or pensive smile* ; Yet not for all his fuith can see Would I that cowled churchman be. Why... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - American literature - 1856 - 808 pages
...triumph glistening in the clear blue eye, Too bright to live, — but oh, too fair to die. TIIK PBOBLXM. I like a church ; I like a cowl : I love a prophet of the soul ; And on my heart monastic aisles Fnll like sweet strains, or pensive smile? ; Yet not for all his faith can see Would I that cowled... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - American literature - 1856 - 816 pages
...glistening in the clear blue eye, Too bright to live,—but oh, too fair to die. thought, THE ru.nti.yy. I like a church ; I like a cowl: I love a prophet of the soul; Fall like sweet strains, or pensive smile's; And on my heart monastic aisles Yet not for all his faith... | |
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I like a church; I like a cowl; I love a prophet of the soul; And on my heart monastic aisles Fall like sweet strains, or pensive smiles; Yet not for all his faith can see Would I that cowled churchman be. 
