 ... immortal. Longing is God's fresh heavenward will With our poor earthward striving; We quench it that we may be still Content with merely living; But, would we learn that heart's full scope Which we are hourly wronging, Our lives must climb from hope...  Beckonings of the Spirit - Page 3by Frederic Allen Hinckley - 1890Full view - About this book
 | Clara Bancroft Beatley - English poetry - 1903 - 244 pages
...splendor, soon or late, Will pierce the gloom : I shall emerge one day. Paracelsus. RORERT BROWNING. Ah ! let us hope that to our praise Good God not only...simply good in thought, Howe'er we fail in action. Longing. JAMES KUSSKLI, LOWKLL. XIV. Lobe tljat For life, with all it yields of joy and woe, And hope... | |
 | Clara Bancroft Beatley - English poetry - 1903 - 224 pages
...splendor, soon or late, Will pierce the gloom : I shall emerge one day. Paracelsus. BOBERT BROWNINQ. Ah ! let us hope that to our praise Good God not only...simply good in thought, Howe'er we fail in action. Longing. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. [116] JLobe ti&at For life, with all it yields of joy and woe, And hope... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1903 - 170 pages
...true ; nothing can need a lie, — A fault which needs it most grows two thereby. — George Herbert. "Ah! let us hope that to our praise Good God not only...self-satisfaction, When we are simply good in thought, However we fail in action." We must not try to write the laws of any one virtue, looking at that only.... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland - Religious poetry, English - 1903 - 136 pages
...Our lives must climb from hope to hope And realize our longing. Ah ! let us hope that to our praise But when the spirit beckons, — That some slight...simply good in thought, Howe'er we fail in action. /. R. Lowell. WEDNESDAY IF WE KNEW If we knew the woe and heartache That awaits us on the road, If... | |
 | Lilian Whiting - New Thought - 1903 - 392 pages
...the line, — " The good, though only thought, has life and breath ; " and in Lowell's words : — " Ah ! let us hope that to our praise Good God not only...when we tread His ways, But when the spirit beckons. " The thought-life is, indeed, the most real of the two lives, and dominates the other. The events... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1904 - 364 pages
...scope Which we are hourly wronging, Our lives must climb from hope to hope And realize our longing. Ah ! let us hope that to our praise Good God not only...simply good in thought, Howe'er we fail in action. ODE TO FRANCE FEBRUARY 1848 As flake by flake the beetling avalanches Build up their imminent crags... | |
 | Martin Grove Brumbaugh - Religious education - 1905 - 444 pages
...scope Which we are hourly wronging, Our lives must climb from hope to hope And realize our longing. Ah! let us hope that to our praise Good God not only...simply good in thought, Howe'er we fail in action. It is to be noted that this power to create ideals is an intentional power. It is different from dream-life... | |
 | Katherine Devereux Blake, Georgia Alexander - Poetry - 1906 - 120 pages
...lives must climb from hope to hope And realize our longing. Ah ! let us hope that to our praise 10 Good God not only reckons The moments when we tread...slight good is also wrought Beyond self-satisfaction, is When we are simply good in thought, Howe'er we fail in action. The Finding of the Lyre There lay... | |
 | Katherine Devereux Blake, Georgia Alexander - Children's poetry - 1906 - 112 pages
...scope 5 Which we are hourly wronging, Our lives must climb from hope to hope And realize our longing. Ah ! let us hope that to our praise Good God not only reckons 10 The moments when we tread His ways, But when the spirit beckons, — That some slight good is also... | |
 | Jenkin Lloyd Jones - Sermons, American - 1907 - 470 pages
...scope Which we are hourly wronging, Our lives must climb from hope to hope And realise our longing. Ah! let us hope that to our praise Good God not only...simply good in thought, Howe'er we fail in action. — James Russell Lowell IV IDEALS God hides some ideal in every human breast. — Robert Collyer Yes,... | |
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