 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - Readers - 1878 - 508 pages
...groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity ; Himself from God he could not free ; He builded better than he knew — The conscious stone to beauty grew. 4. Know'st thou what wove yon wood-bird's nest Of leaves, and feathers from her breast ? Or how the... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - American poetry - 1879 - 480 pages
...the aisles of Christian Borne, Wrought in a sue? sincerity ; Himself from God b.9 could not free ; He builded better than he knew ; — The conscious stone to beauty grew." 60. That the far-off grove still faintly perfumes. W. The old Phillips Academy building, now used for... | |
 | John McGovern - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1880 - 762 pages
...groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew; — The conscious stone to beauty grew. THE reader who has grown out of a motherless boy in spite of the adverse surroundings of childhood may... | |
 | William Swinton - American literature - 1880 - 694 pages
...groined the aisles of Christian Rome, x, Wrought in a sad sincerity, Himself from God he could not free ; He builded better than he knew, The conscious stone to beauty grew. Know'st thou what wove yon wood-bird's nest 25 Of leaves and feathers from her breast ; Or how the... | |
 | North American review - 1880 - 672 pages
...groined the aisles of Christian Rome, "Wrought in a sad sincerity ; Himself from God he conld not free ; He builded better than he knew — The conscious stone to beauty grew. Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone ; And Morning opes with haste her lids... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1124 pages
...groined the aisles of Christian Home, Wrought in a sad sincerity ; Himself from God he could not free ; r, And spent with changing blows ; And oft they thought him sinking, But Know'st thou what wove yon woodbird's nest Of leaves, and feathers from her breast ? Or how the fish... | |
 | David M. Main - Sonnets, English - 1880 - 490 pages
...groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity ; Himself from God he could not free ; He builded better than he knew ; — The conscious stone to beauty grew.' PAGE earlier on nearly the same spot of ground, "What ! you are stepping westward?" This earlier poem,... | |
 | William Adolphus Wheeler - Allusions - 1881 - 600 pages
...groined the aisl s of Christian Kome, Wrought in a nad sincerity. Himself from God he could not free : He builded better than he knew; The conscious stone to beauty grew. Emerson. A spiritual empire there embodied stood ; The Roman Church there met me face to face ; Ages,... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1881 - 1138 pages
...groin'd the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity. Himself from God he could not free ; sX Know'st thou what wove yon wood-bird's nest Of leaves, and feathers from her breast ? Or how the fish... | |
 | Orestes Augustus Brownson - Literature - 1885 - 620 pages
...groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity. Himself from God he could not free: He builded better than he knew, The conscious stone to beauty grew." The true ontology is expressed in the first verse of Genesis: In principio creavit L>eus coslum et terram,... | |
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The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity: Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew : The conscious stone to beauty grew. 
