The Sewanee Review, Volume 24University of the South, 1916 |
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... Mystical Interpretation of .. At the Bureau of Information ... Avaricious of Duty .... Bret Harte , Francis .. AUTHOR PAGE Earl L. Bradsher 458 .Arthur Edwin Bye 177 Caroline Francis Richardson 303 ..Margaret Lynn 412 Edwin W. Bowen 287 ...
... Mystical Interpretation of .. At the Bureau of Information ... Avaricious of Duty .... Bret Harte , Francis .. AUTHOR PAGE Earl L. Bradsher 458 .Arthur Edwin Bye 177 Caroline Francis Richardson 303 ..Margaret Lynn 412 Edwin W. Bowen 287 ...
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... Mystical love of the divine , of Jesus or of Mary , often had the mode of expression and even the quality of sexual love ... mystic for Christ often strangely resembles human love , Christ the lover to whom the woman yields herself . The ...
... Mystical love of the divine , of Jesus or of Mary , often had the mode of expression and even the quality of sexual love ... mystic for Christ often strangely resembles human love , Christ the lover to whom the woman yields herself . The ...
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... mystic and lover , upon different planes , are alike responding to the call of the Spirit of Life . The language of human passion is tepid and insignificant beside the language in which mystics try to tell the splendours of their true ...
... mystic and lover , upon different planes , are alike responding to the call of the Spirit of Life . The language of human passion is tepid and insignificant beside the language in which mystics try to tell the splendours of their true ...
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... mystic yearning for God . Beyond the sphere which spreads to widest space Now soars the sigh that my heart sends above ; A new perception born of grieving Love Guideth it upward the untrodden ways . When it hath reached unto the end ...
... mystic yearning for God . Beyond the sphere which spreads to widest space Now soars the sigh that my heart sends above ; A new perception born of grieving Love Guideth it upward the untrodden ways . When it hath reached unto the end ...
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... mystical love is that ideally it is a pursuit of something unattainable , - " The desire of the moth for the star , Of the night for the morrow , The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow . " It is this quality which ...
... mystical love is that ideally it is a pursuit of something unattainable , - " The desire of the moth for the star , Of the night for the morrow , The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow . " It is this quality which ...
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Page 484 - ALAS ! and did my Saviour bleed ? And did my Sovereign die ? Would he devote that sacred head For such a worm as I...
Page 102 - I can give not what men call love, But wilt thou accept not The worship the heart lifts above And the Heavens reject not, The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow...
Page 167 - The cheerful haunts of man, to wield the axe And drive the wedge in yonder forest drear, From morn to eve his solitary task. Shaggy and lean and shrewd, with pointed ears And tail cropped short, half lurcher and half cur, His dog attends him.
Page 456 - Hark! where my blossomed pear-tree in the hedge Leans to the field and scatters on the clover Blossoms and dewdrops — at the bent spray's edge That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, Lest you should think he never could recapture The first fine careless rapture!
Page 164 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumor of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more...
Page 253 - That when any harbor or other place in the American continents is so situated that the occupation thereof for naval or military purposes might threaten the communications or the safety of the United States, the Government of the United States could not see without grave concern the possession of such harbor or other place by any corporation or association which has such a relation to another Government, not American, as to give that Government practical power of control for naval or military purposes.
Page 90 - In my sleep I was fain of their fellowship, fain Of the live-oak, the marsh, and the main. The little green leaves would not let me alone in my sleep; Up-breathed from the marshes, a message of range and of sweep, Interwoven with waftures of wild sea-liberties, drifting, Came through the lapped leaves sifting, sifting, Came to the gates of sleep.
Page 456 - And feeling it shameful to feel aught but shame All through her heart, yet felt her cheek burned so, She must a little touch it; like one lame She walked away from Gauwaine...
Page 495 - It will be my endeavour to relate the history of the people as well as the history of the government, to trace the progress of useful and ornamental arts, to describe the rise of religious sects and the changes of literary taste, to portray the manners of successive generations, and not to pass by with neglect even the revolutions which have taken place in dress, furniture, repasts, and public amusements.
Page 450 - But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubims : Such harmony is in immortal souls ; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.