The Song of Songs Commonly Called the Song of Solomon, Or The CanticleWilliams and Norgate, 1873 - 76 pages |
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The Song of Songs, Commonly Called the Song of Solomon, Or the Canticle Albert Reville No preview available - 2017 |
The Song of Songs, Commonly Called the Song of Solomon, Or, the Canticle Albert Réville No preview available - 2017 |
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affection is unyielding allegorical interpretation appear ardent ascribed Baal-hamon beauty Behold betrothed sister Bible biblical Biblical Canon Book of Kings brothers Canon Canticle charming chaste CHORUS OF WOMEN Christ Church Cocceius compared conjuration daughters of Jerusalem divine drama dramatic elements Ephraimite espousals explanation express fair flowers garden girl Grotius hand harem heart so inclines Hebrew Hoekstra Hohelied Holy idea imagination immoral Israelites Jeroboam II Jewish Judah King Solomon kingdom kingdom of Judah kings of Israel Lebanon lover Mahanaim maintained manner marriage modern monotheistic moral myrrh natural necessary North of Palestine Palestine perfumes poem poet poetic poetry provoke love religious scene Schouby Semitic races sentiment Shulamite singing solo SONG OF SONGS soul loveth spices spikenard Talmud tendency Testament thee Theocritus Theodore of Mopsuestia thou art thy beloved tion Tirzah traditional true love verse VIII vineyard voice well-beloved wished word ye stir
Popular passages
Page 1 - Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Page 37 - The voice of my beloved ! behold he cometh Leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills. My beloved is like a roe or a young hart : Behold, he standeth behind our wall, He looketh forth at the windows, Shewing himself through the lattice.
Page 39 - I will rise now, and go about the city In the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth : I sought him, but I found him not.
Page 45 - Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; Blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out.
Page 44 - Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, with me from Lebanon: look from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon, from the lions' dens, from the mountains of the leopards.
Page 51 - Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?
Page 46 - I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.
Page 49 - My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, To feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
Page 45 - Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits, camphire, with spikenard, Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices: A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.