Carmina Mariana: An English Anthology in Verse in Honour of Or in Relation to the Blessed Virgin Mary

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Orby Shipley
editor, 1893 - Počet stran: 439
 

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Strana 270 - Moses thou, though spells and charms withstand, Hast brought them nobly home back to their Holy Land. Ah wretched we, poets of Earth! but thou Wert living the same poet which thou'rt now, Whilst angels sing to thee their airs divine, And joy in an applause so great as thine.
Strana 40 - Seraph of Heaven ! too gentle to be human, Veiling beneath that radiant form of Woman All that is insupportable in thee Of light, and love, and immortality...
Strana 72 - Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with the crown wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.
Strana 426 - MOTHER ! whose virgin bosom was uncrost With the least shade of thought to sin allied ; Woman ! above all women glorified, Our tainted nature's solitary boast...
Strana 271 - Elisha-Iike (but with a wish much less, More fit thy greatness, and my littleness) Lo here I beg (I whom thou once didst prove So humble to esteem, so good to love...
Strana 336 - That day when death was sent to break From the tir'd spirit, like a veil, Its covenant with Gabriel Endured at length unto the end? What human thought can apprehend That mystery of motherhood When thy Beloved at length renew'd The sweet communion severed, — His left hand underneath thine head And His right hand embracing thee? — Lo ! He was thine, and this is He...
Strana 335 - ... off the trees were as pale wands Against the fervid sky: the sea Sighed further off eternally As human sorrow sighs in sleep. Then suddenly the awe grew deep, As of a day to which all days Were footsteps in God's secret ways: Until a folding sense, like prayer. Which is, as God is, everywhere, Gathered about thee; and a voice Spake to thee without any noise. Being of the silence: - "Hail...
Strana 265 - This is indeed the blessed Mary's land, Virgin and Mother of our dear Redeemer! All hearts are touched and softened at her name, Alike the bandit, with the bloody hand, The priest, the prince, the scholar, and the peasant, The man of deeds, the visionary dreamer, Pay homage to her as one ever present...
Strana 271 - And for a sacred mistress scorn'd to take But her whom God himself scorn'd not his spouse to make. It (in a kind) her miracle did do ; A fruitful mother was, and virgin too, How well, blest swan, did fate contrive thy death ; And make thee render up thy tuneful breath In thy great mistress...
Strana 334 - AVE. MOTHER of the Fair Delight, Thou handmaid perfect in God's sight, Now sitting fourth beside the Three, Thyself a woman-Trinity, — Being a daughter borne to God, Mother of Christ from stall to rood, And wife unto the Holy Ghost : — Oh when our need is uttermost, Think that to such as death may strike Thou once wert sister sisterlike ! Thou headstone of humanity, Groundstone of the great Mystery, Fashioned like us, yet more than...

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