 ... art, To comfort his sad heart. So when that night I pray'd To God, I wept, and said: Ah! when at last we lie with tranced breath, Not vexing Thee in death, And Thou rememberest of what toys We made our joys, How weakly understood Thy great commanded...  The Cornhill Magazine - Page 833edited by - 1905Full view - About this book
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...our joys, How weakly understood Thy great commanded good, Then, fatherly not less Than I whom Thou hast moulded from the clay, Thou'lt leave Thy wrath...and say, ' I will be sorry for their childishness." " Only we hope the number of those who can readily assign the poem to its author is after all, considerable... | |
 | Literature - 1877 - 798 pages
...our joys, How weakly understood, Thy great commanded good, Then, fatherly not less Than I whom Thou hast moulded from the clay, Thou'lt leave thy wrath,...and say, ' I will be sorry for their childishness.' " Ourauthor may feel aggrieved at our givingthe privilege of quotation to a strain that seems trivial... | |
 | 1877 - 790 pages
...our joys, How weakly understood, Thy great commanded good, Then, fatherly not less Than I whom Thou hast moulded from the clay, Thou'lt leave thy wrath,...and say, ' I will be sorry for their childishness.' " Ourauthor may feel aggrieved at our givfngthe privilege of quotation to a strain that seems trivial... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - 1878 - 416 pages
...our joys, How weakly understood, Thy great commanded good, Then, fatherly not less Than I whom Thou hast moulded from the clay, Thou'lt leave Thy wrath,...and say, " I will be sorry for their childishness." COVENTRY PATMORE.' ZOSS AND GAIN. YRIAD Roses, unregretted, perish in their vernal bloom, That the... | |
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...our joys, How weakly understood, Thy great commanded good, Then, fatherly not less Than I whom Thou hast moulded from the clay, Thou'lt leave Thy wrath,...and say, "I will be sorry for their childishness." COVENTRY PATMORE. xcvi. LOSS AND GAIN. YRIAD Roses, unregretted, perish in their vernal bloom, That... | |
 | Coventry Patmore - English poetry - 1879 - 264 pages
...our joys, How weakly understood, Thy great commanded good, Then, fatherly not less Than I whom Thou hast moulded from the clay, Thou'lt leave Thy wrath,...and say, " I will be sorry for their childishness." THE VIOLETS. T WENT not to the Dean's unhid t •*• I would not have my mystery, From her so delicately... | |
 | Coventry Patmore - English poetry - 1879 - 248 pages
...Thy great commanded good, Then, fatherly not less Than I whom Thou hast moulded from the clay, Thou1t leave Thy wrath, and say, " I will be sorry for their childishness." THE VIOLETS. T WENT not to the Dean's unhid ; I would not have my mystery, From her so delicately hid,... | |
 | Samuel Irenæus Prime - 1880 - 434 pages
...our joys, How weakly understood Thy great commanded good, Then, fatherly not less Than I whom thou hast moulded from the clay, Thou'lt leave thy wrath...and say, '"I will be sorry for their childishness." ' " "Thank you," I said, as she paused—her eyes filled with tears—" thank you : no child should... | |
 | Samuel Irenæus Prime - American essays - 1881 - 424 pages
...our joys, How weakly understood Thy great commanded good, Then, fatherly not less Than I whom thou hast moulded from the clay, Thou'lt leave thy wrath...say, " • I will be sorry for their childishness." ' " "Thank you," I said, as she paused — her eyes filled with tears — " thank you : no child should... | |
 | Richard Acland Armstrong - 1882 - 900 pages
...joys, How weakly understood Thy great commanded good, — Then, fatherly not less Than I whom Thou hast moulded from the clay, Thou'lt leave Thy wrath,...say — " I will be sorry for their childishness." CHARLES SHAKSPEARH. THE RELIGIOUS SITUATION IN FRANCE. To THE EDITOR OP THE MODERN KEVIEW. YOU ask... | |
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