Notes of an Indian JourneyMacmillan and Company, 1876 - 296 páginas |
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Página 5 - Ave Maria ! blessed be the hour ! The time, the clime, the spot, where I so oft Have felt that moment in its fullest power Sink o'er the earth so beautiful and soft, While swung the deep bell in the distant tower. Or the faint dying day-hymn stole aloft, And not a breath crept through the rosy air, And yet the forest leaves seem'd stirr'd with prayer.
Página 17 - I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head.
Página 18 - Oh, hear us when we Cry to Thee For those in peril on the sea!
Página 16 - Up from Earth's Centre through the Seventh Gate I rose, and on the Throne of Saturn sate, And many a Knot unravel'd by the Road ; But not the Master-knot of Human Fate.
Página 16 - Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great Argument About it and about: but evermore Came out by the same Door as in I went.
Página 17 - Ah, my Beloved, fill the Cup that clears To-day of past Regrets and future Fears : To-morrow! — Why, To-morrow I may be Myself with Yesterday's Sev'n thousand Years.
Página 16 - There was the Door to which I found no Key ; There was the Veil through which I might not see : Some little talk awhile of ME and THEE There was — and then no more of THEE and ME.
Página 170 - Shapes of all Sorts and Sizes, great and small, That stood along the floor and by the wall; And some loquacious Vessels were; and some Listened perhaps, but never talk'd at all.
Página 136 - O Christ ! je ne suis pas de ceux que la prière Dans tes temples muets amène à pas tremblants ; Je ne suis pas de ceux qui vont à ton Calvaire, En se frappant le cœur, baiser tes pieds sanglants...
Página 235 - I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, When the winds are breathing low, And the stars are shining bright : I arise from dreams of thee, And a spirit in my feet...