 What rainbows teach, and sunsets show? Verdict which accumulates From lengthening scroll of human fates, Voice of earth to earth returned, Prayers of saints that inly burned,— Saying, What is excellent, As God lives, is permanent; Hearts are dust, hearts'...  Brownson's Quarterly Review - Page 274edited by - 1847Full view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 244 pages
...Masterpiece of love benign ! Fairer that expansive reason Whose omen 'tis, and sign. Wilt thou not ope this heart to know What rainbows teach and sunsets show, Verdict which accumulates From lengthened scroll of human fates, Voice of earth to earth returned, Prayers of hearts that inly burned... | |
 | M. A. H. - 1849 - 160 pages
...last a season, Masterpiece of love benign ; Fairer that expansive reason, Whose omen 't is, and sign. Wilt thou not ope thy heart to know What rainbows...excellent, •As God lives, is permanent; Hearts are dust, heart's loves remain ; Heart's love will meet thee again. Revere the Maker ; fetch thine eye Up to... | |
 | Sarah Carter Edgarton Mayo - 1849 - 334 pages
...our grief? Shall we not rather repose upon the belief that nothing which is loved can ever die ? 1 What is excellent, As God lives, Is permanent : Hearts are dust, hearts' loves remain ; Hearts' love will meet thee again.' If, then, we believe in the immortality of those who have gone... | |
 | Lucy Larcom - 1867 - 308 pages
...wine, And summer heat ; and also for The frost upon the sycamore, And hail upon the vine. EB BROWNING. WILT thou not ope thy heart to know What rainbows teach, and sunsets show, — Voice of earth to earth returned, Prayers of saints that inly burned, — Saying, " What is excellent,... | |
 | 1910 - 1076 pages
...to read " Snow-Fire," in spite of his taste and principles. (Harper & Brothers, New York. $1.50.) " Wilt thou not ope thy heart to know what rainbows teach and sunsets show?" is the motto explaining " A Cycle of Sunsets," by Mabel Loomis Todd. Contemplating the beauty and meaning... | |
 | Breathings - 1872 - 292 pages
...upon it from under the light of His eyes. Death is this, and it is beauty and it is peace. EUTHANASY. WILT thou not ope thy heart to know What rainbows teach, and sunsets show — Voice of earth to earth returned, \ Prayers of saints that inly burned- — Saying, " What is excellent,... | |
 | 1873 - 182 pages
...sing, and, singing, in their glory move. And wipe the tears forever from his eyes. — Miltor.. . . . . What is excellent, As God lives, is permanent ; Hearts are dust, hearts' loves remain ; Hearts' love will meet thee again. — Emerson MEMOIR. FRANK RUSSELL FIRTH was born in Clappville... | |
 | 1875 - 714 pages
...not taken the child . . . My servant Death, with solving rite, Pours finite into infinite. . . . " What is excellent, As God lives, is permanent ; Hearts...hearts' loves remain, Heart's love will meet thee again. . . House and tenant go to ground, Lost in God, in Godhead found." The deep heart that speaks in these... | |
 | 1875 - 402 pages
...not taken the child . . . My servant Death, with solving rite, Fours finite into infinite. . . . ' What is excellent, As God lives, is permanent ; Hearts...hearts' loves remain, Heart's love will meet thee again, . . . House and tenant go to ground, Lost in God, in Godhead found.' The deep heart that speaks in... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 516 pages
...last a season ; Masterpiece of love benign Fairer that expansive reason Whose omen 't is, and sign. Wilt thou not ope thy heart to know What rainbows...inly burned, — Saying, What is excellent, As God lines, is permanent ; Hearts are da-it, heart*? loves remain, Heart's love will meet tkee again. Revere... | |
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