 For, ah, who can express How full of bonds and simpleness Is God, How narrow is He, And how the wide, waste field of possibility Is only trod Straight to His homestead in the human heart, And all His art Is as the babe's that wins his Mother to repeat...  The Quarterly Review - Page 1101923Full view - About this book
 | Coventry Patmore - 1890 - 296 pages
...every hour, By day and night, Buildeth new bulwarks 'gainst the Infinite. For, ah, who can express How full of bonds and simpleness Is God, How narrow is He, And how the wide, waste field of possibility Is only trod Straight to His homestead in the human heart,... | |
 | Coventry Patmore, Francis Thompson - 1894 - 284 pages
...every hour, By day and night, Buildeth new bulwarks 'gainst the Infinite. For, ah, who can express How full of bonds and simpleness Is God, How narrow is He, And how the wide, waste field of possibility Is only trod Straight to His homestead in the human heart,... | |
 | Coventry Patmore - 1907 - 250 pages
...greatness of their innocent audacity, the unguessed greatness of their spouses. For, ah ! who can express How full of bonds and simpleness Is God ; How narrow is He, And how the wide, waste 6eld of possibility Is only trod Straight to His homestead in the human heart... | |
 | Elizabeth Waterhouse - 1908 - 776 pages
...with joy. He will rest in His love. He will joy over thee with singing. F*OR, ah ! who can express How full of bonds and simpleness Is God ; How narrow is He, And how the wide, waste field of possibility Is only trod Straight to His homestead in the human heart... | |
 | William Sharp, Elizabeth Amelia Sharp - 1912 - 452 pages
...himself, in these poems. I can find space for a few lines only from the second. For, ah, who can express How full of bonds and simpleness Is God, How narrow is He, And how the wide, waste field of possibility Is only trod Straight to His homestead in the human heart.... | |
 | 1913 - 906 pages
...that to meditate upon the Incarnation was the supreme and perfect wisdom. For ah ! who can express How full of bonds and simpleness Is God; How narrow is He, And how the wide, waste field of possibility Is only trod Straight to His homestead in the human heart... | |
 | Fiona McKay - 1917 - 472 pages
...Simplicity intends God ; Purity apprehends and tastes Him. Thomas a Kempis. For, ah ! who can express How full of bonds and simpleness Is God ; How narrow is He, And how the wide, waste field of possibility Is only trod Straight to His homestead in the human heart.... | |
 | Osbert Burdett - 1921 - 242 pages
...bulwarks 'gainst the Infinite ; and man becomes ' His semblance ' by so doing. For, ah, who can express How full of bonds and simpleness Is God, How narrow is He, And how the wide, waste field of possibility Is only trod Straight to His homestead in the human heart,... | |
 | 1923 - 874 pages
...the little that exceeds the great: Tis but in such captivity The unbounded Heavens know what they be! Who can express, he asks elsewhere — How full of...all in the radiance of a sudden extraordinary light. Although the subtilizing of sex is a chief purpose of his writing, it is not the only gift in his giving;... | |
 | 1923 - 874 pages
...Heavens know what they be! Who can express, he asks elsewhere — How full of bonds and simpleneas Is God, How narrow is He? To see things thus subtly...all in the radiance of a sudden extraordinary light. Although the subtilizing of sex is a chief purpose of his writing, it is not the only gift in his giving;... | |
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