| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1890 - 460 pàgines
...instincts immature, All purposes unsure, That weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount : Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped; AH I could never be, All men ignored in me, This I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped.... | |
| Charles Cuthbert Hall - 1891 - 372 pàgines
...instincts immature, All purposes unsure, That weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount ; " Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act ; Fancies...was worth to God, Whose wheel the pitcher shaped." * Thou knowest all things ; all the secret of the Father, all the counsel of the Spirit, all the life... | |
| Charles Cuthbert Hall - 1891 - 372 pàgines
...yet swelled the man's amount ; " Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act ; Fancies that hroke through language and escaped ; All I could never be,...was worth to God, Whose wheel the pitcher shaped." l Thou knowest all things ; all the secret of the Father, all the counsel of the Spirit, all the life... | |
| 1891 - 728 pàgines
...of a man's feeling that is the measure of his capabilities, the test of the Divine spark within him. 'All I could never be, All, men ignored in me, This...was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped.' So, when his energies are nobly directed, whether he attains or fails, the man has accomplished the... | |
| 1891 - 448 pàgines
...yet swelled the man's amount. " Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies, that brohe through language and escaped ; All I could never be, All, men ignored in me, This, I was worth to Cod, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. " And they who hunger and thirst after righteousness shall be... | |
| Brooke Foss Westcott - 1891 - 420 pàgines
...despair? This: — 'tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do!1 All I could never bo, All, men ignored in me, This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand... | |
| Edward Berdoe - 1891 - 210 pàgines
...could ever be brought to notice, the ethereal fancies, the noble aspirations, the longing after God — All I could never be, All men ignored in me ; This I was worth to God. And God's measure is not coarse, and His balanc^ weighs the evanescent fancy, and His rod measures... | |
| Robert Browning - 1892 - 466 pàgines
...instincts immature, All purposes unsure, That weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount : xxv. Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies...was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. XXVI. Ay, note that Potter's wheel, That metaphor ! and feel Why time spins fast, why passive lies... | |
| Robert Browning - 1892 - 488 pàgines
...purposes unsure, That weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount: XXV. Thoughts hardly to>be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through...was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. XXVI. Ay, note that Potter's wheel, That metaphor ! and feel Why time spins fast, why passive lies... | |
| 1892 - 666 pàgines
...last spoke, from his poem " Rabbi Ben Ezra": — "Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow fact. Fancies that broke through language and escaped ;...was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. " So take and use thy work : Amend what flaws may lurk, What strain o' the stuff, what warpings past... | |
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