 | American poetry - 1915 - 488 pages
...His flames, Which with His tears were bred : "Alas!" quoth He, "but newly born In fiery heats I fry, Yet none approach to warm their hearts Or feel my...Love is the fire, and sighs the smoke; The ashes, shames and scorns; The fuel Justice layeth on, And Mercy blows the coals, The metal in this furnace... | |
 | William Sharp - English literature - 1912 - 390 pages
...opened her eyes, glanced at her daughter, and with murmuring lips reclosed her eyes. It was the line : Love is the fire, and sighs the smoke, the ashes shame and scorn. During that visit, again, I had cause to note how scrupulous, if at the same time reticent,... | |
 | Orton Lowe - Children - 1914 - 374 pages
...flames which with his tears were fed : — "Alas !" quoth He, "but newly born, in fiery heats I fry, Yet none approach to warm their hearts or feel my...coals, The metal in this furnace wrought are men's denied souls, For which, as now on fire I am, to work them to their good, So will I melt into a bath... | |
 | Richard Crashaw - Poetry, religious - 1914 - 136 pages
...Alas ! ' quoth he, ' but newly born In fiery heats I fry, Yet none approach to warm their hearts 15 Or feel my fire but I ! ' My faultless breast the...fire and sighs the smoke ; The ashes shame and scorns ; 20 The fuel Justice layeth on, And Mercy blows the coals ; The metal in this furnace wrought Are... | |
 | Orton Lowe - Children - 1914 - 344 pages
...flames which with his tears were fed: — "Alas !" quoth He, "but newly born, in fiery heats I fry, Yet none approach to warm their hearts or feel my...faultless breast the furnace is, the fuel wounding thorns; The fuel Justice layeth on, and Mercy blows the coals, The metal in this furnace wrought are men's... | |
 | Edith Rickert - Carols - 1914 - 378 pages
...his flames which with his tears were fed. " Alas ! " quoth he, " but newly born in fiery heats I fry, Yet none approach to warm their hearts or feel my fire but I ! My faultless heart the furnace is, the fuel wounding thorns ; Love is the fire and sighs the smoke, the ashes shame... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 964 pages
...quench his flames which with his tears were fed; "Alas!" quoth he, "but newly born in fiery heats I fry, es and pretended imitations of them; 10 The fuel Justice layeth on, and Mercy blows the coals; The metal in this furnace wrought are men's... | |
 | English poetry - 1916 - 792 pages
...His flames with what 2 His tears were fed ; "Alas !" quoth He, "but newly born, in fiery heats I fry, dge myself to have been a happy man; and the elements...interior of a scholar's library, — in a cottage a ; 10 The fuel Justice layeth on, and Mercy blows the coals ; The metal in this furnace wrought are... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1916 - 828 pages
...His flames with what 2 His tears were fed; "Alas !" quoth He, "but newly born, in fiery heats I fry, difies the images, thoughts, 10 The fuel Justice layeth on, and Mercy blows the coals; The metal in this furnace wrought arc men's... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 944 pages
...fed; "Alas!" quoth he, "but newly born ir fiery heats I fry, Yet none approach to warm their hearts 01 feel my fire but I ! My faultless breast the furnace...and sighs the smoke, the ashes, shame and scorns; ic The fuel Justice layeth on, and Mercy blows the coals; The metal in this furnace wrought are men's... | |
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My faultless breast the furnace is ; The fuel, wounding thorns ; Love is the fire, and sighs the smoke ; The ashes... 
