 And human love needs human meriting: How hast thou merited — Of all man's clotted clay the dingiest clot? Alack, thou knowest not How little worthy of any love thou art ! Whom wilt thou find to love ignoble thee, Save Me, save only Me? All which I took...  Catholic World - Page 6271908Full view - About this book
 | 1920 - 854 pages
...Truth. What Francis Thompson discovers at the end of The Hound of Heaven Master Petersen also knows : ' All which thy child's mistake Fancies as lost, I have...stored for thee at home : Rise, clasp My hand, and come ! ' The way of negativity is a way through criticism to construction. By such a road visions are transformed... | |
 | Francis Thompson - Poetry - 1893 - 140 pages
...thy earth so marred, Shattered in shard on shard ? Lo, all things fly thee, for thou fliest Me ! " Strange, piteous, futile thing ! Wherefore should...for thee at home : Rise, clasp My hand, and come." Halts by me that footfall : Is my gloom, after all, Shade of His hand, outstretched caressingly ? "... | |
 | Francis Thompson - Poetry - 1893 - 98 pages
...fliest Me! II Strange, piteous, futile thing ! Wherefore should any set thee love apart ? How hast them merited— Of all man's clotted clay the dingiest...for thee at home: Rise, clasp My hand, and come." Halts by me that footfall: Is my gloom, after all, Shade of His hand, outstretched caressingly ? "... | |
 | Elizabeth Waterhouse - Death in literature - 1902 - 526 pages
...kneel and pray, And it sufficed that I was found of Thee. EDWARD DOWDEN THE VOICE OF THE DIVINE PURSUER "ALL which I took from thee I did but take, .**. Not...stored for thee at home. Rise, clasp My hand and come." Halts by me that footfall : Is my gloom, after all, Shade of His hand outstretched caressingly ? "... | |
 | Frank Karslake - Autographs - 1918 - 700 pages
...place apart : and in these days of war it has surely a special appeal in its magnificent close :— " All which I took from thee I did but take, Not for...for thee at home : Rise, clasp My hand, and come." Less well-known, but little less beautiful, are the verses which ought to find a place in every anthology... | |
 | Henry Charles Beeching - Religious poetry, English - 1903 - 454 pages
...man's clotted clay the dingiest clot ? Alack, thou knowest not How little worthy of any love thou an ! Whom wilt thou find to love ignoble thee, Save Me,...for thee at home : Rise, clasp My hand, and come." Halts by me that footfall : Is my gloom, after all, Shade of his hand, outstretched caressingly ? "... | |
 | Henry Charles Beeching - Religious poetry, English - 1903 - 460 pages
...Not for thy harms, But just that thou might'st seek it in My arms. All which thy child's mistake 2A Fancies as lost, I have stored for thee at home : Rise, clasp My hand, and come." Halts by me that footfall : Is my gloom, after all, Shade of his hand, outstretched caressingly ? "... | |
 | Charles Wesley Emerson - Elocution - 1905 - 142 pages
...thing! Wherefore should .any set thee love apart? Seeing none but I makes much of naught " ( He said), Of all man's clotted clay the dingiest clot? Alack,...for thee at home : Rise, clasp My hand, and come." x. Halts by me that footfall : Is my gloom, after all, Shade of His hand, outstretched caressingly?... | |
 | 1905 - 1224 pages
...then — submission ! Love has conquered, and "like a bursting sea" sounds the voice of the pursuer : All which I took from thee I did but take, Not for...for thee at home ; Rise, clasp my hand, and come. The "Dread of Height" is another of Mr. Thompson's most characteristic poems. It is the cry of a soul... | |
 | Death in literature - 1905 - 318 pages
...pray, And it sufficed that I was found of Thee. EDWARD DOWDEN THE VOICE OF THE DIVINE PURSUER " A LL which I took from thee I did but take, •**• Not...stored for thee at home. Rise, clasp My hand and come." Halts by me that footfall : Is my gloom, after all, Shade of His hand outstretched caressingly ? "Ah,... | |
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