 Let them touch each other's hands, in a fresh wreathing Of their tender human youth; Let them feel that this cold metallic motion Is not all the life God fashions or reveals; Let them prove their living souls against the notion That they live in you,...  Poetical Works - Page 152by Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1871Full view - About this book
 | 1862 - 120 pages
...or under you, 0 wheels ! Still, all day, the Iron wheels go onward, As if fate in each were stark ! And the children's souls which GOD is calling sunward, Spin on blindly in the dark.' Cry of tlit Children, 7>y ELIZABETH B. BROWSING. ' IP life exist simply as a final opportunity to labor... | |
 | Methodist Episcopal Church - 1857 - 830 pages
...under you, 0 wheels ! Still all day the iron wheels go onward, As if fate in each were stark ; And tho children's souls, which God is calling sunward, Spin on blindly in the dark 1" But, however it may have been with her childhood, she will not, thank Heaven ! spin on blindly in... | |
 | Scotland - 1843 - 1380 pages
...this cold metallic motion Is not all the life God giveth them to use ; Let them prove their inward souls against the notion That they live in you, or...wheels! Still, all day, the iron wheels go onward, As if Fate in each were stark I And the children's souls, which God is calling sunward, Spin on blindly... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1844 - 290 pages
...this cold metallic motion Is not all the life God fashions or reveals — Let them prove their inward souls against the notion That they live in you, or...wheels ! — Still, all day, the iron wheels go onward, As if Fate in each were stark ; And the children's souls, which God is calling sunward, Spin on blindly... | |
 | University magazine - 1845 - 772 pages
...this cold metallic motion I- not all the life God fashions or reveals — Let them prove their inward souls against the notion That they live in you, or...wheels !— Still, all day, the iron wheels go onward, As if Fato in each were stark ; And the children's souls, which God is calling sunward, Spin on blindly... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...this cold metallic motion Is not all the life God giveth them to feel ; Let them prove their inward souls against the notion That they live in you, or under you, 0 wheels ! Still, all day, the iron wheels go onward, As if fate in each were stark ! [ward, And the... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...this cold metallic motion Is not all the life God giveth them to feel ; Let them prove theirinward souls against the notion That they live in you, or...wheels ! Still, all day, the iron wheels go onward, As if fate in each were stark ! [ward, And the children's souls, which God is calling sunSpin on blindly... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 308 pages
...this cold metallic motion, Is not all the life God giveth them to feel ; Let them prove their inward souls against the notion That they live in you, or under you, O wheel ! Still, all day, the iron wheels go onward, As if fate in each were stark ! And the children's... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Children's poetry, English - 1850 - 596 pages
...this cold metallic motion Is not all the life God fashions or reveals — Let them prove their inward souls against the notion That they live in you, or...God is calling sunward, Spin on blindly in the dark. IX. Now, tell the poor young children, O my brothers, To look up to Him and pray — So the blessed... | |
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