 More pure and fair than even its outward type. If one did thus, was it from vanity ? Or thoughtlessness, or worse ? Nay, let it pass. The beautiful are never desolate ; But some one alway loves them — God or man. If man abandons, God himself takes them.  Festus: A Poem - Page 50by Philip James Bailey - 1845 - 416 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1839 - 764 pages
...the first And snow-like fall of feeling which o'erspreads The bosom of the youthful maiden's mind. More pure and fair than even its outward type. If...pass. The beautiful are never desolate; But some one always loves them : God or man. If man abandons God himself takes them. And thus it was. She whom I... | |
 | Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - Transcendentalism - 1842 - 642 pages
...sun in spring; And I, like earlh, all budding out with love. The beautiful are never desolate; For some one alway loves them; God or man. If man abandons,...The lightning loathes its cloud ; the soul its clay. Pale as pale violets ; that eye, where mind Can I forget that hand I took in mine, And matter mel alike... | |
 | Periodicals - 1845 - 732 pages
...like earth, all budding out with love. The beautiful are never desolate ; 56 57 For some one always loves them — God or man. If man abandons, God Himself...them. And thus it was. She whom I once loved died. A LETTER. WHEN he hath had A letter from his lady dear, he bless'd The paper that her hand had travel'd... | |
 | 1847 - 556 pages
...the first And snow-like fall of feeling which overspreads The bosom of the youthful maiden's mind, More pure and fair than even its outward type, —...pass. The beautiful are never desolate ; But some one always loves them, — God or man : If man abandons, God himself takes them. And thus it was. She whom... | |
 | 1847 - 910 pages
...first, And snow-like fall of feeling which o'erspreads The bosom of the youthful maiden's mind, — More pure and fair than even its outward type, If...Or thoughtlessness, or worse ? Nay, let it pass." But " the morning peeps her blue eye on the east" — and Festus follows the departing Lucifer. The... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - Literary Collections - 1848 - 372 pages
...And I, like earth, all budding out with love. The beautiful are never desolate ; For some one always loves them — God or man. If man abandons, God himself...them. And thus it was. She whom I once loved died." A LETTER. " When he hath had A letter from his lady dear, he bless'd The paper that her hand had travel'd... | |
 | Philip James Bailey - 1852 - 584 pages
...the first, And snowlike fall of feeling which overspreads The bosom of the youthful maiden's mind, More pure and fair than even its outward type. If...are never desolate ; But some one alway loves them — Grod or man. If man abandons, Grod himself takes them. And thus it was. She whom I once loved died.... | |
 | William Cowper Prime - Country life - 1853 - 332 pages
...chicken, and a passage from a new book, which had been our last topic of conversation in the sleigh. " The beautiful are never desolate, But some one alway...or man. If man abandons, God himself takes them." There is poetry and truth mingled in the remark, although perhaps it may not be exactly truth, as the... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - Conduct of life - 1856 - 368 pages
...holdeth fruit and proof of deeper feeling Than the poor pen can utter or the eye discover — still The beautiful are never desolate ; But some one alway...or man ; If man abandons, God himself takes them." " My father's house," she said, "after his second marriage, was not endurable for us his first children.... | |
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