Under the Sabbath Lamp: Stories of Our Time for Old and Young

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Jewish Publication Society of America, 1919 - 259 страници
 

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Страница 131 - tis thy soul is poor; There towers the mountain of the Voice no less, Which whoso seeks shall find, but he who bends, Intent on manna still and mortal ends, Sees it not, neither hears its thundered lore. Slowly the Bible of the race is writ, And not on paper leaves nor leaves of stone ; Each age, each kindred, adds a verse to it, Texts of despair or hope, of joy or moan. While swings the sea, while mists the mountains shroud, While thunder's surges burst on cliffs of cloud, Still at the prophets...
Страница 205 - Ah me! for aught that ever I could read. Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth: But, either it was different in blood; Her.
Страница 206 - Set me as a seal upon thine heart, As a seal upon thine arm : For love is strong as death ; Jealousy is cruel as the grave : The coals thereof are coals of fire, Which hath a most vehement flame.
Страница 189 - I cannot hide that some have striven, Achieving calm, to whom was given The joy that mixes man with Heaven "Who, rowing hard against the stream, Saw distant gates of Eden gleam, And did not dream it was a dream...
Страница 49 - Come up, and feel what health there is In the frank Dawn's delighted eyes, As, bending with a pitying kiss, The night-shed tears of Earth she dries ! The Lord wants reapers: Oh, mount up Before night comes, and says,
Страница 23 - I cannot tell how the truth may be : I say the tale as 'twas said to me.
Страница 218 - The heart hath its own memory, like the mind, And in it are enshrined The precious keepsakes, into which is wrought The giver's loving thought. Only your love and your remembrance could Give life to this dead wood, And make these branches, leafless now so long, Blossom again in song.
Страница 227 - Hear, O heaven, and give ear, O earth : for the Lord hath spoken ; I have begotten and brought up children, but they have rejected me. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib : but Israel hath not known me, and my people hath not perceived me.
Страница 20 - Beam on life's sea where mists and tempests reign; And may its radiance guide our course aright, And fling its silvery track across the main. Shine on the Future — lead these hearts of ours Far beyond home and clime and native strand. Light up the...
Страница 109 - And in thy right hand lead with thee The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty; And if I give thee honour due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her and live with thee, In unreproved pleasures free...

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