 | Robert Browning - 1856 - 386 pages
...gift. — Behold ! I could love if I durst ! But I sink the pretension as fearing a man may o 'ertake God's own speed in the one way of love : I abstain,...Nine-and-ninety flew ope at our touch, should the hundredth appall ? In the least things, have faith, yet distrust in the greatest of all ? Do I find love so full... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1863 - 360 pages
...gift. — Behold ! I could love if I durst ! But I sink the pretension as fearing a man may o 'ertake God's own speed in the one way of love : I abstain,...thus far and no farther? when doors great and small, In the least things, have faith, yet distrust in the greatest of all ? Do I find love so full in my... | |
 | Sidney H. Morse, Joseph B. Marvin - 1866 - 560 pages
...grass of the field as our lower wants, shall He not much more clothe our real and vital selves ? " What, my soul ! see thus far and no farther ? when doors great and small Nine and ninety flew ope at the touch, should the hundredth appall ? In the least things have faith,... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1876 - 360 pages
...gift. — Behold ! I could love if I durst ! But I sink the pretension as fearing a man may o 'ertake God's own speed in the one way of love : I abstain,...Nine-and-ninety flew ope at our touch, should the hun In the least things, have faith, yet distrust in the greatest of all ? Do 1 find love so full in... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1879 - 324 pages
...gift. — Behold, 1 could love if I durst ! " But I sink the pretension as fearing a man may o'ertake " God's own speed in the one way of love : I abstain for " — What, my soul ? see thus far and no farther ? when doors great and small, " Nine-and-ninety flew... | |
 | Philip Schaff, Arthur Gilman - 1880 - 1108 pages
...gift. — Behold, I could love if I durst ! But I sink the pretension as fearing a man may o'ertake thee, Who revere thy Son above, Who thy Sacred Spirit...By some soft touch invisible Around his path are appall ? In the least things have faith, yet distrust in the greatest of all ? Do I find love so full... | |
 | Frances E. Arnold FORSTER - 1882 - 590 pages
...they have learnt so hard a lesson. CHAPTER XIV. THE LAND OF THE RISING SUN, OR THE ISLANDS OF JAPAN. " What, my soul? see thus far and no farther? when doors, great and small, Nine and ninety flew ope at our touch, should the hundredth appal? In the least things have faith,... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1883 - 308 pages
...in one gift. — Behold ! I could love if I durst ! But I sink the pretension as fearing a man may God's own speed in the one way of love : I abstain,...Nine-and-ninety flew ope at our touch, should the hundredth appall ? In the least things, have faith, yet distrust in the i greatest of all ? Do I find love so... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1884 - 346 pages
...gift. — Behold, I could love if I durst! "But I sink the pretension as fearing a man may o'ertake "God's own speed in the one way of love: I abstain...faith, yet distrust in the greatest of all? "Do I rind love so full in my nature, God's ultimate gift, "That I doubt his own love can compete with it?... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1884 - 308 pages
...gift. — Behold, I could love if I durst ! " But I sink the pretension as fearing a man may o'ertake " God's own speed in the one way of love : I abstain...least things have faith, yet distrust in the greatest " Do I find love so full in my nature, God's ultimate gift, " That I doubt his own love can compete... | |
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There's a faculty pleasant to exercise, hard to hoodwink, I am fain to keep still in abeyance, (I laugh as I think) Lest, insisting to claim and parade in it, wot ye, I worst E'en the Giver in one gift — Behold, I could love if I durst! 
