A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations: Consisting of Choice Passages from the Sacred Poetry of All Ages and Countries, Classified and Arranged, for Facility of Reference, Under Subject Headings; Illustrated by Striking Passages from Scripture, and Forming Altogether a Complete Book of Devotional Poetry.
Religion
A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations: Consisting of Choice Passages from the Sacred Poetry of All Ages and Countries, Classified and Arranged, for Facility of Reference, Under Subject Headings; Illustrated by Striking Passages from Scripture, and Forming Altogether a Complete Book of Devotional Poetry.
Quotations; Religious poetry
Of that same time when no more change shall be,
But stedfastly rest all things, firmly stayed
Upon the pillars of _eternity_,
That is contraire to mutability;
For all that moveth doth in change delight;
But thenceforth all shall rest _eternally_,
With Him that is the God of Sabaoth hight.
_Spenser._
Him, blessed Shepherd,
His flocks shall follow through the maze of life,
And shades that tend to day spring from on high;
And as the radiant roses, after fading,
In fuller foliage, and more fragrant breath,
Revive in smiling spring, so shall it be
With those that love Him: for sweet is their savour,
And all _eternity_ shall be their spring.
_Smart._
Man, (mortal creature,) fram’d to feel decays,
Thine unresisted power at pleasure sways,
Thou say’st return, and parting souls obey,
Thou say’st return, and bodies fall to-day.
For what’s a thousand fleeting years with Thee?
Or Time compared with long _eternity_?
Whose wings expanding infinitely vast,
O’erstretched its utmost ends of first and last.
_Parnell._
We strive with earthly imagings,
To reach and understand
The wondrous and the fearful things
Of an _eternal_ land.
But soon the doubt, the toil, the strife
Of earth shall all be done,
And knowledge of our endless life
Be in a moment won.
_Otway Curry._
Why shrinks the soul
Back on herself, and startles at destruction?
’Tis the Divinity that stirs within us;
’Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter,
And intimates _eternity_ to man.
_Addison._
The _Eternal_ Life, beyond the sky,
Wealth cannot purchase, nor the high
And proud estate;
The soul in dalliance laid,--the spirit
Corrupt with sin,--shall not inherit
A joy so great.
_Longfellow, from the Spanish._
Our better nature pineth--let it be!
Thou human soul--earth is no home for thee;
Thy starry rest is in _eternity_.
_Miss Landon._
He of the lion-voice, the rainbow-crowned,
Shall stand upon the mountains and the sea,
And swear by earth, by Heaven’s throne, and Him
Who sitteth on the throne, there shall be Time
No more, no more! Then veiled _Eternity_
Shall straight unveil her awful countenance
Unto the reeling world, and take the place
Of seasons, years and ages. Aye and aye
Shall be the time of day!
_Miss Barrett._
Time! whither dost thou flee?
--I travel to _eternity_,
_Eternity!_ what art thou?--say!
--Time past--time present--time to come--to-day.
_J. Montgomery._
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