 My faultless breast the furnace is, the fuel wounding thorns; Love is the fire, and sighs the smoke, the ashes shame and scorns; The fuel justice layeth on, and mercy blows the coals; The metal in this furnace wrought are men's defiled souls: For which,...  The Poetical Works of the Rev. Robert Southwell - Page 98by Saint Robert Southwell - 1856 - 168 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert L. Wade - 1846 - 448 pages
...his flames, Which with his tears were bred: Alas, (quoth he,) but newly born, In fiery heats 1 fry, Yet none approach to warm their hearts, Or feel my...Love is the fire, and sighs the smoke. The ashes, shames and scorns ; The fuel Justice layeth on, And Mercy blows the coals, The metal in this Inrnaee... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 pages
...flames, Which with his tears were bred. " Alas !" quoth he, " but newly born, In fiery heats I fry, Yet none approach to warm their hearts Or feel my...Love is the fire, and sighs the smoke, The ashes, shames and scorns ; The fuel justice layeth on, And mercy blows the coals The metal in this furnace... | |
 | 1874 - 564 pages
...Zech. xiii.9. gold is tried." My faultless breast the furnace is, the fuel wounding thorns ; Eobert Love is the fire, and sighs the smoke, the ashes shame and scorns ; Southwell, The fuel Justice layeth on, and Mercy blows the coals, ^f urning The metal in this furnace... | |
 | Book - 1872 - 326 pages
...flames, Which with his tears were bred. " Alas ! " quoth he, " but newly born, In fiery heats I fry, Yet none approach to warm their hearts, Or feel my...fuel wounding thorns ; Love is the fire, and sighs tire smoke ; The ashes, shames and scorns. The fuel justice layeth on, And mercy blows the coals, The... | |
 | 1873 - 888 pages
...flames which with his tears were fed ; Alas ! quoth he, but newly born, in fiery heals I frye, Vet none approach to warm their hearts or feel my fire...furnace is, the fuel wounding thorns. Love is the fite, and sighs the smoke, the ashes shame and scornes ; * Sfccimcns of the Early Englitft Peels, first... | |
 | 1874 - 576 pages
...his flames which with his tears were fed ; Alas ! quoth he, but newly born, in fiery heats I frye, Yet none approach to warm their hearts or feel my...the fire, and sighs the smoke, the ashes shame and scornes ; The fuel Justice layeth on, and Mercy blows the coals, The metals in this furnace wrought... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1874 - 584 pages
...breast the furnace Is; The fuel wounding thorns; Love is the fire, and sighs the smoke, The ashes shames and scorns. The fuel justice layeth on, And mercy...The metal in this furnace wrought Are men's defiled souls — For which, as now on fire I am, To work them to their good, So will I melt into a bath, To... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1874 - 600 pages
...the furnace Is; The fuel wounding thorns ; Love is the fire, and sighs the smoke, The ashes shames and scorns. The fuel justice layeth on, And mercy...coals ; The metal in this furnace wrought Are men's deuied souls — For which, as now on fire I am, To work them to their good, So will I melt into a... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 588 pages
...lit«, but newly boni, In fiery heals I fry. Tet none approach to warm their hearts Or feel the tire, but I. My faultless breast the furnace Is ; The fuel...thorns; Love is the fire, and sighs the smoke, The ashes shames and scorns. The fuel justice layeth on, And mercy blows the coals; The metal in this furnace... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1875 - 558 pages
...Ib. ; which was given him back.4 That Drayton was chalenged for intitling one book Mortimeriados.5 My faultless breast the furnace is, The fuel wounding...: Love is the fire, and sighs the smoke, The ashes shames and scomes ; The fuel justice layeth on, And mercy blows the coals, The metal in this furnace... | |
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