 Love seeketh not Itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives its ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair." So sung a little Clod of Clay Trodden with the cattle's feet, But a Pebble of the brook Warbled out these metres meet:...  Amours of great men - Page 74by Albert Dresden Vandam - 1878Full view - About this book
 | Martin H. Manser - 2001 - 524 pages
...have in you its center as well as the cause of its growing and bearing fruit. Hans urs von Baithasar Love seeketh not itself to please, / Nor for itself...its ease, / And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair. William Blake He who loves his fellow man is loving God the best he can. Alice Gary Only love can bring... | |
 | Kathleen Raine - 2002 - 472 pages
...Blake's poem follows the pattern closely, clod and pebble symbolizing Swedenborg's two kinds of love: "Love seeketh not Itself to please, Nor for itself...its ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair." So sang a little Clod of Clay Trodden with the cattle's feet, But a Pebble of the brook Warbled out... | |
 | Gregory Orr - 2002 - 250 pages
...selfless love, ends with a far more disquieting opinion of the same phenomenon: The Clod & the Pebble "Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care Hut for another gives its ease, And builds a heaven in hell's despair." So sung a little clod of clayTrodden... | |
 | Amorah, Ruthie O. Grant - 2003 - 308 pages
...path leading to your dreams. Careful: those lead astray rarely find their way back to the high road. "Love seeketh not Itself to please. Nor for itself...gives its ease. And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair. " -William Blake Beware of a Person Who iKr~*yf~<5'•*,. * /70f rejoice in your successes or accomplishments.... | |
 | William Blake - 2003 - 262 pages
...the rain does fall: Babe can never hunger there, Nor poverty the mind appall. The Clod & the Pebble Love seeketh not Itself to please, Nor for itself...for another gives its ease. And builds a Heaven in Hells despair. So sang a little Clod of Clay, Trodden with the cattles feet: But a Pebble of the brook,... | |
 | John C. Hampsey - 2004 - 236 pages
...olarity—selfishness versus selflessness, as well as with the moral ambiguity that results from such divided energies. "Love seeketh not Itself to please, "Nor for itself...its ease, "And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair." So sang a little Clod of Clay Trodden with the cattle's feet, But a Pebble of the brook Warbled out... | |
 | Gill Farrer-Halls - 2004 - 268 pages
...(1O49-1129), the Tibetan yogini who revealed the Chod or "cutting" practice for severing strong attachments. Love seeketh not itself to please Nor for itself hath...gives its ease And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair. William Blake BIRD AND LOTUS Detail of a painting of Four-armed Avalokiteshvara, showing a bird alighting... | |
 | Will Shetterly - 2004 - 268 pages
...and the Pebble." The music continued, a quick Caribbean beat with dueling guitars and synthesizers. Love seeketh not Itself to please, Nor for itself...gives its ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair. The female sang the Pebble's part: Love seeketh only Self to please, To bind another to Its delight,... | |
 | 2004 - 516 pages
...produces motion though being loved. — Aristotle All mankind love a lover. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself...gives its ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair. — William Blake No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark... | |
 | George Eliot - 2005 - 1416 pages
...then, that the Garths were poor, and 'lived in a small way'. However, they did not mind it. Chapter 25 O1 0P ! Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And... | |
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