 | Emma Sheppard - 1809 - 104 Seiten
...day, and the eager anticipation of how many apples, &c., will fall to the share of each. To them " The world is wide, — these things are small ; They may be nothing; but they are all." I hear the loud ' whisper of joy run electrically through the line when they catch sight of me, even... | |
 | Richard Monckton Milnes (Baron Houghton) - 1838 - 238 Seiten
...seems to unlock Treasures unknown as yet, And the bitter-sweet first shock, One can never forget ; — The world is wide, these things are small, They may be nothing, but they are All. A sense of an earnest Will, To help the lowly-living, — And a terrible heart-thrill, If you' have... | |
 | 1865 - 838 Seiten
...have no power of giving ; An arm of aid to the weak, A friendly hand to the friendless. Kind words, eo short to speak. But whose echo is endless ; The world...things are small ; They may be nothing ; but they may be all. WE close with the usual offerings to the children. HEADING Tin: BIBLE. " Oh, grandpa, dear,... | |
 | Richard Monckton Milnes (Baron Houghton) - 1844 - 306 Seiten
...mystic things Appear in this phantom lair, That almost seem to me visitings Of Truth known elsewhere : The world is wide, — these things are small, They may be nothing, but they are All. A prayer in an hour of pain, Begun in an undertone, Then lowered, as it would fain Be heard by the... | |
 | Richard Monckton Milnes (Baron Houghton) - 1844 - 300 Seiten
...mystic things Appear in this phantom lair, That almost seem to me visitings Of Truth known elsewhere : The world is wide, — these things are small, They may be nothing, but they are All. A prayer in an hour of pain, Begun in an undertone, Then lowered, as it would fain Be heard by the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1845 - 614 Seiten
...is entered By a light that is lit above, Where the God of Nature has centred The beauty of Love. — The world is wide — these things are small — They may be nothing— but they are all. ' A look that is telling a tale, Which looks alone dare tell ; When a check is no longer pale, That... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1845 - 602 Seiten
...seems to unlock Treasures unknown as yet, And the bitter-sweet first shock, One can never forget; — The world is wide — these things are small — They may be nothing — but they are all.' — Poems of Many Years. We cannot, we must not, believe that the author of these fond lines would... | |
 | 1846 - 302 Seiten
...small ; They may be nothing, but they are all. A sense of an earnest will To help the lowly living, And a terrible heart.thrill If you have no power of...they are all. The moment we think we have learnt The love of the All-wise One, By which we could stand unburnt On the ridge of the seething sun ; — The... | |
 | 1846 - 308 Seiten
...is entered By a light that is lit above, Where the God of nature is centered, The beauty of love — The world is wide ; these things are small ; They may be nothing, but they are all. A sense of an earnest will To help the lowly living, And a terrible heart.thrill If you have no power... | |
 | 1895 - 666 Seiten
...measure of desert 1 She loved him like an eager child That knows not how it loves, or why. J. 0. M. The world is wide, These things are small, They may be nothing, But they are all. C. 8. M. The following lines appear as a quotation in the Memoriam column of the Standard of Dec. 20,... | |
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A sense of an earnest will To help the lowly living, And a terrible heart.thrill If you have no power of giving ; — An arm of aid to the weak ; — A friendly hand to the friendless ; — Kind words so short to speak, But whose echo is endless — The... 
