 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:...  Tinsley's Magazine - Page 1781879Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Gilchrist, Anne Burrows Gilchrist - Artists - 1863 - 366 pages
...bones around ! Selfish, vain, Eternal bane, That free love with bondage bound.' THE CLOD AND THE PEBBLE LOVE seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself...gives 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... | |
 | William Blake - 1866 - 132 pages
...spring and your day are wasted in play And your winter and night in disguise. THE CLOD AND THE PEBBLE. LOVE seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself...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... | |
 | George Eliot - 1871 - 392 pages
...the Garths were poor, and "lived in a small way." However, they did not mind it. 48 CHAPTER XXV. ' Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself...gives its ease, And builds a heaven in hell's despair. Love seeketh only self to please. To bind another to its delight. Joys in another's loss of ea.se,... | |
 | Pye Henry Chavasse - Child rearing - 1872 - 298 pages
...alone is hopeful; she hopes on and hopes ever. She alone " builds a heaven in hell's despair : — " Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself...its ease, And builds a heaven in hell's despair." , W. Blake. 168. Luxury. — Do not bring your child, however rich he might be, up to luxury; make... | |
 | George Eliot - 1872 - 400 pages
...that the Garths were poor, and " lived in a small way." However, they did not mind it. CHAPTER XXV. ' Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself...gives its ease, And builds a heaven in hell's despair. Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And... | |
 | 1872 - 332 pages
...fruitful breath With the spirit of her God ! — [Golden ASŤ. THE CLOD AJID THE PEBBLE. — Love secketh not Itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care...gives 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... | |
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1873 - 308 pages
...that the Garths were poor, and " lived in a small way." However, they did not mind it. CHAPTER XXV. " Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself...gives its ease. And builds a heaven in hell's despair. * t • * * " Love eeeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss... | |
 | William Blake - 1874 - 194 pages
...spring and your day are wasted in play And your winter and night in disguise. THE CLOD AND THE PEBBLE. LOVE seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself...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... | |
 | Annie Keary - 1879 - 384 pages
...him from rushing into the post-office and demanding to have it returned. CHAPTER XIII. " EETREAT." " 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 catties' feet, Bnt a pebble of the brook Warbled out... | |
 | Choice poems - English poetry - 1879 - 206 pages
...pretty comfortable ; and in 1847 the Crown bestowed a pension upon him. THE CLOD AND THE PEBBLE. ' LOVE seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself...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... | |
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