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" Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped; All I could never be, All, men ignored in me, This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. "
Selections from [his] Poetical Works - Page 341
by Robert Browning - 1874
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The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine

Arminianism - 1881 - 1046 pages
...weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount : ' Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped ;...ignored in me, This, I was worth to God, Whose wheel the pitoher shaped.' Again, the sense of unrealized desire is an index of character which we may regard...
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The Living Age, Volume 154

1882 - 844 pages
...to restore them one day perfected and completed; a God who looks not to results, but to effort : — All I could never be All men ignored in me, This,...was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. (" Rabbi ben Ezra.") This intense faith would in itself afford ample consolation under the sting of...
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Dramatis Personœ

Robert Browning - 1864 - 298 pages
...not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount : 25. Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped; All...was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. 26. Ay, note that Potter's wheel, That metaphor ! and feel Why time spins fast, why passive lies our...
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Dramatis Personae

Robert Browning - 1864 - 268 pages
...not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount: 25. Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped; All...was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. 26. Ay, note that Potter's wheel, That metaphor! and feel Why time spins feat, why passive lies our...
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Dramatis personæ [poems]. Author's ed

Robert Browning - 1864 - 276 pages
...not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount : v 25. Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped; All...was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. 26. Ay, note that Potter's wheel, That metaphor ! and feel Why time spins fast, why passive lies our...
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Dramatis Personae

Robert Browning - 1864 - 270 pages
...not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount : 25. Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped ;...This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher 26. Ay, note that Potter's wheel, That metaphor ! and feel Why time spins fast, why passive lies our...
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Harvard Memorial Biographies ...

Thomas Wentworth Higginson - United States - 1866 - 504 pages
...straightway to its mind, could value in a trice : " Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped ;...was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped." JAMBS SAVAGE. Captain 2d Mass. Vols. (Infantry), May 24, 1861 ; Major, June 23, 1862; Lieutenant-Colonel,...
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Harvard Memorial Biographies, Volume 1

Thomas Wentworth Higginson - Biography & Autobiography - 1866 - 518 pages
...straightway to its mind, could value in a trice : " Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped ;...me, This I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher JAMES SAVAGE. Captain 2d Mass. Vols. (Infantry), May 24, 1861 ; Major, June 23, 1862; Lieutenarit-Colonel,...
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Songs of the Cross and crown

Songs - 1874 - 252 pages
...weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount : Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped ;...was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. Ay, note that Potter's wheel, That metaphor ! and feel Why time spins fast, why passive lies our clay,...
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Good Words

1875 - 930 pages
...weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount : " Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language, and escaped;...was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped." For our practical guidance, our Lord's doctrine concerning the Divine rewards suggests to us some lessons...
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