 | 1920 - 742 pages
...the havoc of war. Long ago, an obscure Welsh clergyman (quoted somewhere by " Q.") said : " You will never enjoy the world aright till the sea itself floweth...clothed with the heavens and crowned with the stars." He might have said : " You will never enjoy the world til! poetry gels a place in your heart, for poetry... | |
 | Bertram Dobell - English poetry - 1904 - 162 pages
...variance no more With the eternal Will, I see him, strife and effort o'er, His destiny fulfil." 1902 * "You never enjoy the world aright till the sea itself floweth in your reins, till you are clothed with the heavens crowned with the stars." — Thomas Traherne. A POET'S... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson - Christianity - 1906 - 280 pages
...for the secrets of God's wisdom, power, and love ; for, as Traherne puts it quaintly yet profoundly: "You never enjoy the world aright till the sea itself...yourself to be the sole heir of the whole world." There is, secondly, the larger thought which arises from our study of the government of God and our... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - Natural history - 1906 - 400 pages
...earth aright," wrote Thomas Traherne in his Divine Raptures, " until the sun itself floweth through your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens...yourself to be the sole heir of the whole world." It may be observed that we must be out and well away from the woods and have a wide horizon all around... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, Arthur Quiller-Couch - English literature - 1906 - 412 pages
...treasures of His bliss, Which run like rivers from, into, the main, And all it doth receive, return again." "You never enjoy the world aright till the sea itself...clothed with the heavens and crowned with the stars." " Thus, then, live I Till 'mid all the gloom By Heaven ! the bold sun Is with me in the room Shining,... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - Anthologies - 1906 - 352 pages
...ever worship the great God of this little god, my soule. HENRY MONTAGU, EARL OF MANCHESTER You will never enjoy the world aright till the sea itself floweth...clothed with the heavens and crowned with the stars. THOMAS TRAHERNE GOD created Man in His image — and Man made haste to return the compliment. HEINE... | |
 | Thomas Traherne - English poetry - 1906 - 298 pages
...might be certain even if none of his lyrical work had remained to prove it. The man who could say, " You never enjoy the world aright till the sea itself...are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars"—a sentence which contains the essence of everything that has been said by the poets who have... | |
 | Edward Thomas - Authors, English - 1909 - 322 pages
...and " we love we know not what." The spirit can fill the whole world and the stars be your jewels: " You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself...yourself to be the sole heir of the whole world." And our inheritance is more than the world, " because men are in it who are every one sole heirs as well... | |
 | Edward Thomas - Authors, English - 1909 - 310 pages
...spir1t can fill the whole world and the stars be your jewels : " You never enjoy the world ar1ght, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you...yourself to be the sole heir of the whole world." And our inheritance is more than the world, " because men are in it who are every one sole heirs as well... | |
 | Louise Collier Willcox - Conduct of life - 1909 - 324 pages
...our purposes. Doubtless he meant just what Traherne meant when he wrote in his meditations: "You will never enjoy the world aright till the sea itself floweth...clothed with the heavens and crowned with the stars. ' ' Such enjoyment as this it was that gave Whitman his strength, that left Blake, after a life of... | |
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You never enjoy the world aright, till the Sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars... 
