 | Oswald Doughty - 1922 - 488 pages
...And Blake symbolised these two types of love in the song of The Clod and the Pebble : " Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care,...its ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair." That is the song of the clod of clay trodden under the feet of the cattle. But the pebble, hard and... | |
 | Walter Raleigh - 1923 - 348 pages
...gives a voice to each. The clod of clay, trodden beneath the cattle's feet, sings thus : Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care,...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... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 pages
...songs Every child may joy to hear. 16 20 FROM SONGS OF EXPERIENCE THE CLOD AND THE PEBBLE "Love seeketh s roar. " And thy loved consort on the dangerous tide Of life long since sung a little clod of clay, Trodden with the cattle's feet, But a pebble of the brook Warbled out these... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1926 - 744 pages
...Songs of Experience, 1794 39 6 The Clod and the Tebble ' TOVE seeketh not Itself to please, J— / 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... | |
 | Max Plowman - 1927 - 226 pages
...gaze that did not flinch. He looked on human love with the same eyes and there he saw Love seeketh not Itself to please Nor for itself hath any care,...gives its ease And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair, and then he also saw that it is equally true Love seeketh only Self to please To bind another to Its... | |
 | Mark Van Doren - 1928 - 1390 pages
...clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every child may joy to hear. THE CLOD AND THE PEBBLE "Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care,...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... | |
 | Robert Eugen Zachrisson - 1928 - 188 pages
...engelska 1 700-talsmystikern, även han till en början förbisedd av sin samtid, säger: Love seeketh not Itself to please, Nor for Itself hath any care,...gives its ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair. Konstnärligt döv måste den vara, som ej har öra för dessa undertoner i Hardys diktning. Vi ha... | |
 | Robert Eugen Zachrisson - 1928 - 188 pages
...engelska i y00-talsmystikern, även han till en början förbisedd av sin samtid, säger: Love seeketh not Itself to please, Nor for Itself hath any care,...gives its ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair. Konstnärligt döv måste den vara, som ej har öra för dessa undertoner i Hardys diktning. Vi ha... | |
 | Paul Ferrini - 1992 - 258 pages
...and mild" becomes the tiger with his "fearful symmetry," and the Clod of Clay who says: love seeketh not Itself to please nor for itself hath any care;...gives its ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair. becomes the Pebble of the Brook who proclaims: love seeketh only Self to please, to bind another to... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...misery." ErPo; FaBoEE; GBL; NoP; OAEL-2 51 POETRY QUOTATIONS The Clod and the Pebble 57 "Love seeketh si`ֺ.Hֺ. 0ֺ. 58 "Love seeketh only Self to please. To bind another to Its delight. Joys in another's loss of ease,... | |
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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:... 
