 | Max Plowman - 1927 - 226 pages
...work, one could hardly do better than quote the sentence from "The Little Black Boy/' And we are put on earth a little space That we may learn to bear the beams of love. It contains the idea that man is an eternal spirit definitely put upon this earth. It suggests that... | |
 | Jacomina Korteling - 1928 - 196 pages
...\ / : in God's radiant light of love, which in our weakness we could not yet bear. "And we are put on earth a little space. That we may learn to bear...love; And these black bodies, and this sunburnt face Is but a cloud, and like a shady grove. For when our souls have learned the heat to bear. The cloud... | |
 | 1908 - 434 pages
...flowers and trees and beasts and men receive Comfort in morning, joy in the noonday. And we are put on earth a little space That we may learn to bear...sunburnt face Are but a cloud, and like a shady grove. One other instance : Twas on a holy Thursday, their innocent faces clean, The children walking two... | |
 | David Richo - 1991 - 148 pages
...bodies. We find out why it has survived the ages: it shows love and helps us receive it. "We are put on earth a little space, that we may learn to bear the beams of love," says William Blake. Then we know that music is what love sounds like, and art, drama, and dance are... | |
 | Joseph A. Payne - 1992 - 178 pages
...flowers and trees and beasts and men receive Comfort in morning, joy in the noonday. And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love . . .1 (Italics mine) That lovely phrase has haunted me ever since I first heard it. For sure, relative... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white; 98 "And we are put Sky, And spangled Heav'ns, a Shining Frame, Their great Original pro 99 When I from black and he from white cloud free, And round the tent of Godlike lambs we joy, I'll... | |
 | William Blake - 1993 - 206 pages
...flowers and tress and beasts and men recieve Comfort in morning, joy in the noonday. And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear...love; And these black bodies and this sunburnt face Is but a cloud, and like a shady grove. For when our souls have learn'd the heat to bear, The cloud... | |
 | Don Richard Riso - 1993 - 148 pages
...Higher Power. 25 . I NOW AFFIRM that I cooperate with grace. T ne Enneagram and Healing And we are put on earth a little space, that we may learn to bear the beams of love. — William Blake Learning to "bear the beams of love" is one of the most difficult things we can do.... | |
 | E. Glenn Hinson - 1993 - 226 pages
...Catholic Eucharistic Spirituality Complemented by the Quaker Spirituality of Presence . . . and we are put on earth a little space that we may learn to bear the beams of love. — William Blake Joy and Beams of Love On August 31, 1991, my friend Douglas Steere celebrated his... | |
 | William Blake - 1995 - 136 pages
...flowers and trees and beasts and men recieve Comfort in morning joy in the noon day. And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear...love, And these black bodies and this sun-burnt face Is but a cloud, and like a shady grove. For when our souls have learn 'd the heat to bear The cloud... | |
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And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love ; And these black bodies and this sunburnt face Are but a cloud, and like a shady grove. 
