 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...recieve Comfort in moming joy in the noon day. And we are put on earth a little space. That we may leam to bear the beams of love. And these black bodies and this sun-bumt face Is but a cloud, and like a shady grove. For when our souls have learu 'd the heat to... | |
 | Sara Jeannette Duncan - 1996 - 352 pages
...southern wild, And I am black, but O, my soul is white!" And you, sir, will well remember that "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." Is it not beautifully said?' The Chief Commissioner was too well accustomed to Eastern emotion to be... | |
 | William Blake - 1998 - 340 pages
...flowers and trees and beasts and men receive 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 learned the heat to bear The cloud... | |
 | Carol Ochs, Kerry M. Olitzky, Joshua Saltzman - 1997 - 180 pages
...that can motivate us for a lifetime is a deepening love of God. William Blake wrote: And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love.2 The span of human life feels very short when we recognize how much we have to learn. First we... | |
 | Nicholas M. Williams - 1998 - 280 pages
...And flowers and trees and beasts and men receive Comfort in morning joy in 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 will... | |
 | Jackie DiSalvo, G. A. Rosso, Christopher Z. Hobson - 1998 - 480 pages
...child receives the light of God with more power and strength than does the white child: 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. (12-16) In April of 1789 the intensity of Blake's exposure... | |
 | Earl Shorris - 2000 - 292 pages
...flowers and trees and beasts and men receive 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 learned the heat to bear. The cloud... | |
 | Basil De Selincourt - 2000 - 396 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...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... | |
 | Carmela Ciuraru - 2001 - 276 pages
...flowers and trees and beasts and men receive 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... | |
 | Kallistos (Bishop of Diokleia) - 2000 - 254 pages
...well aware. Blake has well described our human condition in his Songs of Innocence: And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love.21 Time is thus an all-important dimension of our created personhood, the setting that makes it... | |
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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. 
