 | Michael Bulson - 2005 - 238 pages
...it applies to all of us on this sixth Sunday of Easter. The line says, "we are put on the earth for a little space that we may learn to bear the beams of love." We hear Christ say in the Gospel, "As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you" (John 15:9). The... | |
 | John R. Shook, Paulo Ghiraldelli - 2005 - 218 pages
...is eternal delight" and "Energy is the only life and is from the body" and "We are put on earth for a little space that we may learn to bear the beams of love." Poetic Imagination, spontaneous creative soul, is a real aspect of evolution not reducible to the machine-matrix... | |
 | Steve Clark, Masashi Suzuki - 2006 - 362 pages
...meaning, in the voice of the mother in Blake's 'The Little Black Boy' who tells her son: And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love . . . (E 9) Here blackness is proof of direct exposure to God: looking up to heaven is the ability... | |
 | Robert B. Silvers, Barbara Epstein - 2006 - 316 pages
...got a black eye for doing so. — October 2.7, 1983 DEREK WALCOTT ON ROBERT LOWELL A nd we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love. . . —Blake BIOGRAPHIES OF POETS are hard to believe. The moment they are published they become fiction,... | |
 | William Blake - 2007 - 392 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... | |
 | Jeremy Hall - 2007 - 198 pages
...beginning of time." William Blake has a famous and lovely line about God's love: We are put on this earth a little space That we may learn to bear the beams of love. And Therese of Lisieux, in her autobiography concluded: "Love, in fact, is the vocation that includes all... | |
 | William Sloane Coffin - 2008 - 630 pages
...abiding. Yet oo pray to him as to one who can make our souls steady, as well as ardent. And we are put on earth a little space That we may learn to bear the beams of love. Like Kierkegaard's maid, we live in a little space and but for a little space. Yet, like St. Teresa... | |
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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. 
