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... never been proud or complacent with respect to his wealth . He has never acted deceit- fully . He has been generous to his enemies and has never turned away a stranger from his door . He concludes : Oh that I had one to hear me ! Behold ...
... never been proud or complacent with respect to his wealth . He has never acted deceit- fully . He has been generous to his enemies and has never turned away a stranger from his door . He concludes : Oh that I had one to hear me ! Behold ...
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... never saw a moor ; I never saw the sea . Yet I know how heather looks And what a billow be . I never spoke with God , Nor visited in Heaven . Yet certain am I of the spot As if the checks were given . It is not however the poems in ...
... never saw a moor ; I never saw the sea . Yet I know how heather looks And what a billow be . I never spoke with God , Nor visited in Heaven . Yet certain am I of the spot As if the checks were given . It is not however the poems in ...
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... never known . Blosoms of grief and charity Bloom in these darkened fields alone . What had Eden ever to say Of hope and faith and pity and love Until was buried all its day And memory found its treasure trove ? Strange blessings never ...
... never known . Blosoms of grief and charity Bloom in these darkened fields alone . What had Eden ever to say Of hope and faith and pity and love Until was buried all its day And memory found its treasure trove ? Strange blessings never ...
Contents
God Defended | 26 |
God and Nature | 50 |
Poetic Attitudes to God from the Psalms to Dante | 69 |
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Adam Adam's antinomian argument argument from design Arnold beauty belief Book of Job Burns Burns's C.S. Lewis called Calvinist Canto century Christ Christian creed Dante Dante's darkness death deism divine doctrine earth Edwin Muir Eliphaz English eternal evil experience expression faith Fall feeling glory God's goes grace hast Heaven Hebrew Hopkins Hugh MacDiarmid human imagery images imagination innocent James Thomson Job's justice kind language lecture literature Lord MacDiarmid man's meaning Melencolia Milton mind mood moral moving mystery Nature never night orthodox Paradise Lost paradox poem poet poet's poetic poetry praise Psalm reader reality religion religious Sangschaw Satan Scotland Scottish seems sense sing speech stanza Stevens suffering suggest symbolic tells Tennyson thee theodicy theology things Thomson thou thought tion tradition truth universe Victorian poet vision visionary voice W.B. Yeats Wallace Stevens Whitman wicked words