The descent into Hell, a poem [by J.A. Heraud]. |
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... flow from thee , as a Well : Thou spread'st the curtain of the Firmament , To make thy majesty endurable . Thou dwellest in the sky as in a tent ; The beams of Thy high chambers in the deep Are laid - and under Earth the Floods are bent ...
... flow from thee , as a Well : Thou spread'st the curtain of the Firmament , To make thy majesty endurable . Thou dwellest in the sky as in a tent ; The beams of Thy high chambers in the deep Are laid - and under Earth the Floods are bent ...
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... is now no longer heard ; But then unfallen , dwelling , free from strife , In Holiness and Beauty , .. types of those Whose spring is in the Eternal Essence rife . There is the fount of Wisdom ; thence it flows 70 EARTH .
... is now no longer heard ; But then unfallen , dwelling , free from strife , In Holiness and Beauty , .. types of those Whose spring is in the Eternal Essence rife . There is the fount of Wisdom ; thence it flows 70 EARTH .
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James Abraham Heraud. There is the fount of Wisdom ; thence it flows ; There the First Good and the First Fair abide , Unseen by Angels , in profound repose . Yet they in Heaven are manifested wide , And from Eternity together ... flows...
James Abraham Heraud. There is the fount of Wisdom ; thence it flows ; There the First Good and the First Fair abide , Unseen by Angels , in profound repose . Yet they in Heaven are manifested wide , And from Eternity together ... flows...
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... flow ; I am become a Seër , and am free To speak . Now listen . Know , that Mind it is Creates the light whereby the Eye doth see , And the night cometh , be the mind remiss Or absent ; nor is then its orb the Eye , More than its ruins ...
... flow ; I am become a Seër , and am free To speak . Now listen . Know , that Mind it is Creates the light whereby the Eye doth see , And the night cometh , be the mind remiss Or absent ; nor is then its orb the Eye , More than its ruins ...
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... flow . The Lord by Wisdom founded every hill , By Understanding He established heaven , Brake up the depths by Knowledge and by Skill : And o'er the Gate of Hell hath Wisdom graven The hidden Counsel of the Eternal Three- This legend ...
... flow . The Lord by Wisdom founded every hill , By Understanding He established heaven , Brake up the depths by Knowledge and by Skill : And o'er the Gate of Hell hath Wisdom graven The hidden Counsel of the Eternal Three- This legend ...
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Abyss adore ALBEMARLE STREET amidst Angels Anon art thou Beauty Behold beneath blessed blood breath brood Chaos Chariot Cherubim clouds Creatures Darkness Death decree deed Deicide Deity Descending DESCENT INTO HELL divine doth dream dwell E'en Earth Eternal EXORDIUM Faith Father Fear fire flesh floods gates gloom glorious glory God's grace hail hath heard heart Heaven Holiest holy Hosanna Hosts ISAIAH Jehovah Jerusalem Light live Lord Love majesty mercy Messiah Mind mountains mysteries Night o'er Paradise Peace perfect perish Power Prophet pure redeemed rejoice repose ROBERT SOUTHEY sacred Satan Sepulchre Seraph Seraphim shadow Sire slain soar Song Sorrow Soul spake Spirit stars sublime Temple TEMPLE BAR thee thine things Thou art thou hast thou wert Throne thunder Tophet Truth Universe unto Veil vision voice void watchet waters whence whereof wings Wisdom womb Word World wrath
Popular passages
Page 140 - For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy GOD. For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee.
Page 52 - Before I go whence I shall not return, Even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; A land of darkness, as darkness itself; And of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as darkness.
Page 178 - Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.
Page 178 - Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffic ; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee. All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.
Page 178 - By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
Page 12 - And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands ? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.
Page 178 - Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth ; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God ; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.