 Thus artists melt the sullen ore of lead, With heaping coals of fire upon its head ; In the kind warmth the metal learns to glow, And, loose from dross, the silver runs below.  The english anthology. - Page 2531793Full view - About this book
 | Charles Mackay - English poetry - 1896 - 676 pages
...views the bowl, And feds compassion touch his grateful ton! Tlraj artists melt the sullen ore of lead, With heaping coals of fire upon Its head ; In the kind warmth the metal Icams to glow, And loose from dross, the silver runs below. " Long had onr pious friend In virtue trod,... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1897 - 666 pages
...views the bowl, And feels compassion touch his grateful soul. Thus artists melt the sullen ore of lead, With heaping coals of fire upon its head ; In the kind warmth the metal learns to glow, And loose from dross, the silver runs below. " Long had our pious friend in virtue trod, But now the child... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 592 pages
...views the bowl, And feels compassion touch his grateful soul. Thus artists melt the sullen ore of lead With heaping coals of fire upon its head ; In the kind warmth the metal learns to glow, And, loose from dross, the silver runs below. " Long had our pious friend in virtue trod ; But now the child... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - Literature - 1898 - 578 pages
...of fire upon his head ; In the kind warmth the metal learns to glow, And loose from dross the silver runs below. "Long had our pious friend in virtue trod, But now the child half weaned his heart from God (Child of his age) ; for him he lived in pain, And measured back his steps... | |
 | Frederick Saunders, Minnie K. Davis - American poetry - 1899 - 762 pages
...RELIGION. 243 And feels compassion touch his grateful soul. Thus artists melt the sullen ore of lead, "With heaping coals of fire upon its head ; In the kind warmth the metal learns to glow, And, loose from dross, the silver runs below. Long had our pious friend in virtue trod, But now the child... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Leon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Literature - 1899 - 428 pages
...of fire upon his head; In the kind warmth the metal learns to glow, And loose from dross the silver runs below. " Long had our pious friend in virtue trod, But now the child half weaned his heart from God (Child of his age); for him he lived in pain, And measured back his steps... | |
 | Henry Coppée - Literature - 1900 - 546 pages
...men be still. And measured back his steps to earth again. To what excesses had this dotage run ! " Long had our pious friend in virtue trod, But now the child half weaned his heart from God ; Child of his age, for him he lived in pain, " What strange events can strike... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1901 - 654 pages
...views the bowl, And feels compassion touch his grateful soul. Thus artists melt the sullen ore of lead, With heaping coals of fire upon its head ; In the kind warmth the metal learns to glow, And loose from dross, the silver runs below. ' Long had our pious friend in virtue trod, But now the child... | |
 | American poetry - 1901 - 1080 pages
...views the bowl, And feels compassion touch his grateful soul. Thus artists melt the sullen ore of lead, he view'd, in spite of all her art, An earthly lover lurking at her heart. Ama tc glow, And, loose from dross, the silver runs below. " Long had our pious friend in virtue trod,... | |
 | Literature - 1901 - 658 pages
...compassion touch his grateful soul. Thus artists melt the sullen ore of lead With heaping coals of lire upon its head ; In the kind warmth the metal learns to glow, And, loose from dross, the silver runs below. " Long had our pious friend in virtue trod ; But now the child... | |
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