...fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility, the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. COWPER. CLXXXIIL v No one is so accursed by fate, No one so utterly desolate, But some heart, though unknown. Responds as if, with unseen wings, An angel touched the quivering strings, And whispered in his song, Where...

...after all my fears and dark hours, had been given me to do in life. CHAPTER XIV. " O weary hearts! O slumbering eyes! O drooping souls, whose destinies...desolate, But some heart, though unknown, Responds unto his own, Responds—as if with unseen wings, An angel touched its quivering strings, And whispers,...

...Ki>/>ert Browning. April 9th. April 10th April 12th. April 13th. OH, weary heart! oh, slumbering eye! Oh, drooping souls, whose destinies Are fraught with fear...desolate, But some heart, though unknown, Responds unto his own. April 12th. THE rich man's son inherits lands, And piles of brick and stone and gold, And...

...evening, to the setting sun he turns A mournful eye, and down his dying heart Sinks helpless.— Thomson. No one is so accursed by fate, No one so utterly desolate, But some heart, though unknown, Responds unto his own.—Longfellow. 827. DESPAIR. Cry of 'TIS time this heart should be unmoved Since others it...

...sleep, And kisses the closed eyes Of him, who slumbering lies. O weary hearts IO slumbering eyes I O drooping souls, whose destinies Are fraught with fear and pain, Ye shall be loved again 1 No one is so accursed by fate, No one so utterly desolate, But some heart, though unknown, Responds...

...sleep, And kisses the closed eyes Of him, who slumbering lies. 0 weary hearts ! 0 slumbering eyes ! 0 drooping souls, whose destinies Are fraught with fear...desolate, But some heart, though unknown, Responds unto his own. Responds, — as if with unseen wings, An angel touched its quivering strings ; And whispers,...

...sleep, And kisses the closed eyes Of him who slumbering lies. 0, weary hearts ! 0, slumbering eyes ! 0, drooping souls whose destinies Are fraught with fear...is so accursed by fate, No one so utterly desolate, GOD'S-ACRE. I LIKE that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls The burial-ground God's-Acre! It is just;...

...Thou sittest by the fireside of the heart, Feeding its flame. The Spanish Student—Act 1, sc. 2. O, weary hearts ! 0, slumbering eyes ! O, drooping souls,...fraught with fear and pain, Ye shall be loved again! September 8. We must not Grudge, then, to others Endymion. Even the cup of cold water—or crumbs that...

...sleep, And kisses the closed eyes Of him who slumbering lies. O weary hearts ! O slumbering eyes ! No one is so accursed by fate, No one so utterly desolate, But some heart, though unknown, Responds unto his own: Responds,—as if, with unseen wings, An angel touched its quivering strings ; And whispers,...

...earlier volumes. Compare the idea running through it with the wellknown lines of Longfellow :— " No one is so accursed by fate, No one so utterly desolate, But some heart, though unknown, Responds unto his own." The idea itself, of course, is as old as Plato. No. 8.—Page 13. From Flower and Thorn (1877)....