 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 440 pages
...to see A mighty babe, whose pure, unspotted birth From a ehaste virgin womb should bless the Earth. But these vast mysteries his senses smother, And reason (for what's faith to him ?) devour, How she that is a maid should prove u mother, Yet keep inviolate her virgin flow'r; How... | |
 | Richard Cattermole - Christian poetry, English - 1836 - 436 pages
...to see A mighty babe, whose pure, unspotted birth, From a chaste virgin womb should bless the earth. But these vast mysteries his senses smother, And reason (for what's faith to him ?) devour : How she that is a maid should prove a mother, Yet keep inviolate her virgin flower ; How... | |
 | Giles Fletcher - English poetry - 1836 - 442 pages
...to see A mighty babe, whose pure, unspotted birth, From a chaste virgin womb should bless the earth. But these vast mysteries his senses smother, And reason (for what's faith to him ?) devour: How she that is a maid should prove a mother, Yet keep inviolate her virgin flower ; How... | |
 | Christmas - 1849 - 250 pages
...Myfteries his fenfes fmother, And Reafon (for what's Faith to him ?) devoure. How (he that is a maid fhould prove a Mother, Yet keepe inviolate her virgin flower; How Gods eternall Sonne mould be mans Brother, Pofeth his proudeft Intelleftuall power. How a pure Spirit mould incarnate bee,... | |
 | Sara Coleridge - 1849 - 240 pages
...Myfteries his fenfes fmother, And Reafon (for what's Faith to him ?) devoure. How me that is a maid mould prove a Mother, Yet keepe inviolate her virgin flower ; How Gods eternall Sonne mould be mans Brother, Pofeth his proudeft Intelleftuall power. How a pure Spirit mould incarnate bee,... | |
 | Richard Crashaw - Emblems - 1857 - 408 pages
...see A mighty babe, whose pure, unspotted birth, From a chaste virgin womb should bless the earth. 21 But these vast mysteries his senses smother, And reason (for what's faith to him?) devour, How she that is a maid should prove a mother, Yet keep inviolate her virgin flower; How God's... | |
 | Richard Crashaw - Engelse digkuns - 1858 - 384 pages
...to see A mighty babe, whose pure, unspotted birth From a chaste virgin womb should bless the earth. But these vast mysteries his senses smother, And reason — for what's faith to him ? — devour : How she that is a maid should prove a mother, Yet keep inviolate her virgin flow'r ;... | |
 | Richard Crashaw - English poetry - 1872 - 576 pages
...pure, unspotted birth From a chast virgin wom be, should blesse the Earth. SOSPETTO D' HERODE. 103 xxi. But these vast mysteries his senses smother, And reason...mother, Yet keepe inviolate her virgin flower ; How God's eternall Sonne should he Man's hrother, Poseth his proudest intellectuall power. How a pure Spirit... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1874 - 600 pages
...to see A mighty Babe, whose pure, unspotted birth From a chaste virgin womb should bless the earth ! But these vast mysteries his senses smother, And reason, — for what's faith to him! — devour, How she that is a maid should prove a mother. Yet keep inviolate her virgin flower: How... | |
 | Richard Crashaw - 1901 - 282 pages
...to see A mighty Babe, Whose pure, unspotted birth, From a chaste virgin womb should bless the Earth. But these vast mysteries his senses smother, And reason (for what's faith to him ? ) devour, How She that is a maid should prove a mother, Yet keep inviolate her virgin flower ; How... | |
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How she that is a maid should prove a Mother, Yet keepe inviolate her virgin flower ; How Gods eternall Sonne should be mans Brother, Poseth his proudest Intellectuall power. 
