That strange, mysterious spark of mind, shrined in the frailest clay, Now flames amid the seraph band in a "house" that will not decay.
And back, on laden wings, The music of my better life it brings; For years of happiness, departed long, Are shrined in that old song.
The looks and lips so gay and wise, The thousand charms that wreathe them, --Almost I dare believe that truth Is safely shrined beneath them.
And others, happier, rise and fare To pass within the hallowed portal, And see the glory shining there Shrined in her steadfast eyes immortal.
On Tabor's height a glory came, And, shrined in clouds of lambent flame, The awestruck, hushed disciples saw Christ and the prophets of the law.
Wouldst thou have me love thee, dearest, With a woman's proudest heart, Which shall ever hold thee nearest, Shrined in its inmost heart?
Dear are the loved and lovely maids Shrined in the patriot soldier's heart; Yet, while the foe our land invades, In vain the longing tear may start.
Mount Tabor On Tabor's height a glory came, And, shrined in clouds of lambent flame, The awestruck, hushed disciples saw Christ and the prophets of the law.
His power and His wisdom have their noblest illustration in the work of Jesus, and are less conspicuously manifested in all His work; but His grace isshrined in Christ alone, and from Him flows forth into a thirsty world.
It is but a lone faded rosebud That a dearly loved one gave to me, In years now long past but remembered And shrined for the years yet to be.
Shrined in the sacred temple of my soul, He seems again to live, And fond affection give, His mother's heart comfort and console.
Can we marvel that she shrined her in her heart of hearts as a being more than human--scarcely less than divine?
Shrined like a rainbow in a mist Of flowers, the fretted amethyst Arches rose to a mystic tune; And never mortal art inlaid Those cloudy floors of sea-soft jade.
I take counsel at the beginning of my (rule), How I can follow (the example of) my shrined father.
And because, to one so worthy, I never could have offered less than the best, I want to tell you that in my heart I hold shrined forever one beloved face.
Would'st thou have me love thee, dearest, With a woman's proudest heart, Which shall ever hold thee nearest Shrined in its inmost heart?
There was a power in it, as if the soul Of her who painted it had shrined in it Its very self; there was a spell in it That fell upon his spirit thro' his eyes, And made him dream of God's own holy heart.
I would rather that my name Would be shrined in some one's prayer.
But, if this be so, the holy Power who is shrined in Christ must show the features of the Mind which tabernacles in nature.
Mystic in its sacredness, Conscience sat shrined within the soul of the holy men who spake as they were moved of the Holy Ghost; her voice the very voice of God.
A child may learn the tables of the Israelitish Kings, the geography of the Holy Land, and the architect's plans of the temple of Jerusalem, and may be learning nothing whatever of the real religion which is shrined within the Bible.
The golden air is thick with suggestions of dim celestial faces, but nothing mars the imposing solitude of the Queen of Heaven, shrined alone, throned in the luminous azure.
Not on this idle page I write That name of names, shrined in the core Of every heart!
The Ark that holds our shrined liberty, Nearer, and yet more near Some height of promise o'er the ensanguined sea.
The garlands green above his hero-grave; Yet weep, for praise can never wake his sleep, To tell him he is shrined among the brave!
But another idol was shrined and secretly worshipped there.
I have dreamed of you ever since I shrined you in my heart--back there--long ago by the roadside.
Because he shrined his honor above your insatiable greed you undertook to doom him.
And how few even of the deserving among the multitude can deserve, as 'dear sons of memory,' to be shrined in the public heart.
That which men spurned, angels have shrined Among God's truths on high.
