“The warm sun kissed the earth
To consecrate thy birth,
And from his close embrace
Thy radiant face
Sprang into sight,
A blossoming delight.”
"The Soul of the Sunflower" in Scribner's Magazine, Vol. XXII (October 1881), p. 942
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American novelist, short story writer and poet 1849–1909Related quotes

Psalm 90 st. 4.
1710s, "Our God, our help in ages past" (1719)

“Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe.”
Bk. I, ch. 9.
1830s, Sartor Resartus (1833–1834)

Source: The Revolt of the Angels (1914), Ch. XXXV
Context: Satan, piercing space with his keen glance, contemplated the little globe of earth and water where of old he had planted the vine and formed the first tragic chorus. And he fixed his gaze on that Rome where the fallen God had founded his empire on fraud and lie. Nevertheless, at that moment a saint ruled over the Church. Satan saw him praying and weeping. And he said to him:
"To thee I entrust my Spouse. Watch over her faithfully. In thee I confirm the right and power to decide matters of doctrine, to regulate the use of the sacraments, to make laws and to uphold purity of morals. And the faithful shall be under obligation to conform thereto. My Church is eternal, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. Thou art infallible. Nothing is changed."
And the successor of the apostles felt flooded with rapture. He prostrated himself, and with his forehead touching the floor, replied:
"O Lord, my God, I recognise Thy voice! Thy breath has been wafted like balm to my heart. Blessed be Thy name. Thy will be done on Earth, as it is in Heaven. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil."

Poetical Portrait V
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)
“O forgive! Thy sons live from Thee reft;
Praised for grace, Turn thy face to those left,
"Forgiven!"”
Omnam Kayn, trans. from the Hebrew by Israel Zangwill

“It was thy kiss, Love, that made me immortal.”
Probably derived from "Make me immortal with a kiss" in Faustus by Christopher Marlowe.
Dryad Song (1900)

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 90.