Source: Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
“The last and greatest herald of Heaven's King,
Girt with rough skins, hies to the deserts wild,
Among that savage brood the woods forth bring,
Which he than man more harmless found and mild.”
"For the Baptist" Flowers of Sion (1623).
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British writer 1585–1649Related quotes
II, st. 1
The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933), A Dialogue of Self and Soul http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1397/
Context: What matter if I live it all once more?
Endure that toil of growing up;
The ignominy of boyhood; the distress
Of boyhood changing into man;
The unfinished man and his pain
Brought face to face with his own clumsiness;
The finished man among his enemies?—
How in the name of Heaven can he escape
That defiling and disfigured shape
The mirror of malicious eyes
Casts upon his eyes until at last
He thinks that shape must be his shape?
Source: A Memorial Containing Travels Through Life or Sundry Incidents in the Life of Dr Benjamin Rush
"Hymn for Christmas-Day"
Hymns and Sacred Poems (1739)
Part VI
The City of Dreadful Night (1870–74)
Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle, l. 161 (1807).