 breadth" till it argued him narrow, The broad are too broad to define; And of "truth" until it proclaimed him a liar, The truth never flaunted a sign. Simplicity fled from his counterfeit presence As gold the pyrites would shun. What confusion would cover...  Ronald Carnaquay: A Commercial Clergyman - Sivu 167tekijä(t) Bradley Gilman - 1903 - 374 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Emily Dickinson - 1891 - 248 sivua
...dungeons Have sometimes proved deadly sweet ! XXXVIII. THE PREACHER. TT E preached upon " breadth " till it argued him narrow, — The broad are too broad...proclaimed him a liar, — The truth never flaunted a sign. Simplicity fled from his counterfeit presence As gold the pyrites would shun. What confusion would... | |
 | Emily Dickinson - 1891 - 248 sivua
...dungeons Have sometimes proved deadly sweet ! XXXVIII. THE PREACHER. TLJ E preached upon " breadth " till it argued him narrow, — The broad are too broad...proclaimed him a liar, — The truth never flaunted a sign. Simplicity fled from his counterfeit presence As gold the pyrites would shun. What confusion would... | |
 | Emily Dickinson - 1893 - 406 sivua
...dungeons Have sometimes proved deadly sweet ! XXXVIII. THE PREACHER. "IT E preached upon " breadth " till it argued him narrow, — The broad are too broad...proclaimed him a liar, — The truth never flaunted a sign. Simplicity fled from his counterfeit presence As gold the pyrites would shun. What confusion would... | |
 | James Fullarton Muirhead - 1898 - 306 sivua
...dominie in grey Put gently up the evening bars, And led the flock away." " He preached upon ' breadth' till it argued him narrow — The broad are too broad...proclaimed him a liar — The truth never flaunted a sign. Simplicity fled from his counterfeit presence As gold the pyrites would shun. What confusion would... | |
 | Emily Dickinson - 1901 - 244 sivua
...dungeons Have sometimes proved deadly sweet ! XXXVIII. THE PREACHER. TLJ E preached upon " breadth " till it argued him narrow, — The broad are too broad...proclaimed him a liar, — The truth never flaunted a sign. Simplicity fled from his counterfeit presence As gold the pyrites would shun. What confusion would... | |
 | Emily Dickinson - 1910 - 252 sivua
...dungeons Have sometimes proved deadly sweet ! XXXVIII. THE PREACHER. TTE preached upon " breadth " till it argued him narrow, — The broad are too broad...proclaimed him a liar, — The truth never flaunted a sign. Simplicity fled from his counterfeit presence As gold the pyrites would shun. What confusion would... | |
 | William Valentine Kelley - 1911 - 440 sivua
...heaven at last, I'm going all along. Sometimes she criticizes the preachers : He preached upon "breadth" till it argued him narrow — The broad are too broad...proclaimed him a liar — The truth never flaunted a sign. Simplicity fled from his counterfeit presence As gold the pyrites would shun. What confusion would... | |
 | Emily Dickinson - 1924 - 360 sivua
...Anecdotes of air in dungeons Have sometimes proved deadly sweet ! LXIV HE preached upon " breadth " till it argued him narrow, — The broad are too broad...proclaimed him a liar, — The truth never flaunted a sign. Simplicity fled from his counterfeit presence As gold the pyrites would shun. What confusion would... | |
 | Emily Dickinson - 1959 - 172 sivua
...neighbor be. Fair play Both went to see. 150 He preached upon 'Breadth' till it argued him narrowThe broad are too broad to define; And of 'Truth', until...proclaimed him a liar, The truth never flaunted a sign. Simplicity fled from his counterfeit presence As gold the pyrites would shun. What confusion would... | |
 | Gerald Guinness, Andrew Hurley - 1986 - 244 sivua
...falling. Let us look now at a poem wherein the mid-lines come closer to rhyme: He preached upon "Breadth" till it argued him narrow— The Broad are too broad...proclaimed him a liar-- The Truth never flaunted a Sign-- Simplicity fled from his counterfeit presence As Gold the Pyrites would shun— What confusion would... | |
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