"Infold" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... we had a little child,— (Ah, was it long ago, or yesterday?) Into his mother's eyes and mine he smiled Unconscious love; warm in our arms he lay. An angel called! Dear heart, we could not hold him; Yet secretly your arms and mine infold him— Our little child who does not ...
— The Poems of Henry Van Dyke • Henry Van Dyke
... your airy number Have sung him truly into slumber: For this performance I your debtor prove.— Not yet art thou the man, to catch the Fiend and hold him!— With fairest images of dreams infold him, Plunge him in seas of sweet untruth! Yet, for the threshold's magic which controlled him, The Devil needs a rat's quick tooth. I use no lengthened invocation: Here rustles one that ...
— Faust • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
... I will tread the maze With men my brothers, yet my hands withhold From building at the Babel towers they raise, And all my life within my heart infold." ...
— The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance • Paul Elmer More
... guest Let one, despatchful, bid some swain to lead A well-fed bullock from the grassy mead; One seek the harbour where the vessels moor, And bring thy friends, Telemachus! ashore (Leave only two the galley to attend); Another Laerceus must we send, Artist devine, whose skilful hands infold The victim's horn with circumfusile gold. The rest may here the pious duty share, And bid the handmaids for the feast prepare, The seats to range, the fragrant wood to bring, And limpid waters from the ...
— The Odyssey of Homer • Homer, translated by Alexander Pope
... the achievements of human labor and perseverance recorded in history, there is none more herculean than the opening of a New-England forest to cultivation. The fables of antiquity are all suggestive of instruction, and infold wisdom. The earliest inhabitants of every wooded country, who subdued its wilderness, were truly a race ...
— Salem Witchcraft, Volumes I and II • Charles Upham
... grave, to men unknown, Where Moab's rocks a vale infold, And laid the aged seer alone To slumber while ...
— Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant - Household Edition • William Cullen Bryant |
