"Ninefold" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... light, whose shine no hands destroy, God of song, whose hymn no tongue refuses, Now, though spring far hence be cold and coy, Bid the golden mouths of all the Muses Ring forth gold of strains without alloy, Till the ninefold rapture that suffuses Heaven with song bid earth exult for joy, Since the child whose head this dawn bedews is Sweet ...
— A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems • Algernon Charles Swinburne
... went by, they brought sad hours, When he would sit, his hands upon his knees, Drooping, and longing for the wine of life. For when the ninefold crystal spheres, through which The outer light sinks in, are cracked and broken, Yet able to keep in the 'piring life, Distressing shadows cross the chequered soul: Poor Psyche trims her irresponsive lamp, And anxious visits oft her store of oil, And still the shadows fall: she must go pray! ...
— The Poetical Works of George MacDonald in Two Volumes, Volume I • George MacDonald |
