358 HEART HEART
No command of art,
No toil, can help you hear;
Earth's minstrelsy falls clear
But on the listening heart.
John Vance Cheney—The Listening Heart.
Some hearts are hidden, some have not a heart.
Crabbe—The Borough. Letter XVII.
"There are strings," said Mr. Tappertit, " . . .in the human heart that had better not be wibrated."
The heart asks pleasure first,
And then, excuse from pain;
And then, those little anodynes
That deaden suffering;
And then, to go to sleep;
And then, if it should be
The will of its Inquisitor,
The liberty to die.
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| work = Poems. DC (Ed. 1891)
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| text = <poem>Meine Ruh ist hin,
Mein Herz ist schwer.
My peace is gone, my heart is heavy.
Goethe—Faust. I. 15.
Ganz unbefleckt geniesst sich nur das Herz.
Only the heart without a stain knows perfect ease.
Goethe—Iphigenia auf Tauris. IV. 4. 123.
Doch ein gekranktes Herz erholt sich schwer.
A wounded heart can with difficulty be cured.
Goethe—Torqmlo Tasso. IV. 4. 24.
There is an evening twilight of the heart,
When its wild passion-waves are lulled to rest.
Fitz-Greene Halleck—Twilight.
I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Job. XXIX. 13.
Let not your heart be troubled."
John. XIV. 1.
The head is always the dupe of the heart.
La Rochefoucauld—Maxims. No. 105.
Wo das Herz reden darf braucht es keiner
Vorbereitung.
When the heart dares to speak, it needs no
preparation.
Lessing—Mina von Barnhelm. V. 4.
For his heart was in his work, and the heart
Giveth grace unto every Art.
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| work = The Building of the Ship. L. 7.
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Something the heart must have to cherish,
Must love, and joy, and sorrow learn;
Something with passion clasp, or perish,
And in itself to ashes burn.
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| work = Hyperion. Bk. II. Introduction.
Better to have the poet's heart than brain,
Feeling than song.
George MacDonald—Within and Without.
Pt. III. Sc. 9. L. 30.
The heart is like an instrument whose strings
Steal nobler music from Life's many frets:
The golden threads are spun thro' Suffering's fire,
Wherewith the marriage-robes for heaven are
woven:
And all the rarest hues of human life
Take radiance, and are rainbow'd out in tears.
Gerald Massey—Wedded Love.
Where your treasure is, there will your heart
be also.
Matthew. VI. 21.
But the beating of my own heart
Was all the sound I heard.
And when once the young heart of a maiden is
stolen,
The maiden herself will steal after it soon.
Moore—III Omens.
Zwei Kammern hat das Herz.
Drin wohnen,
Die Freude und der Schmerz.
Two chambers hath the heart.
There dwelling,
Live Joy and Pain apart.
Hermann Neumann—Das Herz. Trans, by
T. W. H. Robinson. Found in Echoes
from Kottabos. Another trans, by Ernest
Radford—Chambers Twain.
Yonkers that have hearts of oak at fourscore
yeares.
Old Meg of Herefordshire. (1609)
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| text = <poem>Oh, the heart is a free and a fetterless thing,—
A wave of the ocean, a bird on the wing.
Julia Pardoe—The Captive Greek Girl.
The incense of the heart may rise.
Pterpont—Every Place a Temple.
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| text = <poem>The heart knoweth his own bitterness.
Proverbs. XIV. 10.
A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.
Proverbs. XV. 13.
He that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.
Proverbs. XV. 15.
A man's heart deviseth his way; but the Lord
directeth his steps.
Proverbs. XVI. 9.
He fashioneth their hearts alike.
Psalms. XXXIII. 15.
