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Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. - Bible, Hebrews (ch. XIII, v. 2) As the moths around a taper, As the bees around a rose, As the gnats around a vapour, So the spirits group and close Round about a holy childhood, as if drinking its repose. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, A Child Asleep Like angel visits, few and far between. - Thomas Campbell But sad as angels for the good man's sin, Weep to record, and blush to give it in. - Thomas Campbell, Pleasures of Hope (pt. II, l. 357) What though my winged hours of bliss have been Like angel visits, few and far between. - Thomas Campbell, Pleasures of Hope (pt. II, l. 375) The angels may have wider spheres of action, may have nobler forms of duty; but right with them and with us is one and the same thing. - Edwin Hubbell Chapin Hold the fleet angel fast until he bless thee. - Nathaniel Cotton, To-morrow (l. 36) When one that holds communion with the skies Has fill'd his urn where these pure waters rise, And once more mingles with us meaner things, 'Tis e'en as if an angel shook his wings. - William Cowper, Charity (l. 439) We are ne'er like angels till our passion dies. - Thomas Dekker (Decker), The Honest Whore (pt. II, act I, sc. 2) What is the question now placed before society with the glib assurance which to me is most astonishing? That question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I, my lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence those new fangled theories. - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, in a speech at the Oxford Diocesan Conference In merest prudence men should teach . . . That science ranks as monstrous things Two pairs of upper limbs; so wings-- E'en Angel's wings!--are fictions. - Henry Austin Dobson, A Fairy Tale Let old Timotheus yield the prize Or both divide the crown; He rais'd a mortal to the skies She drew an angel down. - John Dryden, Alexander's Feast (last st.) We cannot let our angels go; we do not see that they only go out that archangels may come in. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Not Angles, but Angels. [Lat., Non Angli, sed Angeli.] - attributed to Gregory I, the Great (Saint Gregory), on seeing British captives for sale at Rome Unbless'd thy hand!--if in this low disguise Wander, perhaps, some inmate of the skies. - Homer ("Smyrns of Chios"), The Odyssey (bk. XVII, l. 570), (Pope's translation) O, though oft oppressed and lonely, All my fears are laid aside, If I but remember only Such as these have lived and died! - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow There are two angels that attend unseen Each one of us, and in great books record Our good and evil deeds. He who writes down The good ones, after every action closes His volume, and ascends with it to God. The other keeps his dreadful day-book open Till sunset, that we may repent; which doing, The record of the action fades away, And leaves a line of white across the page. Now if my act be good, as I believe it, It cannot be recalled. It is already Sealed up in heaven, as a good deed accomplished. The rest is yours. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow But all God's angels come to us undisguised: Sorrow and sickness, poverty and death, One after other lift their frowning masks, And we behold the Seraph's face beneath, All radiant with the glory and the calm Of having looked upon the front of God. - James Russell Lowell, On the Death of a Friend's Child (l. 21) In this dim world of clouding cares, We rarely know, till 'wildered eyes See white wings lessening up the skies, The Angels with us unawares. - Gerald Massey, The Ballad of Babe Christabel Angels contented with their face in heaven, Seek not the praise of men. - John Milton How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled! - John Milton, Comus (l. 249) The helmed Cherubim, And sworded Seraphim, Are seen in glittering ranks with wings display'd. - John Milton, Hymn on the Nativity (l. 112) As far as angel's ken. - John Milton, Paradise Lost (bk. I, l. 59) For God will deign To visit oft the dwellings of just men Delighted, and with frequent intercourse Thither will send his winged messengers On errants of supernal grace. - John Milton, Paradise Lost (bk. VII, l. 569) Then too when angel voices sung The mercy of their God, and strung Their harps to hail, with welcome sweet, That moment watched for by all eyes. - Thomas Moore, Loves of the Angels--Third Angel's Story Displaying page 1 of 2 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2
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