 That is no true alms which the hand can hold; He gives nothing but worthless gold Who gives from a sense of duty; But he who gives but a slender mite, And gives to that which is out of sight, That thread of the all-sustaining Beauty Which runs through...  Conduct as a Fine Art: The Laws of Daily Conduct - Page 86by Nicholas Paine Gilman - 1891Full view - About this book
 | Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1849 - 566 pages
...to me the poor man's crust, Better the blessing of the poor, Though I turn me empty from his door; That is no true alms which the hand can hold ; He gives nothing but worthless gold Who gives from a sense of duty ; But he who gives a slender mite, And gives... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1849 - 276 pages
...to me the poor man's crust, Better the blessing of the poor, Though I turn me empty from his door; That is no true alms which the hand can hold ; He gives nothing but worthless gold Who gives from a sense of duty ; But he who gives a slender mite, And gives... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1856 - 368 pages
...to me the poor man's crust, Better the blessing of the poor, Though I turn me empty from his door ; That is no true alms which the hand can hold, He gives nothing but worthless gold *." Far less effective must be any legalized or even transcendentally actuated... | |
 | Sir Rutherford Alcock - 1857 - 312 pages
...worth and favour to be trampled out by the iron heel of power, whether lay or fpiritual. CHARITY. " THAT is no true alms which the hand can hold ; He gives nothing but worthlefs gold Who gives from a fenfe of duty ; But he who gives a (lender mite, And gives... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1857 - 334 pages
...I turn me empty from his door ; That is no true alms which the hand can hold ; He gives nothing but worthless gold Who gives from a sense of duty ; But he who gives a slender mite, And gives to that which is out of sight, That thread of the all-sustaining Beauty Which... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1858 - 342 pages
...to me the poor man's crust, Better the blessing of the poor, Though I turn me empty from his door; That is no true alms which the hand can hold ; He gives nothing but worthless gold Who gives from a sense of duty ; But he who gives a slender mite, And gives... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1863 - 338 pages
...to me the poor man's crust, Better the blessing of the poor, Though I turn me empty from his door ; That is no true alms which the hand can hold ; He gives nothing but worthless gold That thread of the all-sustaining Beauty Which runs through all and doth... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1866 - 68 pages
...to me the poor man's crust, Better the blessing of the poor, Though I turn me empty from his door ; That is no true alms which the hand can hold; He gives nothing but worthless gold Who gives from a sense of duty ; But he who gives a slender mite, And gives... | |
 | 1867 - 894 pages
...to me the poor man's crust, Better the blessing of the poor, Though I turn me empty from his door ; That is no true alms wh'ich the hand can hold ; He gives nothing but worthless gold Who gives from a sense of duty ; But he who gives a slender mite, And gives... | |
 | Anna Randall Diehl - 1872 - 460 pages
...to me the poor man's crust, Better the blessing of the poor, Though I turn me empty from his door; That is no true alms which the hand can hold; He gives nothing but worthless gold Who gives from a sense of duty ; But he who gives a slender mite, And gives... | |
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