Excerpt from The Triumph of Woman: Prose Essays The very essence of sin seems to me to be the wilful rebellion against the principle of divine motherhood, the principle which should sway and rule the universe. It is astonishing to find, on careful examination, how completely all great and noble poetry of the emotional order depends for its nobleness and greatness on the ceaseless assertion of this one principle. Swinburne's Songs before Sunrise, rightly understood, is one long cry of love, one mighty wave of adoration of ...
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Excerpt from The Triumph of Woman: Prose Essays The very essence of sin seems to me to be the wilful rebellion against the principle of divine motherhood, the principle which should sway and rule the universe. It is astonishing to find, on careful examination, how completely all great and noble poetry of the emotional order depends for its nobleness and greatness on the ceaseless assertion of this one principle. Swinburne's Songs before Sunrise, rightly understood, is one long cry of love, one mighty wave of adoration of God the Divine Mother. It is in one sense a wholly feminine book. It is the feminine in man responding to the feminine in God. It is written in the spirit which makes a woman rush to a wounded animal, and hold it to her heart. When once our eyes are open to this, all poetry becomes clear to us. I do not bid thee spare me, O dreadful mother! I pray thee that thou spare not, of thy grace. How were it with me then, if ever another Should come to stand before thee in this my place? Thou art the player whose organ-keys are thunders, And I beneath thy foot the pedal prest. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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