Alexandrines
by Julia Bilger
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- Alexandrines Of Angelus Silesius.Forword : Sacred-Texts Christianity Angelus Silesius Index Previous Next FOREWORD Many years ago in lovely Lindau on the Bodensee, I happened upon a thin volume of Angelus Silesius' couplets which startled, amused and greatly interested me. Although it was in 1657 the world had first received them it seemed...
- Alexandrines Of Angelus Silesius.Biographical Note : Sacred-Texts Christianity Angelus Silesius Index Previous Next BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE Johann Scheffler was born at Breslau in 1614, the oldest of three children of a 62 year old Protestant nobleman who after years of military service in Poland had retired to his native Silesia and married the 24 year...
- Alexandrines Of Angelus Silesius : Sacred-Texts Christianity Angelus Silesius Index Previous p. 1 "Children Cry Over Dolls" (6:224) Thou laughest that a child cries o'er its broken doll;-- The things o'er which thou mournest--are they not playthings all? "Mine and Thine" (5:238) Naught more than "mine and thine"--(and mark this...
- Title Page : Sacred-Texts Christianity Angelus Silesius Index Next ALEXANDRINES Translated From The "CHERUBINSCHER WANDERSMANN" Of ANGELUS SILESIUS 1657 By JULIA BILGER "Published by" THE DRIFTWIND PRESS North Montpelier Vermont 1944 Next
