"Song of Songs" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in this case, Hezekiah was one of the most pious kings of Judah. Especially he is deserving of praise for his efforts to have Hebrew literature put into writing, for it was Hezekiah who had copies made of the books of Isaiah, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, and Proverbs. (89) On the other hand, he had concealed the books containing medical ...
— THE LEGENDS OF THE JEWS VOLUME IV BIBLE TIMES AND CHARACTERS - FROM THE EXODUS TO THE DEATH OF MOSES • BY LOUIS GINZBERG
... his natural voice and enunciation, having reached the limit of extemporization,—"and if you think old, sweet, blue-eyed Solomon has anything on me in singing the Song of Songs, just put your names down for the subscription edition of my ...
— The Little Lady of the Big House • Jack London
... borrowed from England that supreme delicacy of carrying off one's wife, of fleeing, on coming out of church, of hiding oneself with shame from one's happiness, and of combining the ways of a bankrupt with the delights of the Song of Songs. People had not yet grasped to the full the chastity, exquisiteness, and decency of jolting their paradise in a posting-chaise, of breaking up their mystery with clic-clacs, of taking for a nuptial bed the bed of an inn, ...
— Les Miserables - Complete in Five Volumes • Victor Hugo
... order is To which all work belongs, And in this wondrous world of His Work is the song of songs. ...
— Brave Men and Women - Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs • O.E. Fuller
... thought it whim, And so our beaux and beauties turn'd from him. Of questions, much he wrote, profound and dark, - How spake the serpent, and where stopp'd the ark; From what far land the queen of Sheba came; Who Salem's Priest, and what his father's name; He made the Song of Songs its mysteries yield, And Revelations to the world reveal'd. He sleeps i' the aisle,—but not a stone records His name or fame, his actions or his words: And truth, your reverence, when I look around, And mark the tombs in our sepulchral ground (Though dare I not of one ...
— The Parish Register • George Crabbe |
