mystic quotes

   Straightway I was 'ware So weeping, how a mystic shape did move Behind me, and drew me backward by the hair And a voice said in mastery while I strove† 'Guess now who holds thee!''Death', I said, but there The silver answer rang† 'Not Death, but Love.'

- Elizabeth ne  e Barrett Browning
  Poems,'Sonnets from the Portuguese', sonnet1.

   And everyone will say, As you walk your mystic way, 'If this young man expresses himself in terms too deep for me, Why, what a very singularly deep young man this deep young man must be!'

- Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck) Gilbert
Bunthorne's song, Patience, act1.

'Tis thou, alone, who with thy mystic fan, Work'st more than Wisdom, Art, or Nature can, To rouse the sacred madness; and awake The frost-bound-blood, and spirits; and to make Them frantic with thy raptures, flashing through The soul, like lightning, and as active too.

- Robert Herrick
  'His Fare-well to Sack'.

Clothed in white samite, mystic, wonderful.

-Tennyson
  Idylls of the King,'The Coming of Arthur', l.284.