psalm quotes

   And when the tumult dwindled to a calm, I left him practising the hundredth psalm.

-Rochdale
  The Vision of  Judgement, stanza106.

The whole wide world is a cathedral; I stand inside, the air is calm, And from afar at times there reaches My ear the echo of a psalm.

- Boris Pasternak
  When It Clears Up (translated by Lydia Pasternak Slater).

Man, her last work, who seemed so fair, Such splendid purpose in his eyes, Who rolled the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer, Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law Though Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed.

-Tennyson
  In Memoriam A.H.H., canto 56, l.9^16.