...limits to the woman's freedom of erotic choice. In 1.6 she elliptically recalls her brothers' anger: "My mother's children were angry with me; they made...vineyards; But mine own vineyard have I not kept" (1.6). The tone might be equally regretful and apologetic, or mocking and defiant. In 5.8, when she...

...allegories that have been coined for these notions. It says: My mother's sons were incensed against me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept [Song 1:6]. It says on this very same subject: Lest thou give thy splendor unto others, and thy years...

...and strength have run in the wrong channel. I fear most of us may take up the church's complaint : " They made me the keeper of the vineyards ; but mine own vineyard have I not kept." Two things have eaten up the time and strength of the professors of this generation, and sadly diverted...

...expressed in the beginning of those poems, which alegoricaEy represent the state of our soul. " My mother*s children were angry with me ; they made me the keeper of the viney«ds ; but mine own vineyard have I not kept" (Song i. 6). Also the following passage refers to...

...swarthy, Because the sun hath scorched me. My mother's sons were incensed against me, They made me keeper of the vineyards ; But mine own vineyard have I not kept. Our attention is here drawn to a danger which is pre-eminently one of this day : the intense activity...

...Bereshit Rabbah, Parashah 21, Siman 24] and not exist only according to the aspect of "They made me keeper of the vineyards; But mine own vineyard have I not kept" [Song of Songs 1 :6] . Our prophets felt that they -were prophets not only for Israel. They knew that...

...Christ commits her to the care of St John, speaking words from the Song of Songs (1: 6): 'Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me.' The English lines, which follow, invite the reader to imagine the scene at sunset on the same day,...