O Lady! we receive but what we give And in our life alone does Nature live: Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud! And would we aught behold of higher worth, Than that inanimate cold world allowed To the poor loveless ever-anxious crowd, Ah! from... Constancy, and Contrition - Pagina 190door Constancy - 1844Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
| 1834 - 918 pagina’s
...I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within. " O Lady ! we receive but what we give, And in our life...inanimate cold world allowed To the poor loveless ever-anxious crowd, Ah ! from the soul itself must issue forth, A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1817 - 330 pagina’s
...may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within. IV. O Lady ! we receive but what we give, And in our life alone does nature live : Ours is her wedding-garment, ours her shroud ! And would we aught behold, of higher worth, Than that inanimate... | |
| 1844 - 634 pagina’s
...We receive but what we give, And in our life alone does Nature live ; Ours is her wedding-garment, ours her shroud. And would we aught behold of higher worth Than that inanimate cold world allow'd To the poor, loveless, ever-anxious crowd, Ah ! from the Soul itself must issue forth The light,... | |
| British poets - 1828 - 838 pagina’s
...' : may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within. O Lady ! we receive but what we give, And in our life...alone does nature live : Ours is her wedding -garment, our* her shroud ! And would we aught behold of higher worth. Than that inanimate cold world allow'd... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1828 - 374 pagina’s
...may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within. Iv. O Lady ! we receive but what we give, And in our life alone does nature live : Ours is her wedding-garment, ours her shroud ! And would we aught behold, of higher worth, Than that inanimate... | |
| 1830 - 550 pagina’s
...receive but wh«t we give, And in our Life alone do^s Nnture live : Ours is her weddi ritr-earment, ours her shroud ! And would we aught behold, of higher worth Than that inanimate cold world, allow 41 To the poor, loveless, ever-anxious crowd; Ah ! from the »oui itself must issue forth A light,... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pagina’s
...west: I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within. O Lady ! we receive but what we give, And in our life alone does nature live: Ours is her wedding-garment, ours her shroud ! And would we aught behold, of higher worth, Than that inanimate... | |
| 1834 - 896 pagina’s
...I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains art within. " O Lady ! we receive but what we give, And in our life...inanimate cold world allowed To the poor loveless ever-anxious crowd, Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth, A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud... | |
| 1834 - 864 pagina’s
...I may not hope from eutward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within. ' O Lady ! we receive but what we give, And in our life...inanimate cold world allowed To the poor loveless ever-anxious crowd, Ah ! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud,... | |
| 1834 - 512 pagina’s
...should gaze for ever On that green light that lingers in the west: I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are...And in our life alone does nature live ; Ours is her wedding-garment, ours her shroud ! And would we aught behold of higher worth, Than that inanimate cold... | |
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