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... Garden Graith; Or Talks Among My Flowers - Pagina 145door Sarah Frances Smiley - 1881 - 195 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
| 1834 - 512 pagina’s
...west: I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within. Oh 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... | |
| Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans - 1834 - 284 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 allowed To the poor, loveless, ever-anxious crowd ; Ah ! from the soul itself must issue forth A light,... | |
| Joseph Cottle - 1837 - 370 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...inanimate cold world allow'd To the poor, loveless, ever-anxious crowd : Ah ! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud,... | |
| Joseph Cottle - 1837 - 370 pagina’s
...written many years ago by the writer, though without reference to, or recollection of, the above. 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... | |
| 1837 - 638 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 alone does nature live : Ours is her wedding-garment, ours her shroud ! And would we aught behold, of higher worth Than that inanimate cold... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1838 - 634 pagina’s
...west: 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 i« her wedding-garment, oure her shroud ! And would we aught behold, of higher worth, Than that inanimate... | |
| 468 pagina’s
...we give, And in our life alone docs Nature live ; Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud Ami would we aught behold of higher worth Than that inanimate cold world allow'il To the poor loveless ever-anxious crowd, Ah 1 from the soul itself must is>ue forth A. light,... | |
| mrs hemans - 1839 - 408 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...inanimate cold world allow'd To the poor, loveless, ever-anxious crowd Ah ! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud,... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1839 - 536 pagina’s
...world of things in themselves is incognizable and inconceivable. " We receive but what we give, And in our life alone does Nature live, Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud." By a full survey of the cognitive faculty of man, Kant sought to ascertain the number and character... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1839 - 572 pagina’s
...world of things in themselves is incognizable and inconceivable. " We receive but what we give, And in our life alone does Nature live, Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud." By a full survey of the cognitive faculty of man, Kant sought to ascertain the number and character... | |
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