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
| Lydia Maria Child - 1845 - 310 pagina’s
...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, allowed To the poor loveless ever-anxious crowd, Ah, from the soul itself rnu.-t issue forth A light,... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1845 - 582 pagina’s
...Lady! we receive but what we give, md 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 Avorld allow'd To the poor loveless ever-aniious crowd, Ah ! from the soul itself must issue forth,... | |
| 1845 - 732 pagina’s
...bit of music : — We receive but what we give, And in our life alone does Nature live ; Ours is hsr { { iuanimato cold world, allowed To the poor, InvRlr.ss, ever anxious crowd ? Ah ! from the soul itself... | |
| Lydia Maria Child - 1845 - 302 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 inanimute cold world, allowed To the poor loveless ever-anxioun crowd. Ah, from the soul itself must... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 pagina’s
...— 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... | |
| 1847 - 610 pagina’s
...Nature " we have only to " go and look at her." " 0 lady, we receive hut what we give, And in our life does Nature live ; Ours is her wedding garment, ours...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,... | |
| 1847 - 610 pagina’s
..." go and look at her." " O lady, we receive but what we give, And in our life does Nature live ; R2 Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud ! And...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,... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1847 - 382 pagina’s
...us, when there is a mind at peace within us. Coleridge's words are as true as they are beautiful. " 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 [poetical works] Coleridge - 1847 - 310 pagina’s
...may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within. rv. 0 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... | |
| Half hours - 1847 - 614 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... | |
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