 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
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1847 - 638 pagina’s
...wo 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 ihat inanimate cold world allow'd Tu the poor loveless ever-anxious crowd, Ah ! from the soul itself... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1849 - 578 pagina’s
...receive but what we give, Aod in our life alone does nature live • 49 Dura i> her wedding-garment, cure her shroud ! And would we aught behold, of higher worth, Than that inanimate cold world allow'd To ihe |«or loveless ever-ansious crowd, Ah ! from the soul itself must issue forth, Л light, a glory,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1850 - 764 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...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... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1850 - 282 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 Itaelf must issue forth A light,... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1851 - 386 pagina’s
...wedding garment, or so powerless and extinct as to seem palled in her shroud, — in either case, ' 0, Lady ! we receive but what we give, And in our life...live ; Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud. ' It were a vain endeavor, Though I should gaze for ever On that green light that lingers in the west... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1851 - 384 pagina’s
...wedding garment, or so powerless and extinct as to seem palled in her shroud, — in either case, ' 0, Lady ! we receive but what we give, And in our life...live ; Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud. ' It were a vain endeavor, Though I should gaze for ever On that green light that lingers in the west... | |
 | Margaret Gatty - 1851 - 170 pagina’s
...her fteps homewards, fhe repeated to herfelf foftly but with much pathos, Coleridge's lines: * " O lady, we receive but what we give, And in our life alone does nature live : Ours is her wedding-garment, ours her flmnid ! And would we aught behold, of higher worth, • Coleridge's " Deje&ion... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1851 - 378 pagina’s
...extinct as to seem palled in her shroud, — ->n ex*et ' 0, Lady ! we receive but what we give, Anil in our life alone does nature live ; Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud. ' It were a vain endeavor, Though I should gaze for ever On that green light that lingers in the 1... | |
 | 1851 - 902 pagina’s
...the blessed promises of immortality. Man is not doomed to be for ever the slave of material being. would we aught behold of higher worth Than that inanimate, cold world allowed To the poor, loncless, ever-anxious crowd — Ah ! from the soul itself must issue forth A... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1852 - 604 pagina’s
...We receive but what we give, And in our life alone does nature live ; Ours is hei 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,... | |
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