 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
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 448 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... | |
 | 1856 - 368 pagina’s
...plain iambics of a passage which forms an excellent commentary on the whole doctrine of poetry:— ' O Lady ! we receive but what we give, And in our life...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 MacDonald - 1858 - 352 pagina’s
...conviction that my present dislike would soon grow to loathing, I took my dreary way through the wood. IX. O Lady ! we receive but what we give, And in our life...live : Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud ! * * * Ah ! from the soul itself must issue forth, A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud, Enveloping... | |
 | George MacDonald - 1858 - 340 pagina’s
...conviction that my present dislike would soon grow to loathing, I took my dreary way through the wood. IX. O Lady! we receive but what we give, And in our life...live: Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud! * * * Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth, A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud, Enveloping... | |
 | Frederick William Robertson - 1858 - 384 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...live : Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud! "* We all possess this tendency when the imagination has been intensified by one single passion, or... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1858 - 792 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... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1859 - 1136 pagina’s
...the soul sees in varied lights and attitudes, the image of itself. " We receive but what we give, And in our life alone does nature live. Ours is her wedding...shroud ; And would we aught behold of higher worth Than the inanimate cold world allowed To the poor, loveless, ever anxious crowd. All, from the soul itself... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1859 - 420 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 cold... | |
 | Frederick William Robertson - 1859 - 372 pagina’s
...The passion and the life, whose fountains are within. " O Lady ! we receive but what we give, 1 And in our life alone does nature live: Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud ! " * We all possess this tendency when the imagination has been intensified by one single passion,... | |
 | Frederick William Robertson - 1859 - 372 pagina’s
...win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within. O Ladr ! we receive but what we give, And in our life alone does nature live : Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud ! " * We all possess this tendency when the imagination has been intensified by one single passion,... | |
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