 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
 | 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... | |
 | 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 light, a glory, a fair... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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 worth Than that inanimate cold world allow'd To the poor, loveless, ever-anxious crowd, Ah ! from the soul itself must issue forth A light,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 712 pagina’s
...we jreceive but what jwe give, And in our life alone does nature live T Ours is her wedding-garment, ours her shroud ! And would we aught behold, of higher...inanimate cold world allowed To the poor loveless ever-anxipus crowd, Ah ! \Łom the s^uHtself must jssue. forth, A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1853 - 596 pagina’s
...what we give, And in our life alone does nature live ; Ours is hei wedding-garment, ours her sbroiui 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 A light,... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Hemans - 1854 - 280 pagina’s
..."We receive but what we five. And in our life alone does nature live : Oun It her wedding-garment, ours her shroud ; And, would we aught behold of higher...Than that inanimate cold world allowed To the poor level CM ever-anxious crewd. Ah ! from the aoul it.wlf must iuue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge - 1854 - 396 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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