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!... The Family friend [ed. by R.K. Philp]. - Page 100edited by Full view - About this book
| England - 1834 - 918 pages
...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,... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1828 - 374 pages
...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,...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,... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 575 pages
...within. IV. О Lady ! we receive but whal we give, • And in our life alone does nature live : Oui* be allowed To the poor loveless ever -anxious crowd, Ah ! from the »oui itself must issue forth, A light,... | |
| 1830 - 550 pages
...receive but wh«t we give, And in our Life alone do^s Nnture live : Ours is her weddi ritr-earment, ours her shroud ! And would we aught behold, of higher worth Than that inanimate cold world, allow 41 To the poor, loveless, ever-anxious crowd; Ah ! from the »oui itself must issue forth A light,... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...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,...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,... | |
| Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans - Religious poetry, English - 1834 - 284 pages
...— the deep, the mild — Mother, my mother ! Now receive thy child, Take back the lost and found ! A THOUGHT OF PARADISE. We receive but what we give,...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,... | |
| 1834 - 512 pages
...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,...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,... | |
| Scotland - 1834 - 896 pages
...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,... | |
| 1837 - 638 pages
...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,...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,... | |
| 1834 - 602 pages
...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,... | |
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