 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 242 pages
...not hope, from outward forms, to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within. • iii * From the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory,...luminous cloud, Enveloping the earth And from the soul itself must there be sent A sweet and potent voice, of its own birth — Of all sweet sounds the... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1858 - 792 pages
...I 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...luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth — And from the soul itself must there be sent A sweet and potent voice, of its own birth, Of all sweet sounds the... | |
 | 1856 - 368 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...luminous cloud Enveloping the earth; And from the soul itself must there be sent A sweet and potent voice, of its own birth, Of all sweet sounds the... | |
 | George MacDonald - History - 1858 - 340 pages
...we give, And in our life alone does nature live: Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud! * * * Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth, A light,...luminous cloud, Enveloping the Earth— And from the soul itself must there be sent A sweet and potent voice, of its own birth, Of all sweet sounds the... | |
 | George MacDonald - 1858 - 352 pages
...give, And in our life alone does nature live : Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud ! * * * Ah ! from the soul itself must issue forth, A light,...luminous cloud, Enveloping the Earth — And from the soul itself must there be sent A sweet and potent voice, of its own birth, Of all sweet sounds the... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1859 - 420 pages
...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...behold of higher worth, Than that inanimate cold world allow'd To the poor loveless ever-anxious crowd, Enveloping the earth— And from the soul itself must... | |
 | Spiritualism - 1860 - 1176 pages
...from the New rather than from the Old Testament. THE SOUL. 0 lady 1 we receive but what we give, And in our life alone does nature live ; Ours is her wedding-garment,...luminous cloud Enveloping the earth ; And from the soul itself must there be sent A sweet and potent voice of its own birth, Of all sweet sounds the life... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1883 - 826 pages
...subjective view of the outer world — that We receive but what wo give, And in our life alone doth Nature live : Ours is her wedding-garment, ours her...glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the earth — * Richard Barnfield, " As it fell upon a day " — an ode falsely attributed to Shakespeare in... | |
 | Henry Reed - English poetry - 1860 - 312 pages
...are within." In another strain of the same ode the important imaginative truth is set forth :— " From the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory,...luminous cloud Enveloping the earth. And from the soul itself must there be sent A sweet and potent voice of its own birth, Of all sweet sounds the life... | |
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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... 
