 | Robert Cowtan - 1866 - 436 pages
...whose laps our limbs are nursed, Fall into shadow, soonest lost : Those we love first are taken first. God gives us love. Something to love He lends us ;...which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone." On the death of my mother we removed from Queensquare to what was then known as the New-road, near... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1866 - 398 pages
...whose laps our limbs are nursed, Fall into shadow, soonest lost : Those we love first are taken first. God gives us love. Something to love He lends us ;...which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone. v. This is the curse of time. Alas ! In grief I am not all unlearned ; Once through mine own doors... | |
 | Sarah E. Wall - Women authors, American - 1866 - 432 pages
...part of us — the emotion incorporated into the spiritual nature, which is ours through eternity. " God gives us love. Something to love He lends us : but when love is grown To ripeness, that on whiMi it throve Falls off, and love is left alone." It may be owing to the intimate connection between... | |
 | Society of friends - 1866 - 370 pages
...bringing out the highest qualities of the soul. " God gives us love, something to love He lends ns, and when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone." It is indeed in the sacred school of sorrow, that all the deepest feelings of the soul come forth ;... | |
 | 1866 - 610 pages
...memory) — " GOD gives us Love ; something to love He lends us ; and when Love is grown To fulness, that on which it throve Falls off, and Love is left alone." Dr. Monsell says, speaking of GOD'S gifts — " He gave them, that by slow degrees Love earthly heavenly... | |
 | Richard Donkersley - Children - 1867 - 276 pages
...about which he had felt so solicitous had fled forever. This was the only casualty that took place. " God gives us love. Something to love He lends us ;...which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone." HONESTY EEWAEDED. BotrERiENNB, a distinguished French officer in the days of Napoleon I., going one... | |
 | Richard Simpson - 1868 - 98 pages
...waste of time. But the doctrine of the old sonnet writers was not that of Mr. Tennyson. He sings : — God gives us love ; something to love He lends us*...which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone. They, on the contrary, held that when one object fell off, it only revealed a better and higher object... | |
 | English fiction - 1868 - 438 pages
...simile, " Or we might use the poet's illustration," she said, a soft flush mantling in her cheek : " ' GOD gives us love. Something to love He lends us ;...which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone.' " " An apt quotation, my daughter. Has Sister Christine any more objections ?" " One more, my Father,"... | |
 | S D. N - Genealogy - 1868 - 558 pages
...simile, " Or we might use the poet's illustration," she said, a soft flush mantling in her cheek : " ' GOD gives us love. Something to love He lends us ;...which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone.' " " An apt quotation, my daughter. Has Sister Christine any more objections ?" " One more, my Father,"... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1868 - 402 pages
...whose laps our limbs are nursed, Fall into shadow, soonest lost : Those we love first are taken first. God gives us love. Something to love He lends us ;...which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone. This is the curse of time. Alas ! In grief I am not all unlearn'd ; Once thro' mine own doors Death... | |
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God gives us love. Something to love He lends us; but, when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone. 
