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 American Whig Review - Page 601845Full view - About this book
| 1875 - 588 pages
...are surrounded, we shall dwell in dreariness and gloom, unless " from the soul itself there issues forth a light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud enveloping the earth." But let that light shine forth, and the darkness shall be as the noonday, and the desert shall rejoice... | |
| Thomas Krusche - Idealism - 1987 - 384 pages
...inanimate cold world allowed To the poor loveless ever-anxious crowd, Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair 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... | |
| Hugh J. Silverman, Donn Welton - Philosophy - 1988 - 272 pages
...culture. Consider the following lines from Coleridge's "Dejection: An Ode": Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair 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... | |
| Robert Weisbuch - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 364 pages
...alone does Nature 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 the earth — (47-49, 53-55) is perfectly met by the Thoreau who argues that architectural beauty "has gradually... | |
| 1992 - 312 pages
...inanimate cold world allowed To the poor loveless ever-anxious crowd, Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair 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... | |
| David Norton - Bible - 1993 - 512 pages
...inanimate cold wotld allowed To the poor loveless ever-anxious crowd, Ah! from the soul irself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth And from the soul irself must there he sent A sweet and potent voice, of irs own hirth, Of all sweet... | |
| Willard Spiegelman - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 234 pages
...inanimate cold world allowed To the poor loveless ever- anxious crowd, Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth — 55 And from the soul itself must there be sent A sweet and potent voice, of its own birth, Of all... | |
| Warren Stevenson - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 166 pages
...inanimate cold world allowed To the poor loveless ever-anxious crowd, Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth— And from the soul it self must there be sent A sweet and potent voice, of its own birth, Of all sweet... | |
| Morton D. Paley - English poetry - 1999 - 164 pages
...peculiarly Coleridgean meaning. In DeIection: An Ode the poet tells the Lady: Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud; Enveloping the Earth — (ll. 53-5)In both contexts 'glory' suggests the aureole or nimbus radiating from a f1gure in sacred... | |
| Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...(1809-1892) British poet. "In Memoriam AHH," cto. 59, St. 1 (1850). Soul 1 Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, (1772-1834) British poet, critic. "Dejection: An Ode," St. 4, Morning Post... | |
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