 | New Church gen. confer - 1868 - 602 pages
...endeavour, Though I should gaze for ever, On that green light which lingers in the west. I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life whose fountains are within." We must have in ourselves love and faith before rites can, like Bethesdean angels, stir the springs... | |
 | 1834 - 918 pages
...vain endeavour, Though I should gaze for ever On that green light that lingers in the 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 alone does nature live : Ours is her wedding-... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1817 - 330 pages
...vain endeavor, Though I should ga/e for ever On that green light that lingers in the west : 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 alone does nature live : Ours is her wedding-garment,... | |
 | 1844 - 634 pages
...decided current? It might perhaps be urged, on the other side, that this would be in fact seeking " from outward forms to win The passion and the life whose fountains are within ," and that, in attributing any inspiring power to the object itself, the truth contained in Coleridge's... | |
 | 1826 - 570 pages
...have left behind had I not. outlived all regrets — but one — for there, though ' I vainly sought from outward forms to win The passion and the life whose fountains are within, all feeling was not yet worn out of my heart: I was not then blinded nor stupified by sorrow and weakness... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1828 - 374 pages
...vain endeavour, Though I should gaze for ever On that green light that lingers in the west : 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 alone does nature live : Ours is her wedding-garment,... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...endeavour, Though I should gaze for ever On that green light t liai lingers in the « • • ' : 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 alone does nature live : Ours is her wedding... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1831 - 628 pages
...vain endeavor, Though I should gaze for ever, On that green light that lingers in the west : I may not become A star among the stars of mortal night, If it indeed may cleave its natal glo IV. О Lady ! we receive but what we give, And in our lifo alone does nature live : 48 SIBYLLINE LEAVES.... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1834 - 312 pages
...fancy, must issue from our own souls, and be reflected back to us, else 'tis all in vain. " We may not hope from outward forms to win, • The passion and the life, whose fountains are within !" When Gray, the poet, visited Hardwicke, he fell at once into a very poet-like rapture, and did not... | |
 | 1834 - 512 pages
...vain endeavour, Though I should gaze for ever On that green light that lingers in the west: I may not hope from outward forms to 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,... | |
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Though I should gaze for ever On that green light that lingers in the west: I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within. 
