 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 English Poets - Page 124edited by - 1893Full view - About this book
 | 1868 - 600 pages
...win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within. O Lady ! we receive hut what we give, And in our life alone does Nature live ; Ours is her wedding-garment,...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... | |
 | 1868 - 602 pages
...aught behold, of higher worth, Thau that inanimate cold world allowed To the poor loveless ever anxious crowd, Ah ! from the soul itself must issue forth,...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 and element ! ' Of the poems... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1869 - 204 pages
...what can these avail To lift tlio smothering weight from off my breast ? It were a vain endeavour, O Lady ! we receive but what we give, And in our life...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... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - 1869 - 416 pages
...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...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 and element ! 0 pure of heart... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1870 - 684 pages
...a man with good eyes is shut up in a dark room. It is of this the poet speaks, when he says : — " 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, — Ah ! from the soul itself must issue forth A... | |
 | Asahel Clark Kendrick - 1871 - 484 pages
...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...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 and element ! SAMUEL T. COLERIDGE.... | |
 | Samuel Martin - 1871 - 586 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,...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 and element ! " That which... | |
 | 1872 - 710 pages
...would we aught behold of higher worth Than that inanimate, cold world, allowed To the poor loveliness, nd all my frien A sweet and potent voice of its own birth, Of all sweet sounds the life and clement ! ST Coleridge.... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1873 - 472 pages
...I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within. 1V. O Lady ! we receive but what we give, And in our life...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 and element ! v. O pure of... | |
 | Sumner Ellis - 1873 - 324 pages
...would we aught behold of higher worth, Than that inanimate cold world allowed To the poor, loveTess, ever-anxious crowd, Ah ! from the soul itself must...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 and element." Books, arts,... | |
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