 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!...  Rousseau and Romanticism - Page 303by Irving Babbitt - 1919 - 426 pagesFull view - About this book
 | England - 1834 - 918 pages
...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- garment, ours her shroud ! And would we aught behold, of higher worth, Than that inanimate... | |
 | Theology - 1836 - 698 pages
...graceful wreaths, new-creating that earth which to another is but a bleak and cheerless dwelling-place. ' Would we aught behold of higher worth Than that inanimate cold world allowed To the poor loveless, ever anxious crowd, Ah ! from the soul itself must issun forth A light,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1828 - 374 pages
...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...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 light,... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...' : may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within. O wedding -garment, our* her shroud ! And would we aught behold of higher worth. Than that inanimate... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 575 pages
...within. IV. О Lady ! we receive but whal we give, • And in our life alone does nature live : Oui* be allowed To the poor loveless ever -anxious crowd, Ah ! from the »oui itself must issue forth, A light,... | |
 | 1830 - 550 pages
...receive but wh«t we give, And in our Life alone do^s Nnture live : Ours is her weddi ritr-earment, ours her shroud ! And would we aught behold, of higher worth Than that inanimate cold world, allow 41 To the poor, loveless, ever-anxious crowd; Ah ! from the »oui itself must issue forth A light,... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 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 allowed To the poor loveless, ever-anxious crowd, Ah ! from the soul itself must issue forth, A light,... | |
 | 1834 - 512 pages
...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...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 light,... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans - Religious poetry, English - 1834 - 284 pages
...receive thy child, Take back the lost and found ! A THOUGHT OF PARADISE. We receive but what we give, And in our life alone does nature live : Ours is her wedding-garment,...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 light,... | |
 | Scotland - 1834 - 896 pages
...I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains art within. " 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... | |
| |
