 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1817 - 334 sider
...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, ours her shroud ! And would we aught behold, of higher worth, Than that inanimate cold world allow'd To the poor loveless... | |
 | 1844 - 634 sider
...the truth contained in Coleridge's beautiful lines is overlooked : " 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 allow'd To the poor, loveless,... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 sider
...MX genial spirits fail, And what can these avail. To lift the smoth'ring weight from off mj breast? 蕯* t liai lingers in the « • • ' : may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1828 - 374 sider
...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, ours her shroud ! And would we aught behold, of higher worth, Than that inanimate cold world allowed To the poor loveless... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 sider
...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 cold world allowed To the poor loveless,... | |
 | 1834 - 896 sider
...My genial spirits fail ; And what can these avail To lift the smothering weight from off my breast ? It were a vain endeavour, Though I should gaze for ever On that green light that lingers in the nest : I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains art within.... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans - 1834 - 284 sider
...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, ours her shroud ! And would we aught behold of higher worth Than that inanimate cold world allowed To the poor, loveless,... | |
 | 1834 - 512 sider
...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, ours her shroud ! And would we aught behold of higher worth, Than that inanimate cold world allowed To the poor loveless... | |
 | 1837 - 638 sider
...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 cold world allowed To the poor loveless... | |
 | Joseph Cottle - 1837 - 370 sider
...though without reference to, or recollection of, the above. 0 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 allow'd To the poor, loveless,... | |
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Lady ! we receive but what we give, And in our life alone does Nature live; Ours is her wedding-garment, ours her shroud... 
