 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 west: I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.  The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey - Side 195af Thomas De Quincey - 1889Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | New Church gen. confer - 1868 - 602 sider
...melodious lines : — " It were a Tain endeavour, Though I should gaze for ever, On that green light which lingers in the west. I may not hope from outward forms...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 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...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 - 334 sider
...And what can these avail, To lift the smoth'ring weight from off my breast ? It were a vain endeavor, Though I should gaze for ever On that green light...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,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1817 - 330 sider
...avail, To lift the smoth'ring weight from off my breast ? It were a vain endeavor, Though I should ga/e for ever On that green light that lingers in the west...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 sider
...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 sider
...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 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...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 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 - 1829 - 575 sider
...spirits fail, And what can these avail To lift the smothering weight from off my breast? It were a vaiu endeavour, Though I should gaze for ever On that green...light that lingers in the west : I may not hope from oulv/ard forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within. IV. О Lady ! we receive... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1831 - 628 sider
...And what can these avail To lift the smothering weight from off my breast ? It were a vain endeavor, d harvesters rich armful в lookSoon was he quieted to s IV. О Lady ! we receive but what we give, And in our lifo alone does nature live : 48 SIBYLLINE LEAVES.... | |
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