 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1817 - 330 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 allow'd To the poor loveless ever-anxious crowd, Ah ! from the soul itself must issue forth, A light,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1844 - 634 pages
...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,...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 The light,... | |
 | 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, a glory, u fair luminous cloud... | |
 | 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 her wedding-garment, ours her shroud ! And would we...inanimate cold world allowed To the poor loveless ever -anxious crowd, Ah ! from the »oui itself must issue forth, A light, a glory, a fair luminous... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 1834 - 864 pages
...I may not hope from eutward 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 cold... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1837 - 638 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...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... | |
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To the poor loveless ever-anxious crowd, Ah ! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a 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 sweet sounds... 
