 | Margaret Fuller - 1860 - 486 pages
...starless lake of blue ; I see them all, so excellently fair, I sec, not feel, how beautiful they arc! My genial spirits fail, And what can these avail To lift the smothering weight from off my breast t It were a vain endeavour, Though I should gaze for ever On that green light that lingers in the West,... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1861 - 384 pages
...we give, And in our life alone does nature live : Ours is her wedding garment, ours, her shroud. ' It were a vain endeavor, Though I should gaze forever...passion and the life whose fountains are within.' This was one, and the most common shape of extinguished power, from which Coleridge fled to the great... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1861 - 390 pages
...see, notjeel how beautiful they are ! III. It were a vain endeavour, Though I should gaze for ever On that green light that lingers in the west : I may...passion and the life, whose fountains are within. IV. 0 Lady ! we receive but what we give, And in our life alone does nature live : Ours is her wedding-garment,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1861 - 580 pages
...date, or a time not much later, all that we can give is a portion of the ode entitled Dejection : — My genial spirits fail ; And what can these avail...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... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...starless lake of blue ; 1 see them all so excellently fair, I see, not feel how beautiful they are ! My genial spirits fail ; And what can these avail To lift the smothering weight from off my breast 1 It were a vain endeavour, Though I should gaze for ever On that green light that lingers in the west... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...the mind to arrive at its highest good. Charle» Bray. F EELLVO3 — tincturing the internal World. ! may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within. 0 Ludy ! we receive but what we give, Aid in our life alone does nature live : 'J irs is her wedding... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1863 - 272 pages
...is her wedding-garment, ours her shroud. " It were a vain endeavour, Though I should gaze for ever On that green light that lingers in the west : I may...passion and the life whose fountains are within." This was one, and the most common shape of extinguished power from which Coleridge fled to the great... | |
 | Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1863 - 510 pages
...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...passion and the life, whose fountains are within. rv. O Lady ! we receive but what we give, And in our life alone does nature live : Ours is her wedding-garment,... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1863 - 270 pages
...is her wedding-garment, ours her shroud. " It were a vain endeavour, Though I should gaze for ever On that green light that lingers in the west : I may...passion and the life whose fountains are within." This was one, and the most common shape of extinguished power from which Coleridge fled to the great... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1864 - 720 pages
...starless lake of bine ; 1 see them all so excellently fair, I see, not feel how beautiful they are ! HI. My genial spirits fail ; And what can these avail...the west : I may not hope from outward forms to win i The passion and the life, whose fountains are within • IV. O Lady ! we receive but what we give,... | |
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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. 
