 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.  Art, Literature, and the Drama - Page 86by Margaret Fuller - 1860 - 449 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1857 - 426 pages
...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,... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 466 pages
...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-garment,... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 448 pages
...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-garment,... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 454 pages
...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-garment,... | |
 | 1857 - 336 pages
...lift the smothering weight from on my breast ? It were a vain endeavour, Though I should gaze forever On that green light that lingers in the west. I may...passion and the life, whose fountains are within." In another strain of the same ode the important imaginative truth is set forth : — " From the soul... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1857 - 432 pages
...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...lingers in the west : I may not hope from outward forma to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within. O Lady ! we receive but what we... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 424 pages
...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 west. 1 may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within." In... | |
 | Timothy Shay Arthur - 1857 - 348 pages
...trampled it out, with the crushing strokes of his iron heel ! CHAPTER VI. $ flisit 10 barton Street. " I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life whose fountains are within." COLERIDGE. MR. HARDY lifted in his arms the insensible body of his wife, and laid it upon the bed.... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 242 pages
...were a vain endeavour, Though I should gaze forever On that green light thr.t lingers in the WestI may not hope, from outward forms, to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within. • iii * From the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud, Enveloping... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1858 - 792 pages
...lift the smothering weight from off my breast ? It were a vain endeavor, Though I should gaze forever On that green light that lingers in the west : I may...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,... | |
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