 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 ever-anxious crowd, Ah! from...  A biographical history of English literature - Page 505by John Daniel Morell - 1885Full view - About this book
 | 1845 - 732 pages
...bit of music : — We receive but what we give, And in our life alone does Nature live ; Ours is hsr { { iuanimato cold world, allowed To the poor, InvRlr.ss, ever anxious crowd ? Ah ! from the soul itself... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 pages
...I may not hope from outward forms to 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... | |
 | 1847 - 610 pages
...Nature " we have only to " go and look at her." " 0 lady, we receive hut what we give, And in our life does Nature live ; Ours is her wedding garment, ours...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,... | |
 | 1847 - 610 pages
..." go and look at her." " O lady, we receive but what we give, And in our life does Nature live ; R2 Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud ! And...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,... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...I 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 alone does nature live : Ours is her wedding-garment, ours her shroud ! And would we aught behold, of higher worth, Than that inanimate... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1847 - 382 pages
...us, when there is a mind at peace within us. Coleridge's words are as true as they are beautiful. " 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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1847 - 310 pages
...may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within. rv. 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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1848 - 406 pages
...I 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 alone does nature live : Ours is her wedding-garment, ours her shroud ! And would we aught behold, of higher worth, Than that inanimate... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1849 - 578 pages
...receive but what we give, Aod in our life alone does nature live • 49 Dura i> her wedding-garment, cure her shroud ! And would we aught behold, of higher worth, Than that inanimate cold world allow'd To ihe |«or loveless ever-ansious crowd, Ah ! from the soul itself must issue forth, Л light,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1850 - 764 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,... | |
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