 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
 | 1866 - 394 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... | |
 | 1866 - 864 pages
...beautifiilly in his " Ode on Dejection," — " Oh, lady, we receive but what we give ; And in our Jife alone does Nature live : Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud. And would we ought of higher birth behold Than that inanimate cold world allowed To the poor, anxious, ever-restless... | |
 | 1866 - 638 pages
...in his " Ode on Dejection," — " Oh, lady, we receive but what we give ; And in our life alone dots Nature live : Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud. And would we aught of higher birth behold Than that inanimate cold world allowed To the poor, anxious, ever-restless crowd... | |
 | 1868 - 624 pages
...Lady! we receive but what we give, And in our life alone docs Nature live; Ours is her wedding-garment, ours her shroud! And would we aught behold, of higher...allowed To the poor loveless ever anxious crowd, Ah 1 from the soul itself must issue forth, A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the earth—... | |
 | Anonymous - 1868 - 602 pages
...west : I may not hope from outward forms to win Tho 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... | |
 | 1868 - 846 pages
...: I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within. 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 cold... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1868 - 714 pages
...may not hope from outward forms to win The 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, ours her shroud ! And would we aught behold, of higher worth, Than that inanimate... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1869 - 204 pages
...what can these avail To lift tlio smothering weight from off my breast ? It were a vain endeavour, 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... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1870 - 684 pages
...a man with good eyes is shut up in a dark room. It is of this the poet speaks, when he says : — " 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... | |
 | George Macdonald - 1871 - 246 pages
...conviction that my present dislike would soon grow to loathing, I took my dreary way through the wood. IX. O Lady ! we receive but what we give. And in our life...live : Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud ! * * * * Ah 1 from the soul itself must issue forth, A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud. Enveloping... | |
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