 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: I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion...  The Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Page 158by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1873 - 420 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Frederick William Robertson - 1859 - 372 pages
...all others, and colour all things with its own hue. In some measure this is true of us all. " I mar not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within. O Ladr ! we receive but what we give, And in our life alone does nature live : Ours is her wedding... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1860 - 312 pages
...starless lake of blue: I see them all so excellently fair; I see, not feel, how beautiful they are. « My genial spirits fail; And what can these avail To...breast ? It were a vain endeavour, Though I should gaze forever On that green light that lingers in the west. I may not hope from outward forms to win The... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1860 - 322 pages
...starless lake of blue : I see them all so excellently fair ; I see, not feel, how beautiful they are. " My genial spirits fail ; And what can these avail...the smothering weight from off my breast ? It were a rain endeavour, Though I should gaze forever On that green light that lingers in the west. I may not... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1860 - 348 pages
...if his mind be world-rusted and insensible. 1 It were a vain endeavor Though I should gaze forever On that green light that lingers in the west ; I may not hope from outward forma to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.' And hence the extreme and melancholy... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1861 - 390 pages
...starless lake of blue ; 1 see them all so excellently fair, I see, notjeel how beautiful they are ! III. It were a vain endeavour, Though I should gaze for...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,... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1861 - 384 pages
...Ours is her wedding garment, ours, her shroud. ' 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.' This was one, and the most common shape of extinguished power, from which Coleridge fled to the great... | |
 | 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... | |
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