 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...  the works - Page 233by mrs hemans - 1839Full view - About this book
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 454 pages
...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...own birth, Of all sweet sounds the life and element ! O pure of heart ! thou need'st not ask of me What this strong music in the soul may be ! What, and... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 448 pages
...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...own birth, Of all sweet sounds the life and element ! O pure of heart ! thou need'st not ask of me What this strong music in the soul may be ! What, and... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1857 - 432 pages
...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...own birth, Of all sweet sounds the life and element ! O pure of heart ! thou need'st not ask of me What this strong music in the soul may be ! What, and... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 466 pages
...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...own birth, Of all sweet sounds the life and element ! O pure of heart ! thou need'st not ask of me What this strong music in the soul may be ! What, and... | |
 | 1857 - 336 pages
...are within." In another strain of the same ode the important imaginative truth is set forth : — " From the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory,...birth, Of all sweet sounds the life and element." When Coleridge's poetry gives forth " This light, this glory, this fair, luminous mist, This beautiful... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 242 pages
...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,...birth — Of all sweet sounds the life and element !" But if the fountain of the life within be not only darkened with dejection, but turbid with evil... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1857 - 426 pages
...behold, of higher worth, Than that inanimate cold world allowed To the poor loveless ever-anxious crowd, Enveloping the Earth — And from the soul itself...own birth, Of all sweet sounds the life and element ! v. O pure of heart ! thou need'st not ask of me What this strong music in the soul may be ! What,... | |
 | John Baillie - 1857 - 380 pages
...one day he shall " Strike the lyre To nobler themes." CHAPTER III. " From the soul itself there must be sent A sweet and potent voice, of its own birth, Of all sweet sounds the life and element." The Missionary's Grave.— The Slave.—" Son of a Missionary." — Solitary Hours — "A Clerk."—... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 424 pages
...a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the earth. And from the soul itself must there be sent A sweet aud potent voice of its own birth, Of all sweet sounds the life and element." When Coleridge's poetry gives forth " This light, this glory, this fair, luminous mist, This beautiful... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1858 - 792 pages
...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...own birth, Of all sweet sounds the life and element ! v. O pure of heart ; thou need'st not ask of me What this strong music in the soul may be ! What,... | |
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