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. The British Poets - Page 271866Full view - About this book
| New Church gen. confer - 1868 - 602 pages
...melodious lines : — " It were a Tain endeavour, Though I should gaze for ever, On that green light which lingers in the west. I may not hope from outward forms...passion and the life whose fountains are within." We must have in ourselves love and faith before rites can, like Bethesdean angels, stir the springs... | |
| 1834 - 918 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-... | |
| 1844 - 634 pages
...decided current? It might perhaps be urged, on the other side, that this would be in fact seeking " from outward forms to win The passion and the life whose fountains are within ," and that, in attributing any inspiring power to the object itself, the truth contained in Coleridge's... | |
| 1826 - 570 pages
...have left behind had I not. outlived all regrets — but one — for there, though ' I vainly sought from outward forms to win The passion and the life whose fountains are within, all feeling was not yet worn out of my heart: I was not then blinded nor stupified by sorrow and weakness... | |
| British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...MX genial spirits fail, And what can these avail. To lift the smoth'ring weight from off mj breast? 蕯* t liai lingers in the « • • ' : may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life,... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 575 pages
...spirits fail, And what can these avail To lift the smothering weight from off my breast? It were a vaiu endeavour, Though I should gaze for ever On that green...light that lingers in the west : I may not hope from oulv/ard forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within. IV. О Lady ! we receive... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1831 - 628 pages
...And what can these avail To lift the smothering weight from off my breast ? It were a vain endeavor, / U NDQ E Y 4 yl O P> K| k7 Ɍ*C< z (\U /7l S W KC... ,gV L/A x P ( Rp WMeO.6K jP(A , # ! y a u } 7 P t О Lady ! we receive but what we give, And in our lifo alone does nature live : 48 SIBYLLINE LEAVES.... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 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. O Lady ! we receive but what we give, And in our life alone does nature live: Ours is her wedding-garment,... | |
| 1834 - 512 pages
...And what can these avail To lift the smothering weight from off my breast ? My genial spirits fail; It were a vain endeavour, Though I should gaze for...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,... | |
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