 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 and the life, whose fountains are within.  The Poems of S.T. Coleridge - Seite 229von Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1864 - 299 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | New Church gen. confer - 1868 - 602 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...fair, I see, not feel how beautiful they are I " My genial spirits fail ; And what can these avail To lift the smothering weight from off my breast ?...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...they are ! MX genial spirits fail, And what can these avail. To lift the smoth'ring weight from off mj breast? It were a vain endeavour, Though I should gaze for ever On that green light t liai lingers in the « • • ' : may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 575 Seiten
...fair, 1 see, not feel how beautiful they arc! III. My genial 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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1831 - 628 Seiten
...fair, I see, not feel, how beautiful they arc! III. My genial spirits fail, And what can these avail To lift the smothering weight from off my breast ? It were a vain endeavor, Though I should gaze for ever, On that green light that lingers in the west : I may not hope... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1834 - 594 Seiten
...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 ?...light that lingers in the west : I may not hope from eutward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within. ' O Lady ! we receive but... | |
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