 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 psl.
...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 psl.
...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,... | |
 | 1834 - 864 psl.
...they are ! ' 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...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... | |
 | 1834 - 896 psl.
...they are I " 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 nest : I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains art within.... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1834 - 670 psl.
...of fancy, must issue from our own souls, and be reflected back to us, else 'tis all in vain. H " We may not hope from outward forms to win, The passion and the life, whose fountains are within!" When Gray, the poet, visited Hardwicke, he fell at once into a very poet-like rapture, and did not... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1834 - 632 psl.
...have left behind, had I not outb'ved 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... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1834 - 292 psl.
...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 arc within ; all feeling was not yet worn out of my heart : I was not then blinded nor stupified by... | |
 | 1837 - 638 psl.
...Or gentle maid, our first and early love, Or father, or the venerable name Of our adored country." " 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-garment,... | |
 | lady Henrietta Georgiana M. Chatterton - 1837 - 716 psl.
...genial spirits fail, And what can these avail To lift the smothering weight from off my breast ! ****** I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within. COLERIDGE. .1 ON Saturday they went to the opera, and Matilda expected to derive more pleasure from... | |
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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. 
