Tis strange that those we lean on most, Those in whose laps our limbs are nursed, Fall into shadow, soonest lost : Those we love first are taken first. God gives us love. Something to love He lends us ; but, when love is grown To ripeness, that on which... A Dream of Fair Women, and Other Poems - Seite 25von Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1895 - 96 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Richard Donkersley - 1867 - 276 Seiten
...about which he had felt so solicitous had fled forever. This was the only casualty that took place. " God gives us love. Something to love He lends us ;...which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone." HONESTY EEWAEDED. BotrERiENNB, a distinguished French officer in the days of Napoleon I., going one... | |
| Richard Simpson - 1868 - 98 Seiten
...waste of time. But the doctrine of the old sonnet writers was not that of Mr. Tennyson. He sings : — God gives us love ; something to love He lends us*...which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone. They, on the contrary, held that when one object fell off, it only revealed a better and higher object... | |
| 1868 - 438 Seiten
...simile, " Or we might use the poet's illustration," she said, a soft flush mantling in her cheek : " ' GOD gives us love. Something to love He lends us ;...which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone.' " " An apt quotation, my daughter. Has Sister Christine any more objections ?" " One more, my Father,"... | |
| S D. N - 1868 - 558 Seiten
...simile, " Or we might use the poet's illustration," she said, a soft flush mantling in her cheek : " ' GOD gives us love. Something to love He lends us ;...which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone.' " " An apt quotation, my daughter. Has Sister Christine any more objections ?" " One more, my Father,"... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1869 - 658 Seiten
...had not dared to flow In these words toward you, and invade Even with a verse your holy woe. "T is strange that those we lean on most, Those in whose...love is left alone. This is the curse of time. Alas I In grief I am not all unlearn'd ; Once thro' mine own doors Death did pass ; One went, who never... | |
| 1869 - 680 Seiten
...to be beloved, but better still it is to love, as your favourite poet has since expressed it — ' God gives us love. Something to love He lends us;...which it throve Falls off — and love is left alone.' But though love was in one sense left alone, in another and higher it can never be alone. I say all... | |
| 1869 - 636 Seiten
...to be beloved, but better still it is to love, as your favourite poet has since expressed it — ' God gives us love. Something to love He lends us ;...which it throve Falls off— and love is left alone.' But though love was in one sense left alone, in another and higher it can never be alone. I say all... | |
| John Richard Vernon - 1869 - 384 Seiten
...have borne the nobler fruit it bears for men, unless it had been thus trained upwards towards God. " God gives us love. Something to love He lends us ;...which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone." Alone, and yet its very existence is society. The blossom-petals sailed down, in the summer air ; but... | |
| 1869 - 636 Seiten
...to be beloved, but better still it is to love, as your favourite poet has since expressed it — 1 God gives us love. Something to love He lends us ;...which it throve Falls off — and love is left alone.' But though love was in one sense left alone, in another and higher it can never be alone. I say all... | |
| Epitaphs - 1869 - 216 Seiten
...their cause to plead, For whom the pains of death he bore. W OD gives us love. Something to love c3> He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that...which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone. • LEST in life, revered in memory. by His hand, supported by His care, I scarce can doubt; why then... | |
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