 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
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1875 - 612 Seiten
...by removal but by death — the void left which time may help to bridge over, but never can fill. ' God gives us love. Something to love He lends us ;...that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alono.' Ten years make many changes in this way, yet ten years are but the merest fraction in the life... | |
 | Forbes Edward Winslow - 1875 - 172 Seiten
...into action the best and noblest qualities of our nature ; and then, when we have learnt our lesson, when " Love is grown to ripeness, That on which it throve falls off, And love is left alone ; " the earthly object of our affection is taken away, leaving the divine principle of love developed... | |
 | Minot Judson Savage - 1876 - 186 Seiten
...have and hold them forever. " God gives us love ; something to love He lends us ; but when love has grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone." IV. — LOST BLESSINGS NOT ALL LOST. And then, again, the life and joy of the past were no less blessings... | |
 | Minot Judson Savage - 1876 - 192 Seiten
...loss of the objects of our love, we are being trained into fitness to have and hold them forever. " God gives us love ; something to love He lends us ; but when love has grown To ripeness, that on which it throve , Falls off, and love is left alone." 27 IV. — LOST... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 Seiten
...— We love because we much have sinn'd, And much have been forgiven. 2346. LOVE. God's culture of O|R 0bQ [< ( Aݕ[ > bCh o $*Y [θz f4 \\voR uS P — Tawysm. 2347. LOVE. Growth of SMALL is the soul's first wound from beauty's dart, And scarce th'... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1877 - 392 Seiten
...li..-t are tuken H. -i. God gives ns love. Something to love He lends na ; hnt, when love is grosn To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone. This is the cnrse of time. Alas ! In grief I am not all nnlearn'd ; Once thro' mine own doors Death did pass; One... | |
 | Churchman - 1879 - 322 Seiten
...taheth me up.— PSALM xxvS. i2. • Tis strange that those we lean on most Those in whose laps (Jur limbs are nursed, Fall into shadow, soonest lost :...is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls otf, and love is left alone. ALFEED TENNYSON. KMBEK i7. j$t. $ugfi, Btsliop anB Conr frssor. NOYEMBEE... | |
 | M H S - 1879 - 392 Seiten
...for Jesus' sake. Amen. AS many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. REV. iii. 19. SOMETHING to love God lends us, but when love is grown To ripeness, that...which it throve Falls off : and love is left alone. TENNYSON. r\ MERCIFUL God, and heavenly Father, who hast '-' taught us in thy holy Word that thou dost... | |
 | 1879 - 524 Seiten
...shadow, soonest lost : Those we love first are taken first. God gives us love. Something to love lie lends us ; but, when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Fails off, and love is left alone. This is the curse of time. Alas ! ln grief l am not all unlearn'd... | |
 | Hugh Reginald Haweis - 1880 - 356 Seiten
...could say, without intruding too far into the sorrow of others or losing heart in one's own : — " Tis strange that those we lean on most, Those in whose...which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone. * * * * I knew your brother ; his mute dust I honour, and his living worth : A man more pure, and bold,... | |
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