They sin who tell us Love can die. With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. In Heaven Ambition cannot dwell, Nor Avarice in the vaults of Hell; Earthly these passions of the Earth, They perish where they have their birth ; But Love... American Monthly Knickerbocker - Seite 304herausgegeben von - 1844Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Mrs. Hemans - 1840 - 372 Seiten
...falling, When heaven its own is calling, Know then, thy guide is nigh ! II.— OH! DROOP THOU NOT. "They sin who tell us love can die, With life all other passions fly; All others are but vanity. In heaven ambition cannot dwell, Nor avarice in the vaults of hell. Earthly these passions, as of earth... | |
| Benjamin Dorr - 1840 - 110 Seiten
...heaven's gate, To meet and welcome me." CAROLINE BOWLES. " LOVE NEVER FAILETH." St. Paul. They Bin who tell us LOVE can die, With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. In heaven ambition cannot dwell, Nor avarice in the vaults of hell ; Earthly these passions of the... | |
| Henry Bacon - 1840 - 228 Seiten
...it true — true as though God uttered it in every human ear — that true affection never dies. " They sin who tell us love can die — With life all other passions fly ; But this — a flame that ever burneth — From heaven it came, to heaven returneth." And it returns... | |
| Benjamin Davis Winslow - 1841 - 410 Seiten
...not well believe that it now springs, immortal, as his redeemed, transformed and glorious nature. " They sin who tell us love can die ; With life all...passions fly, All others are but vanity ; " " But love ie indestructible, Its holy flame forever burneth, , From Heaven it came, to Heaven returneth."2 From... | |
| Album - 1841 - 158 Seiten
...All joys but thine and blest Religion's die, The king of woes, pride-humbling poverty ! E. ELLIOTT. They sin, who tell us Love can die : With life all other passions fly ; All others are but vanity. In heaven Ambition cannot dwell, Nor Avarice in the vaults of hell. Earthly these passions of the earth,... | |
| Gems - 1841 - 624 Seiten
...holds the situation of poet laureate, which post he has enjoyed for nearly thirty years. LOVE. THBY sin who tell us love can die ; With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. In heaven ambition cannot dwell, Nor avarice in the vaults of hell : Earthly these passions, as of... | |
| William Johnson Fox - 1841 - 132 Seiten
...eternity can prove ; Both men and angels, worms and gods, Exist in universal love. THEY sin who tefl us love can die ; With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. In heaven ambition cannot dwell, Nor avarice in the haunts of hell ; Earthly these passions of the... | |
| 1842 - 504 Seiten
...Thrill'd every bosom, and the family Of man, for once, partook one common joy. IMMORTALITY OF LOVE. They sin who tell us Love can die. With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity; In Heaven ambition cannot dwell, Nor avarice in the vaults of hell : Earthly these passions of the... | |
| 1843 - 744 Seiten
...This moment hath to him restored By Death alone to others given, The early lost, the long-deplored. " They sin who tell us Love can die. With life all other passions fly, All otherg are but vanity. In Heaven ambition cannot dwell, Nor avarice in the vaults of Hell; Earthiy... | |
| Willis Gaylord Clark - 1844 - 486 Seiten
...dust the curtained grave is closing — Who would not early choose a lot like this 1 A LAMENT. THET sin, who tell us love can die; With life all other...vanity: But love is indestructible: Its holy flame for ever burneth ; From heaven it came — to heaven retnmeth : Too oft on earth a troubled guest,... | |
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