God gives us love; something to love He lends us; but, when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve • Falls off, and love is left alone. This is the curse of time ' — But still — " Tis better to hare loved and lost, Than never to have... Spare Hours, by John Brown - Página 170por John Brown - 1884 - 458 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
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...not 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;...which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone.' Ten years make many changes in this way, yet ten years are but the merest fraction in the life of a... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1833 - 184 páginas
...laps our limbs are nurst, Fall into shadow, soonest lost : Those we love first are taken first. IV. God gives us love. Something to love He lends us ;...which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone. v. This is the curse of time. Alas ! In grief I am not all unlearned : Once thro' mine own doors Death... | |
| Elizabeth Palmer Peabody - 1841 - 146 páginas
...not think I use the word illusion bitterly—it is by illusion that our finite nature is drawn on. " God gives us love. Something to love He lends us ;...which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone." What are these illusions, if we examine them? Are they not the offspring and the expression of faith... | |
| Album - 1841 - 158 páginas
...of Paradise. Sure then, thy sweetness might a mortal move And win at once to more than mortal love. God gives us Love. Something to love He lends us ;...which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone ! TENNYSON. L'ABSENCE ET LE RETOUR. Il faut l'avoir connu l'affreux malheur de vivre loin de ce qu'on... | |
| Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1842 - 490 páginas
...those we lean on most, Those in whose laps our limbs are nursed, Fall into shadow, soonest lost: IT. God gives us love. Something to love He lends us ;...which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone. T. This is the curse of time. Alas ! In grief I am not all unlearn'd ; Once thro' mine own doors Death... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1843 - 260 páginas
...that those we lean on most, Those in whose laps our limbs are nursed. Fall into shadow, soonest lost: gives us love. Something to love He lends us ; but,...and love is left alone. This is the curse of time. Alas ! In grief I am not all unlearn'd ; Once thro' mine own doors Death did pass ; One went, who never... | |
| 1845 - 608 páginas
...J. A, on the occasion, as we learn from the poem itself, of the loss of a dear brother. ' God give us love. Something to love He lends us ; but, when...and love is left alone. ' This is the curse of time. Alas! In grief I am not all unlearned ; Once thro' mine own doors death did pass ; One went who never... | |
| Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 páginas
...most, Those in whose laps our limbs are nursed, Fall into shadow, soonest lost: TO JS -215 IV. trod gives us love. Something to love He lends us; but,...which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone. V. This is the curse of time. Alas! In grief I am not all unlearn 'd; Once thro' mine own doors Death... | |
| 1845 - 614 páginas
...another's depth of feeling Î GOD gives us Love. Something to lovi He lends us ; but when love is grow To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off and love is left alone ! T, L'ABSENCE ET LE RETOUR. IL faut l'avoir connu l'affreux malheur de vi ce qu'on aime, pour pouvoir... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1846 - 252 páginas
...those we lean on most, Those in whose laps our limbs are nursed, Fall into shadow, soonest lost: IV. God gives us love. Something to love He lends us ;...which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone. • v. This is the curse of time. Alas! In grief I am not all unlearn'd ; Once thro' mine own doors... | |
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