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. Throstle's Nest - Страница 83написао/ла Athyria (pseud.) - 1881Пуни преглед - О овој књизи
| Elizabeth Palmer Peabody - 1841 - 146 страница
...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 ; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone." What are these illusions,... | |
| Album - 1841 - 158 страница
...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 ; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone ! TENNYSON. L' ABSENCE... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1843 - 260 страница
...laps our limbs are nursed, Fall into shadow, soonest lost : Those we love first are taken first. IT. 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... | |
| 1871 - 878 страница
...philosophy of the poem is that which the poet afterwards so tersely expressed in the stanza : — •' 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." The poem, though... | |
| Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 страница
...laps our limhs are nursed, Fall into shadow, soonest lost : Those we love first are taken first. Iv. 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. v. This is the curse... | |
| 1841 - 178 страница
...he came a pilf'ring so, He shou'd from her full lips derive Hony enough to fill his hive. HEERICK. 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. MAY-EVE; OR, KATE... | |
| 1873 - 500 страница
...depends on their labour. THE PAST XLIV.] THIRD SERIES. [AUGUST, 1873. WAITING A MAIL. CHAPTER IV. " 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." TENNYSON. IT was... | |
| Sarah Carter Edgarton Mayo - 1849 - 334 страница
...communication was taken away, her friendships still remained, not only undiminished, but more pure. ' 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.' In her spirit, love... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 276 страница
...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 ; but, when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone. v. This is the curse... | |
| 1851 - 604 страница
...come back to me." " О for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still !" " 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 curee... | |
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