| 1868 - 438 Seiten
...poet's illustration," she said, a soft flush mantling in her cheek : " ' GOD gives us love. Something to love He lends us ; but, when love is grown To ripeness,...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 - 1868 - 402 Seiten
...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,...which it throve Falls off, 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... | |
| S D. N - 1868 - 558 Seiten
...poet's illustration," she said, a soft flush mantling in her cheek : " ' GOD gives us love. Something to love He lends us ; but, when love is grown To ripeness,...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,"... | |
| 1869 - 680 Seiten
...still it is to love, as your favourite poet has since expressed it — ' God gives us love. Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness,...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
...still it is to love, as your favourite poet has since expressed it — 1 God gives us love. Something to love He lends us ; but when love is grown To ripeness,...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
...still it is to love, as your favourite poet has since expressed it — ' God gives us love. Something to love He lends us ; but when love is grown To ripeness,...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
...bears for men, unless it had been thus trained upwards towards God. " God gives us love. Something to love He lends us ; but when love is grown To ripeness,...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... | |
| 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... | |
| 1869 - 450 Seiten
...HOMES. I. THE LONELY HOME. " God gives us love : something to love He lendt us ; and, when love has grown To ripeness, that on which it throve falls off, and love is left alone." — Tennyson. A is a secluded, lovely spot on the coast of one of the southern English counties. One... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1870 - 208 Seiten
...umbras; Quae prima accepit prima remittit amor. God gives us lore. Something to love He lends us; bat, when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls oS, and love is left alone. fxmt. Sensibus inseruit nostris Deus au<5tor amorem, Pabula poscit amor,... | |
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