 | Album - 1841 - 158 pages
...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...which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone ! TENNYSON. L' ABSENCE ET LE RETOUR. II faut l'avoir connu I'affreux malheur de vivre loin de ce qu'on... | |
 | Elizabeth Palmer Peabody - Teaching - 1841 - 146 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 252 pages
...but, when love is grown To ripeness, that on 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 did pass ; One went, who never hath return'd. He will not... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1843 - 260 pages
...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...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 hath return'd. He will... | |
 | American periodicals - 1871 - 878 pages
...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...which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone." The poem, though philosophic in intention, is idyllic, because the philosophy is pictorial, and the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
...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...which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone. v. This is the curse of tune. Alas ! In grief I am not all unlearn 'd ; Once thro' mine own doors Death... | |
 | Love poetry - 1841 - 178 pages
...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...which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone. MAY-EVE; OR, KATE OF ABERDEEN. THE silver moon's enamour'd beam Steals softly through the night, To... | |
 | English literature - 1845 - 614 pages
...its minutest part, More than another's depth of feeling ? Li GOD gives us Love. Something to lovt, He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls uff and love is left alone ! TEX L'ABSENCE ET LE RETOUR. IL faut l'avoir connu l'affreux malheur de... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1846 - 252 pages
...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...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... | |
 | 1873 - 500 pages
...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...which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone." TENNYSON. IT was so late when Virginia returned from her walk, that she had barely time to make the... | |
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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. 
