 True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven : It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly ; It liveth not in fierce desire, With dead desire it doth not die ; It is the secret sympathy, The silver link,...  Glimpses of a Strange World - Page 172by Henry Sandé Stollnitz - 1908 - 202 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1848 - 466 pages
...True love's the gift which God his giv'n To man alone, beneath the heav'n ; It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, la body and in soul can bind." HAPPY love, though the most delightful in reality, is the most uninteresting... | |
 | John Struthers - English Poetry - 1850 - 320 pages
...granted fly; It liveth not in fierce desire, With dead desire it doth not die. It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, In body and in soul can bind." SIR WALTEK SCOTT. The young man, in the meantime, laid aside his locomotive dreaming, and became not... | |
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - Church and education - 1850 - 814 pages
...discuss it. It liveth not in fierce desire, With dead desire it doth not die. It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, In body and in soul can bind." III. However excellent the lady of your choice may be, and however ardently you may love her, do not... | |
 | Lady of Rhode Island - Gift books - 1850 - 158 pages
...never be banished from my recollection." — DICK. THE LADIES OF LLANGOLLEN. IT is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart...and mind to mind In body and in soul can bind.— SCOTT. THERE are few who have not heard of the Ladies of Llangollen ; perhaps a short account of whom... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1852 - 594 pages
...fly; It liveth not in fierce desire, With dead desire it doth not die : It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind9 In body and in soul can bind. — Now leave we Margaret and her Knight, To tell you of the approaching... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1853 - 442 pages
...to heaven. Milton. LOVE. True love's the gift which God hath given, To man alone beneath the heaven. The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, In body and in soul can bind. Scott. Reason and love oft keep not company, It is most happy when they are made friends. Shakspeare.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1854 - 892 pages
...in fierce desire, With dead desire it doth not die ; . It is the secret sympathy, The silver link,1 the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, In body and in soul can bind. — Now leave we Margaret and her Knight, To tell you of the approaching fight. XIV. Their warning... | |
 | Mrs. J. Thayer - Gift books - 1853 - 144 pages
...hath giTen To man alone beneath the heaven. It is the secret sympathy The silver link, the silken He, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, In body and in soul can bind. SIR WALTER SCOTT. Parting1. HEAR ! 'tis for this I stay — To say we part — forever part : But oh... | |
 | Eliza Rooke - 1854 - 200 pages
...my fate ; though I never consent to resign the treasure. There is," added the Major, " That silver, silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, In body and soul can find." Laura, at that moment, hearing voices in the drawing-room, entered, and inquired, "... | |
 | American poetry - 1855 - 248 pages
...SCOTT. Love is a gift which God hath givc;i To man alone beneath the heaven. It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind In body and in soul can bind. FEW NOBLE.' BOWE. How few like thee, inquire the wretched oiu And court the offices of soft humanity,... | |
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