 They sin who tell us Love can die. With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. In Heaven Ambition cannot dwell, Nor Avarice in the vaults of Hell; Earthly these passions of the Earth, They perish where they have their birth ; But Love...  The curse of Kehama - Page 107by Robert Southey - 1811Full view - About this book
 | English literature - 1827 - 574 pages
...Proem to the Port's Pilgrimage to Waterloo. " They sin who tell us love can die.' " With life all oiher passions fly, " All others are but vanity. ' " In...passions of the earth, " They perish where they have their birth ; " But love is indestructible. " Its holy flame for ever bumeth, " From heaveri it came,... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...sympathies of kindred blood, yet they breathe the etherial essence of the love that is indestructible : They sin who tell us Love can die, With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. Earthly, these passions are of earth, They pcrish where they find their birth, But Love is indestructible:... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - Children's poetry - 1828 - 408 pages
...stands forth unveiled with cloudless brow. On earth ONE SPIRIT OP LIFE, in heaven ONE. HEAVENLY LOVE. They sin who tell us Love can die. With life all other...passions of the earth, They perish where they have their birtl) But Love is indestructible. Its holy flame for ever burneth, 1'Vom heaven it game, to... | |
 | Robert Walsh - American essays - 1828 - 564 pages
...never intrude. Truth there is, as well as beauty, in the lines of one of his favourite poets:— " They sin who tell us love can die, With life all other...passions of the earth, They perish where they have their birth -, But love is indestructible. Its holy flame for ever burneth; from heaven it came, to... | |
 | Religious poetry - 1828 - 198 pages
...neither winds nor stormy main Force back my shatter'd bark again. COWPEB. LOVE NEVER i A II. KI II. They sin who tell us love can die, With life all other...these passions of the earth, They perish where they had their birth, But love is indestructible. Its holy flame for ever burneth, From heaven it came,... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - English poetry - 1828 - 430 pages
...gentle will, And who shall reprehend it ? Knight's Quarterly Magazine. W. LOVE. BY II. SOUTHEY, ESQ. THEY sin who tell us love can die ; — With life...in the vaults of hell ; — Earthly these passions as of earth, They perish when they have their birth ; But love is indestructible, — Its holy flame... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - English poetry - 1828 - 498 pages
...gentle will, And who shall reprehend it ? Knight's Quarterly Magazine. W. LOVE. BY R. SOUTHEY, ESQ. THEY sin who tell us love can die ; — With life...in the vaults of hell ; — Earthly these passions as of earth, They perish when they have their birth ; But love is indestructible, — Its holy flame... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - English poetry - 1828 - 422 pages
...gentle will, And who shall reprehend it? Knight's Quarterly Magazine. Vf. LOVE. BY K. BOUTHEY, ES<J. THEY sin who tell us love can die ;-— With life...in the vaults of hell ; — Earthly these passions as of earth, They perish when they have their birth ; But love is indestructible, — Its holy flame... | |
 | Christian poetry, English - 1828 - 398 pages
...given— nor peace alone, Bat faith, and hope, and eestacy ! WORDSWORTH. LOVE. riOU THE CURSE OP EEHAMAH. THEY sin who tell us Love can die. With life all other...avarice in the vaults of hell. Earthly these passions, are of earth, They perish where they have their birth. But Love is indestructible ; Its holy flame... | |
 | 1828 - 732 pages
...beauty, in the lines of one of his favourite poets: — " They sin who tell us love can die, With life Ml other passions fly, All others are but vanity. In...passions of the earth, They perish where they have their birth ; But love is indestructible. Its holy flame for ever Inirneth ; From heaven it came, to... | |
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