 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
 | Hugh Gawthrop - Recitations - 1847 - 184 pages
...Same as ere to sleep I'd gone ; I my dream remember yet — Nor the moral will forget Editor. LOVE. THEY sin who tell us Love can die ; With life all...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... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - Elocution - 1847 - 344 pages
...skulk to our cells ] Or shall we boldly oppose him at his entrance 1 LESSON XCVIIL Love. — SOUTHEY. THEY sin who tell us love can die ; — With life all other passions fly, All others aie but vanity. In heaven ambition cannot dwell, Nor avarice in the vaults of hell ; — Earthly these... | |
 | Frances Power Cobbe - Authors, English - 1894 - 392 pages
...of such narrations is, that they contradict the great truth beautifully set forth by Southey — " They sin who tell us Love can die ! — With life...are but vanity — In Heaven, Ambition cannot dwell, Kor Avarice in the vaults of hell. Earthly these passions as of earth, They perish where they had their... | |
 | Kenyon West - Poets laureate - 1895 - 588 pages
...eyes half-closed for pleasure, would he stand Courting the pressure of her gentle hand. FROM KEHAMA. THEY sin who tell us Love can die: With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. Love is indestructible : Its holy flame forever burneth; From Heaven it came, to Heaven returneth.... | |
 | Kenyon West - Literary Criticism - 1895 - 614 pages
...eyes half-closed for pleasure, would he stand Courting the pressure of her gentle hand. FROM KEHAMA. THEY sin who tell us Love can die : With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. Love is indestructible : Its holy flame forever burneth ; From Heaven it came, to Heaven returneth.... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - Conduct of life - 1895 - 370 pages
...to love and live Be one." 3 For does it end with life. A mother's love knows uo bounds. " They err who tell us Love can die, With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. i Bondi. Tr. by Glassfors. ' Tennyson. 3 Swinburne. In Heaven Ambition cannot dwell, Nor Avarice in... | |
 | Robert Elliott Speer - 1896 - 264 pages
...friendship false, and Jesus' true to Judas, and to the eleven whose friendship to Him proved true at last. " 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 forever burneth ; From heaven it came,... | |
 | Mottoes - 1896 - 1224 pages
...world was set in arms • The cause was, — all for love. m. SOOTHEY— All for Love. Pt.II. St. 26. % n. SOUTHEY — Curse of Kehama. Mount Meru. St. 10. Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time. 0.... | |
 | Charles Mackay - English poetry - 1896 - 680 pages
...thou wert all, And noaght beyond, oh earth I [Roam SOUTHEV. 1774— "843.) LOVE. THEY sin who tell love can die : With life all other passions fly, All...avarice in the vaults of Hell : Earthly these passions, as of Earth, They perish where they have their birth, But Love is indestructible ; Its holy flame for... | |
 | Robert Southey - Admirals - 1896 - 376 pages
...some lines of touching and singular beauty,2 has left us a record of how completely his 1 Beginning, " They sin who tell us Love can die, With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity." 2 Beginning, " My days among the Dead are passed, Around me I behold Where'er these casual eyes are... | |
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