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... La Belle Assemblée - Page 2101812Full view - About this book
| Alaric Alexander Watts - English poetry - 1828 - 498 pages
...shall reprehend it ? Knight's Quarterly Magazine. W. LOVE. BY R. SOUTHEY, ESQ. 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... | |
| Religious poetry - 1828 - 198 pages
...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 passions fly, All others are but vanity. In heaven, ambition cannot dwell, Nor avarice in the vaults of hell ; Earthly these passions... | |
| Alaric Alexander Watts - English poetry - 1828 - 430 pages
...shall reprehend it ? Knight's Quarterly Magazine. W. LOVE. BY II. SOUTHEY, ESQ. 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... | |
| Robert Walsh - American essays - 1828 - 564 pages
...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 fly, All others are but vanity. In heaven ambition cannot dwell, Nor avarice in the vaults of hell; Earthly these passions... | |
| Robert Southey - English literature - 1829 - 806 pages
...Ry Death alone to others given, This moment hath to him restor'd The early-lost, the long-deplor'd. They sin who tell ns 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... | |
| Henry Stebbing - Religious poetry, English - 1832 - 858 pages
...more on earth Shall sound our footstep's fall ! LOVE'S IMMORTALITY. [SODTHEY.] THEY sin who tell us love can die ! With life all other passions fly, All others are hut vanity, In heaven amhition cannot dwell Nor avarice in the vaults of hell ; Earthly these passions... | |
| Willis Gaylord Clark - 1833 - 86 pages
...on thy folded eye, While thy spirit is glad in the courts on high. A LAMENT. They Bin, who tell us love can die: With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity : But love is indestructible : Its holy name forever burneth ; From heaven it came — to... | |
| John Lauris Blake - Readers - 1833 - 286 pages
...them to your parents, if you like it." LESSON THIRTY-FOURTH. Love is Eternal. They sin who tell us love can die. With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. In heaven ambition cannot dwell, IN or avarice in the vaults of hell; Earthly these passions... | |
| 1834 - 444 pages
...sorrowing mother " who has lost her babe in infancy," I shall transcribe them. " They sin who tell us love can die. With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity ; Earthly, these passions of the earth, They perish where they had their birth ; But love... | |
| Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Mrs. Hemans - English poetry - 1834 - 374 pages
...then, thy guide is nigh ! SONGS OF A GUARDIAN SPIRIT. IL OH ! DROOP THOU NOT ! They sin who tell as 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,... | |
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