 | Charles Mackay - 1897 - 666 pages
...thou wert all, And nought beyond, oh earth ! [ROBERT SOUTHEY. 1774—1843.] 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... | |
 | Bertha Marian Skeat - Lamentatyon of Mary Magdaleyne - 1897 - 676 pages
...vorher hatte er jene oft citierten tiefempfundenen Verse (Keh. X. 10. 11.) verfasst: ,.They sin who teil us Love can die. With life all other passions fly....Heaven Ambition cannot dwell, Nor avarice in the vaults ot Hell; Earthly these passions of the Earth, They perish where they have their birth ; But Love is... | |
 | Bronson Howard - 1897 - 36 pages
...suppose, (looks at paper) Ah ! here it is : (reads) "June 12th, 1865." Thirteen years ago. (reads) " They sin who tell us love can die ; With life, all other passions fly, All others are but vanity." He looks at the picture a moment, then suddenly starts ; looks L. , as if hearing a sound ; hastily... | |
 | Evangelical Alliance. International Conference - Evangelical Alliance - 1897 - 546 pages
...shall in no wise lose its reward. What we sow here we shall reap there. As expressed by Southey : — " They sin who tell us love can die, With life all other passions fly, All others are lmt vanity. In heaven ambition cannot dwell, Nor avarice in the vaults of hell, Earthly these passions... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 620 pages
...minutes after four — three hours and a quarter after he had received his wound. IMMORTALITY OF LOVE. They sin who tell us Love can die. With life all other...the earth, They perish where they have their birth : But love is indestructible ; Its holy flame forever burneth, From heaven it came, to heaven returneth.... | |
 | Amy Neally - English poetry - 1898 - 244 pages
...— till now. MATTHEW GREGORY LEWIS. LOVE'S IMMORTALITY. They sin who tell us Love can die! With iife all other passions fly; All others are but vanity....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 forever... | |
 | Love poetry - 1899 - 386 pages
...sunflower turns on her god, when he sets, The same look which she turned when he rose. — Thomas Moore. LOVE'S IMMORTALITY. THEY sin who tell us Love can...the earth, They perish where they have their birth, But Love is indestructible. Its holy flame for ever burneth, From Heaven it came, to Heaven returneth... | |
 | Frederick Saunders, Minnie K. Davis - American poetry - 1899 - 768 pages
...turned when he rose. THOMAS MOOKE. LOVE. (From "The Curse of Keham*.") sin who tell us love can die. Is With Life all other passions fly, All others are but...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, to... | |
 | Reginald John Campbell - Sermons, English - 1902 - 376 pages
...God. Love is not of earth but of heaven. It is a ray of the nature of the Father. As Southey says : 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,... | |
 | Frederick C. Bursch, Annie Dennis Bursch - Bibliography - 1902 - 350 pages
...He thought it, however, infinitely superior to "Thalaba." Certainly the address to Love, beginning They sin who tell us Love can die; With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity, is a noble passage, deserving of remembrance. I could never understand why Southey should have chosen... | |
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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... 
