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,... The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem - Side 152af Walter Scott - 1807 - 340 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
| Catharine Harbeson Waterman - 1839 - 284 sider
...PURE AFFECTION. Each pink sends forth its choicest sweet, Aurora's warm embrace to meet. ROBINSON, True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven. It is the secret sympathy, The silver cord, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, In body... | |
| Walter Scott - 1841 - 848 sider
...Disgrace, and loss of fame. But earthly spirit could not tell The heart of them that loved so well. True love's the gift which God has given To man alone...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... | |
| Robert Tyas - 1842 - 462 sider
...gloomy moralist mean by true love ? Would he persuade us that it is a chimera ? Ah ! no ! we find 55 True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven. It is the secret sympathy, The silver cord, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, In body... | |
| Walter Scott - 1843 - 732 sider
...God hat given To man alone heneath the heaven. It is not Fantasy's hot tire, Whose wishes, soon at. granted, fly; It liveth not in fierce desire. With...secret sympathy. The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, In hody and in soul can hind. — Now leave we Margaret and... | |
| 1853 - 624 sider
...definition of matrimonial love with which we are acquainted : — " True Love 's the gift which God hath given To man alone beneath the heaven. It is not fantasy's...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... | |
| Walter Scott - 1845 - 382 sider
...Disgrace, and loss of fame. But earthly spirit could not tell The heart of them that loved so well. True love's the gift which God has given To man alone...secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, In body and in soul can bind. — Now leave we Margaret and... | |
| C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 396 sider
...шиасЦ trae, Keptre, AC" S, do. in Ule, rú-eount, Uland, te.: Clt, in eàtai, yacAt, (yot,) dracftm. True love's the gift, which God has given To man alone, beneath the heaven. It ta the secret sympathy, The flilver chord, the illken 'u, Which, ti'tirt — to heart, and mind —... | |
| C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 330 sider
...scene, sceptre, fee.: S, do. in bie, vti-count, island, ic.: СЛ, in «Aism, yacM, (yot,) dracAm. Tn<(. love's the gift, which God has given To man alone, beneath the heaven. It is the secret sympathy, The silver chord, the silken tie, Which, heart — to heart, and mind — to mind,... | |
| Kenelm Henry Digby - 1846 - 818 sider
...earthly spirit could not tell The heart of them that loTed so -well ; True loTe's the gift which Ciod has given To man alone beneath the heaven. It is not...secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, In body and in soul can bind." This was the affection which... | |
| Jean Froissart - 1847 - 378 sider
...faithful. All its requirements upon this point tended to realize the beautiful definition of the poet — " True love's the gift which God has given To man alone...secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind In body and in soul can bind." (1) And though some may cavil... | |
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