 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 New Mirror - Page 244edited by - 1843Full view - About this book
 | John Lauris Blake - Readers - 1833 - 286 pages
...ducats. You may send 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... | |
 | Willis Gaylord Clark - 1833 - 86 pages
...seal of sleep 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... | |
 | Willis Gaylord Clark - 1833 - 84 pages
...: With a seal of sleep on thy folded eye, While thy spirit is glad in the courts on high. A LAMENT. They sin, who tell us love can die: With life all other passiong ily, All others are but vanity : But love is indestructible : Its holy flame forever burneth... | |
 | 1834 - 444 pages
...some comfort to a 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,... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - Life - 1835 - 228 pages
...our veneration. We cannot better conclude this chapter than with the following appropriate lines by Southey. " 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 depths of hell. Earthly these passions,... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - American periodicals - 1835 - 1138 pages
...By death alone to others given, This moment hath to him rcslor'd The early-lost, the long deplor'd. "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... | |
 | Author of The young man's own book - American poetry - 1836 - 336 pages
...may'st remember the Flake of Snow By the promise that God hath given." Miss GoULD, LOVE'S IMMORTALITY. 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 Walsh - Conduct of life - 1836 - 276 pages
...will 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 fly, All others are but vanity. In heaven ambition cannot dwell, Nor avarice in the vaults of hell : Earthly these passions... | |
 | Thomas Harttree Cornish - Women - 1836 - 538 pages
...Love's invention spent, Three themes in one, which wond'rous scope affords. SHAESPEARI. LOVE IMMORTAL. 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 those passions... | |
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