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" 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 is indestructible: Its holy flame for ever burneth ; From Heaven it came, to Heaven returneth... "
The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: With a Memoir ... - Page 88
by Robert Southey - 1884
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The curse of Kehama, Volume 1

Robert Southey - 1812 - 278 pages
...His own Yedillian's earthly face; He ran and held her to his breast! Oh joy above all joys of Heaven, By Death alone to others given, This moment hath to him restored The early-lost, the long-deplor'd. 9. They sin who tell us love can die. With life all other passions fly, All others are...
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Select Reviews, Volume 5

1812 - 470 pages
...that follows is an imitation, almost equally successful, of the moralizing style of Walter Scott. " They sin who tell us love can die. With life all other passions fly, AH others are but vanity. In Ireavcn ambition cannot dwell, Nor avarice in the vaults of hell; Earthly...
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La Belle Assemblée, Volume 5

1812 - 398 pages
...wonld prove, And seal their nnion with a hrother's lore. LOVE. BY R. SOuTHET. THEY sin who tell ns Love can die. With life all other passions fly, All others are hnt vanity. In Heaven Amhition caanot dwe'l, Nor Avarice in the vanlts of Hell ; Esrthly these passions...
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The Duties, Advantages, Pleasures, and Sorrows of the Marriage State

John Ovington - 1813 - 168 pages
...their children in infancy, to look forward to the time when they will meet them again. ' They err, who tell us love can die ; With life all other passions fly, All others are hat vanity. In Heaven ambition cannot dwell, Nor avarice in the vaults of hell ; Earthly these passions...
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Arliss's Literary collections

John Arliss - 1825 - 382 pages
...Of all that fluttcr'd follow'd, sought and sued : This is to be alone; this, this is solitude. LOVE. They sin who tell us love can die, With life all other...passions fly, All others are but vanity. In heaven amhition cannot dwell, Nor avarice in the vanlts of hell Earthly these passions as of earth, They perish...
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Specimens of sacred and serious poetry, from Chaucer to the present day ...

John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...sympathies of kindred blood, yet they breathe the etherial essence of the love that is indestructible : They sin who tell us Love can die, With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. Earthly, these passions are of earth, They pcrish where they find their birth, But Love is indestructible:...
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Sacred poetry: consisting of selections from the works of the most admired ...

Henry Stebbing - 1832 - 858 pages
...Silence — and never 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...
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The Spirit of Life, a Poem: Pronounced Before the Franklin Society of Brown ...

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 heaven returneth...
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The Spirit of Life, a Poem: Pronounced Before the Franklin Society of Brown ...

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...
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The Cottager's monthly visitor, Volume 14

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 is indestructible....
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