 Oh Love ! no habitant of earth thou art — An unseen seraph, we believe in thee, A faith whose martyrs are the broken heart, But never yet hath seen, nor e'er shall see The naked eye, thy form, as it should be ; The mind hath made thee, as it peopled...  The works of ... lord Byron - Page 154by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819Full view - About this book
 | Alfred Jackson, Effingham Wilson - 1849 - 222 pages
...the hand of flesh too heavy to portray the exquisite lineaments of thy immaterial loveliness, for " no habitant of earth thou art. An unseen Seraph, we...martyrs are the broken heart. But never yet hath seen, or e'er shall sec, The human eye thy form as it should be." Many are the sunny moments scattered around... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1851 - 352 pages
...wants. CXXI. Oh Love ! no habitant of earth art thou — An unseen seraph, we believe in thee, A foith whose martyrs are the broken heart, But never yet...shape and image given, As haunts the unquench'd soul — parch'd — weariedwrung — and riven. cxxu. Of its own beauty is the mind diseased, And fevers... | |
 | Maria Priscilla Smith - 1851 - 152 pages
...insufficiency of all human affections to make our happiness : — ' Oh Love ! no habitant of earth tliou art, An unseen seraph, we believe in thee, A faith,...thee, as it peopled Heaven, Even with its own desiring fantasy, And to a thought such shape and image given, As haunts the unquenched soul, parched, wearied,... | |
 | François duc de La Rochefoucauld - Maxims - 1851 - 262 pages
...seraph, we believe in thee — A faith whose martyrs are the broken heart ; But never yet hath seen, or e'er shall see, The naked eye thy form, as it should...thee, as it peopled heaven Even with its own desiring fantasy. And to a thought such shape and image given As haunts the unquench'd soul, parch'd, wearied,... | |
 | François duc de La Rochefoucauld - Maxims - 1851 - 290 pages
...know the qualities of the heart, while it is easy to know those of the head. " O Love, no inhabitant of earth thou art. An unseen seraph, we believe in...martyrs are the broken heart ; But never yet hath seen, or e'er shall see, The naked eye thy form, as it should be. The mind hath made thee, as it peopled... | |
 | American periodicals - 1851 - 604 pages
...Rochefoucauld, and this maxim appears to have been the germ of the following fine stanza : — " О love, roduced in modern times by France, Germany, Holland,...— not only in doing justice to the parties litig ; Hut never yet hath seen, or e'er shall see, The naked eye thy form, as it should be. The mind hath... | |
 | 644 pages
...and Original NOVEL. Author. By a Popular CHAPTER XVIII. A HAY OP LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS. " 0, love! no habitant of earth thou art, An unseen seraph, we...hath seen, nor e'er shall see The naked eye thy form a* it should be The mind hath made thscas it peopled heaven, Even with its own desiring phantasy ;... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1853 - 1024 pages
...forbidden to our want* CXXI. Oh I ore t no habitant of earth thou artAn unseen seraph, we believe in ihce, A faith whose martyrs are the broken heart, But never...The naked eye, thy form, as it should be ; The mind halb made ihee, as it peopled heaven, Kvcn with its own desiring phantasy, And to a thought such shape... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English fiction - 1853 - 502 pages
...For some celestial frnit forhidden to onr wants. Oh Love ! no habitant of earth art thon An nnseen seraph, we believe in thee,— A faith whose martyrs are the broken heart,— Bnt never yet hath seen, nor e'er shall see The naked eye, thy form, as it shonld be ; The mind hath... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1854 - 432 pages
...bidd'st me be a boy, To gad with thee the woodlands o'er In freedom and in joy. ^Brilliantn. Oh Love, no habitant of earth thou art — An unseen seraph,...shape and image given As haunts the unquench'd soul — parch'd — weariedwrung — and riven. BYBON. FBOUD HUMILITY. Pitch thy behaviour low, thy projects... | |
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