They dare not devise good for man's estate, And yet they know not that they do not dare. The good want power, but to weep barren tears. The powerful goodness want: worse need for them. The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom; And all best things... The Heavenly Twins - Page 241by Sarah Grand - 1893 - 679 lehteFull view - About this book
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 575 lehte
...they do not dare. The* good want power, but to weep barren tears. The powerful goodness want: worse le That feed upon the dead and fly the living, One rose out of the beat things are thus confused to ill. Many are strong and rich, and would be just, But live among their... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1831 - 628 lehte
...powerful goodness want : worse need for them. The wine want love ; and those who love, want wisdom ; Anil ial pot, trippet, and brazen pan — But singing he...Coleridge Samuel Taylor" Samuel Taylor Coleridge( Thy words are like a cloud of winged snakes ; And yet I pity thoee they torture not. FURV. Thon piu'est... | |
| 1850 - 772 lehte
...ideal reformer, that "The good want power but to weep barren tears. The powerful goodness want, worse need for them ; The wise want love, and those who love want wisdom, And ill best things are thus confused to ill." Bat each and all these phases of reaction, in the spirit... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1838 - 634 lehte
...they do not dare. The good want power, but to weep barren tears. The powerful goodness want : worse need for them. The wise want love; and those who love,...be just, But live among their suffering fellow-men A> if none felt : they know not what they do. PROMETHEUS. Thy words are like a cloud of winged snakes... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1839 - 408 lehte
...they do not dare. The good want power, but to weep barren tears. The powerful goodness want : worse need for them. The wise want love ; and those who love want Andallbestthingsarethuscoufusedto ill. [wisdom; Many are strong and rich, and would be just, But live... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 402 lehte
...those who love want And ;ill best things are thus eonfused to ill. [wisdom; Many are strong and rieh, and would be just, But live among their suffering...none felt : they know not what they do. PROMETHEUS. Thy words are like a eloud of winged snakes ; And yet I pity those they torture not. FURY. Thou pitiest... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1847 - 638 lehte
...they do not dare. The good want power, but to weep barren tears. The powerful goodness want: worse need for them. The wise want love; and those who love,...confused to ill. Many are strong and rich, and would bo just, But live amon^ their suffering fellow-men As if none felt: they know not what they do. PROMKTIIEOS.... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1847 - 578 lehte
...they do not dare. The good want power, but to weep barren tears. The powerful goodness want : worse need for them. The wise want love ; and those who love want Andallbeetthingsarcthusconfusedto ill. [wisdom; Many are strong and rich, and would be just, But live... | |
| Sir Henry Taylor - 1849 - 322 lehte
...is triumphant. ' The Good want power, but to weep barren tears. The Powerful goodness want : worse need for them. The Wise want love ; and those who...wisdom ; And all best things are thus confused to ill.' * I do not mean of course to imply that it is for want of written poetry that the French nation cannot... | |
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