 | James Freeman Clarke - 1890 - 348 pages
...Having nothing ourselves, we can give nothing to others ; for it is giving ourselves which does good. " Not what we give, but what we share, For the gift without the giver is hare." Therefore we cannot be what every Christian ought to be, — the " salt of the earth," the "... | |
 | 1909 - 632 pages
...He who is thus awakened intuitively understands the full meaning of Lowell's lines when he says : " Not what we give, but what we share — For the gift without the giver is bate." n. And speaking of Lowell suggests the fact that he was one of the true torchbearers or awakeners... | |
 | 1891 - 438 pages
...blood that died on the tree ; The holy supper is kept, indeed, In whatso we share with another's need ; Not what we give, but what we share, — For the gift without the giver is bare ; Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me." FROM " MY LOVE."... | |
 | 1908 - 868 pages
...you— only you— can do so. The Holy Supper is kept indeed, In whatso we share with another's need. Not what we give, but what we share, For the gift without the giver is bare. Who gives himself with his alms feeds three: Himself, his hungering neighbor and Me. AUNT Jo. THE LATTER-DAY... | |
 | 1888 - 616 pages
..." I give tithes of all I possess." But, if the American poet is right, giving is not enough, for " Not what we give, but what we share, For the gift without the giver is bare." Sharing is more difficult than giving ; but it may be that the vexed question of what luxury is right... | |
 | 1905 - 1078 pages
...the world offers little. Surely this is one form of that Charity which is, in the words of the poet : Not what we give, but what we share : For the gift without the giver is bare. ME JERSEY. THE ART OF CLASSICAL QUOTATION THE history of lost arts is an interesting subject. If it... | |
 | Beverly Taylor, Elisabeth Brewer - 1983 - 394 pages
...numerous pithy pronouncements about charity that remain favourite pieces for schoolroom recitation: 'Not what we give, but what we share, / For the gift without the giver is bare.' Tennyson's impress on late nineteenth-century Arthurian poetry is as marked in America as in England.... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging - 1991 - 104 pages
...assistance. I've always looked at a philosophy from Lord Tennyson's division of Sir Lorenthal who gives himself with his alms, feeds three, himself, his hungry neighbor, and me, meaning our Lord Savior. But the greatest thing Tennyson brought, you benefit yourself. This is a terrific... | |
 | Alan Lupack - 1992 - 512 pages
...the tree; The Holy Supper is kept, indeed, In whatso we share with another's need, — Not that which we give, but what we share, — For the gift without the giver is bare; Who bestows himself with his alms feeds three, — Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me." IX Sir Launfal... | |
 | Robert H. Bremner - 260 pages
...Christ, saying to the knight The Holy Supper is kept, indeed In whatso we share with another's need; Not what we give, but what we share, For the gift without the giver is bare; Who give himself with his alms feeds three Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.10 Sometimes sharing... | |
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The Holy Supper is kept, indeed, In whatso we share with another's need; Not what we give, but what we share, ! For the gift without the giver is bare; Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me. 
