“From Thee, great God: we spring, to Thee we tend,
Path, motive, guide, original, and end.”

O Canada (1908)

Sylphs
Poems (1851), Prometheus
Context: True, thy fault is great,
But we are many that will plead for thee;
We and our sisters, dwellers in the streams
That murmur blithely to the joyous mood,
And dolefully to sadness. Not a nook
In darkest woods but some of us are there,
To watch the flowers, that else would die unseen.

Need-love says of a woman "I cannot live without her"; Gift-love longs to give her happiness, comfort, protection — if possible, wealth; Appreciative love gazes and holds its breath and is silent, rejoices that such a wonder should exist even if not for him, will not be wholly dejected by losing her, would rather have it so than never to have seen her at all.
The Four Loves (1960)

As quoted in His Brother&#x27;s Blood: Speeches and Writings, 1838&amp;ndash;64 https://web.archive.org/web/20160319091004/https://books.google.com/books?id=qMEv8DNXVbIC&amp;pg=PA394#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false (2004), edited by William Frederick Moore and Jane Ann Moore, p. 394 <br class="br">1860s, Prayer (November 1863)

Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942), p. 19

Nearer, my God, to Thee (c. 1841)

Letter to Alys Pearsall Smith (1894). Smith was a Quaker, thus the archaic use of "Thee" in this and other letters to her.
1890s

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 85

America, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).