FLOWER in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies ; — Hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower — but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is. The Atlantic Medical Weekly - Page 1361898Full view - About this book
| Robert Hall Baynes - 1869 - 686 pages
...Let us take for instance the little »gem which occupies page 204 :— " Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies ; — Hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower — but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I... | |
| Fanny Aikin- Kortright - 1870 - 568 pages
...continued.) IN the Laureate's new volume there is the following stanza : — " FLOWER in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, Hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower — but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1870 - 216 pages
...cannot see ; But if we could see and hear, this Vision — were it not He? FLOWER in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies ; — Hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower — but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I... | |
| Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1870 - 242 pages
...cannot see; But if we could see and hear, this Vision—were it not He? FLOWER in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies ;— Hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower—but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should... | |
| Ernest John Eitel - 1871 - 50 pages
...It reminds one in fact of that unpretending little poem of Tennyson's : Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies ; — Hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower — but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1872 - 498 pages
...cannot see ; But if we could see and hear, this Vision — were it not He ? FLOWER in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies ; — Hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower — but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I... | |
| Lewis Baxter Monroe - 1872 - 418 pages
...feeling a truth yourself, and in making those who hear you feel it. 2. Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you. out of the crannies ; — Hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower — but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I... | |
| Shirley Hibberd - 1872 - 142 pages
...leaves in the first instance. VI.— THE SPECIES AND VARIETIES OF IVY. " Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies; Hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower — but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I... | |
| Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1872 - 304 pages
...cannot see ; But if we could see and hear, this Vision — were it not He ? LOWER in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies ; — Hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower — but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I... | |
| Mary Mapes Dodge, William Fayal Clarke, Albert Gallatin Lanier, Maurice R. Robinson - 1877 - 992 pages
...Tennyson gives a hint of how he feels it, in these half-dozen lines : " Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, Hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower; but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should... | |
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