 I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And...  How to Get the Best Out of Books - Page 62by Richard Le Gallienne - 1904 - 167 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To...is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope. [From In .Vmoriam.] SOUL TO SOUL. I SHALL not see thee. Darelsay N'o spirit ever brake the band That... | |
 | 1897 - 986 pages
...the great world's altar stairs That slope through darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith and grope And gather dust and chaff, and call To what...is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope. Whatever else Tennyson has taught us, he has certainly taught us that doubt may be much too confident,... | |
 | 1850 - 602 pages
...great world's altar-stairs, That slope through darkness up to God ; I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To...is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope." — p. 79. The fears and doubts that issue out of the perishableness of our bodies and the sins of... | |
 | 1879 - 826 pages
...world's great altar stairs, That slope throngh darkness up to God, Stretch out lame hands of faith, and grope And gather dust and chaff, and call To what...is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope." The man of science asks me to be satisfied with what is positive; to leave what is incapable of mathematical... | |
 | 1850 - 602 pages
...great world'» altar-stairs, That slope through darkness up to God ; I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To...Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope."— p. 79. The fears and doubts that issue out of the perishableness of our bodies and the sins of our... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 228 pages
...falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs 78 I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To...is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope. 79 ' So careful of the type ? ' but no. From scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries ' a thousand... | |
 | 1850 - 550 pages
...the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God ; I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To...is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope." — P. 79. The fears and doubts that issue out of the perishableness of our bodies and the sins of... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 228 pages
...Upon the great world's altar-stairs 78 I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust aiid chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope. 79 Lv. ' So careful of the type ? ' but no. Prom scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries ' a thousand... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 422 pages
...the great world's altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God ; I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To...is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope. LV. ' So careful of the type ? ' but no. From scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries ' a thousand... | |
 | Margaret Oliphant Oliphant - 1851 - 284 pages
...DRAYTON. CHAPTER I. "Fall Upon the great world's altar stairs, That slope through darkness up to God— And gather dust, and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all—" DAVID BRUCE is saying these words half aloud, and John Drayton's eye falls upon them as he bashfully... | |
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