 | 1893 - 608 pages
...grasp the unsatisfying realities which lie within our reach. Yet, after all, he feels that he is only ' An infant crying in the night, An infant crying for the light, And with no language hut a cry.' His own faith is characterised by a wistful resolution to cling to belief in human... | |
 | 1864 - 998 pages
...of ill ? Will God refuse to destroy one life that he has made ? So runs my dream ; but what am I ? An infant crying in the night ; An infant crying for the light ; And with no language but a cry.' These, and such as these, are the questions which assail the modern poet, and... | |
 | 1884 - 598 pages
...xviii. 13. Another sign is tasting. — Job xxxiv. 3 ; Psalm cxix. 103 ; 1 Peter ii. 3. "What am I? An infant crying in the night An infant crying for the light, And with no language but a cry." " That were a grief I could not bear, Didst Thou not hear and answer prayer ;... | |
 | 1883 - 542 pages
...Gallwn feddwl fod Tennyson yn adrodd eich profiad chwi pan y dy wed : So rnns my dream: bnt what am I ? An infant crying in the night : An infant crying for the light i And with no language but a cry. X. Ydyw. Ac mor debyg yw ysbryd oi eiriau i'r oiddo y barddfrenin... | |
 | 1879 - 608 pages
...resemblance in spite of a manifest discrepancy. In Memoriam, liii. : — " So runs my dream : but what am 1 ! An infant crying in the night, An infant crying for the light : And with no language but a cry." De Quincey, preface to Autobiographic Sketches: " Nothing on the stage but a solitary... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 272 pages
...that good shall fall At last, — far off", — at last, to all, So runs my dream : but what am I ? An infant crying in the night : An infant crying for the light : And with no language but a cry. 83 LIV. THE wish, that of the living whole No life may fail beyond the grave, —... | |
 | 1850 - 550 pages
...taken up the exclamation, forced even from the somewhat transcendental poet, Tennyson,— " What am I ? An infant crying in the night : An infant crying for the light: And with no language but a cry !" We have climbed over the ridges of lofty mountains, and walked at the edge of... | |
 | 1850 - 550 pages
...far off — at last, to all, And every winter change to spring. So runs my dream : but what am I ? An infant crying in the night : An infant crying for the light : And with no language but a cry." — P. 77. This subservience of Knowledge to Faith appears from first to last... | |
 | 1850 - 608 pages
...up the exclamation, forced even from the somewhat transcendental poet, Tennyson, — " Whnt am I ? An infant crying in the night : An infant crying for the light : And with no language but a cry '." We have climbed over the ridges of lofty mountains, and walked at the edge of... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 228 pages
...that good shall fall At last — far off — at last, to all, Lin. So runs my dream : but what am I ? An infant crying in the night : An infant crying for the light : And with no language but a cry. 77 LIV. THE wish, that of the living whole No life may fail beyond the grave ;... | |
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So runs my dream; but what am I? An infant crying in the night; An infant crying for the light, And with no language but a cry. 
