 So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life, That I, considering everywhere Her secret meaning in her deeds, And finding that of fifty seeds She often brings but one to bear, I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight...  The Works of Alfred Tennyson, Poet Laureate - Page 302by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1878 - 665 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1897 - 986 pages
...firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar stairs That slope through darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith...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
...firmly trod, And falling with my wait of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs, That slope through darkness up to God ; I stretch lame hands of faith,...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... | |
 | 1850 - 550 pages
...firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God ; I stretch lame hands of faith,...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 - 272 pages
...firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God ; I stretch lame hands of faith,...is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope. LT. " So careful of the type ?" but no. From scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries, " A thousand... | |
 | 1850 - 602 pages
...firmly trod, And falling with my wait of cares Upon the great world'» altar-stairs, That slope through darkness up to God ; I stretch lame hands of faith,...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
...falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs 78 I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather...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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 422 pages
...infant crying in the night : An infant crying for the light : And with no language but a cry. LIT. THE wish, that of the living whole No life may fail...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... | |
 | 1853 - 442 pages
...firmly trod, And, falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God ; I stretch lame hands of faith,...is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope. ALFRID TENNYSON. of t|je Crmtar. * * THE definite period at which man was introduced upon the scene,... | |
 | Elizabeth Nicholson - 1853 - 412 pages
...firmly trod, And, falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God ; I stretch lame hands of faith,...is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope. ALFKED TENNYSON. of * * THE definite period at which man was introduced upon the scene, seems to have... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1855 - 520 pages
...Nature lends such evil dreams ? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life : cc " That I, considering everywhere Her secret meaning...is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope." " ' So careful of the type ?' but no. From scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries ' a thousand... | |
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