 I falter where I 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, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And...  Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature - Page 3551851Full view - About this book
 | Elaine Jordan - 1988 - 212 pages
...with guilt. In LV 'lame hands' that fail like Nature and Sorrow to hold anything 'grope' and crawl Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God. These lines affirm the God which they fail to believe in securely, but in LXXII, which records the... | |
 | Gabriel Daly - 1988 - 248 pages
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 | Antony Easthope - 1989 - 240 pages
...often brings but one to bear, I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares 15 Upon 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 I feel is Lord... | |
 | Paul Turner - 1989 - 544 pages
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 | Alexander Welsh - 1992 - 288 pages
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 | Thomas Stearns Eliot - 1996 - 476 pages
...The Dark Night of the Soul and The Ascent of Mount Carmel. Compare Tennyson, In Memoriam LV 15—16: Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God, 13 pot: OED ra: 'Often with defining word, as glue-pot'. 14 clippings: OED ib: 'A press cutting, orig.... | |
 | Paul Negri - 1999 - 244 pages
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