 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
 | James Gurnhill - 1920 - 198 pages
...not in vain, because they were in earnest, and sought Him where He is ever to be found, in Nature ; " Upon the great world's altar-stairs, That slope through darkness up to God." 2 1 Better, as Bishop Ellicott points out : " We live and are moved and exist," ftutr tal mvotineSa... | |
 | Duren James Henderson Ward - 1922 - 340 pages
...light; And with no language but a cry. 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... | |
 | Edwin Markham - 1927 - 402 pages
...She often brings but one to bear, 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... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1942 - 156 pages
...light; And with no language, but a cry. I falter where I firmly trod. And fall with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs. That slope through darkness up to God. I stretch lame hands and grope And gather dust and chaff and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And... | |
 | C. Leon Harris - 1981 - 360 pages
...She often brings but one to bear, l falter where l firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God, l stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what l feel is Lord... | |
 | Clyde F. Crews - 1986 - 180 pages
...seems So careless of the single life 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1851 - 726 pages
...months back, were hud the remains of one who, rivalling his brother in great and good qualities, met Ute him an early death — one more example of hope blighted,...with the subject of the memoir before us. What might be have been but for opportunities neglected, and gifte abused:' Tlteir sun went down 'ere noon; Aw... | |
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