 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
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 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.' Can man who trusts, who battles for the true, be only the product of material forces, ' blown about... | |
 | Alfred Williams Momerie - 1882 - 402 pages
...trod, And falling with my weight of cares Z Upon the world's great 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. " But our confidence will grow in proportion as we act upon it, until at last it will become the very... | |
 | 1883 - 336 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." For man without the Gospel is but " An infant cryIng in the night, An infant crying for the light,... | |
 | Charles Bray - 1883 - 352 pages
...firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon a 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... | |
 | George Tugwell - 1884 - 166 pages
...by frightening thoughts which he only half comprehends. You remember the great poet's words : — " Are GOD and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends...is LORD of all, And faintly trust the larger hope." Yes, all real believers in a wise and good GOD come to this — a confession of one's utter ignorance,... | |
 | Alexander Macleod Symington - 1884 - 214 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. No. Rather let us trust not faintly, and so find rest unto our souls in obeying the gracious call we... | |
 | 1882 - 896 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. Thirty years separate " In Memoriam" from " Despair." The difference between the tone of the two poems... | |
 | John Hunter Smith - 1884 - 456 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." If, then, we sum up the result of Jesus' teaching on His noblest disciples so far, we shall find —... | |
 | Charles John Ellicott (bp. of Gloucester) - 1884 - 502 pages
...Upon the great world's altar stairs. Thai slope through darkness up to God ; " who can only say — "I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather...is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope." Their ritual in all its manifold variety was but as the inarticulate wailing of childhood — "An infant... | |
 | John Swett - 1884 - 412 pages
...fdlter where I firmly tr6d; And, falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's ator-stairs, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather...is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope. TENNYWIN'S In Memoriam. 4. THE LADDER OP ST. AUGUSTINE. The low desire, the base design, That makes... | |
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