 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...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...is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope. [From In .Vmoriam.] SOUL TO SOUL. I SHALL not see thee. Darelsay N'o spirit ever brake the band That... | |
 | American literature - 1850 - 602 pages
...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, and grope, And gather...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... | |
 | 1897 - 986 pages
...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...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,... | |
 | 1879 - 826 pages
...weight of cares Upon the world's great altar stairs, That slope throngh darkness up to God, Stretch out lame hands of faith, and grope And gather dust and...is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope." The man of science asks me to be satisfied with what is positive; to leave what is incapable of mathematical... | |
 | 1850 - 602 pages
...with my wait of cares Upon the great world'» altar-stairs, That slope through darkness up to God ; I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather...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... | |
 | Literature - 1850 - 550 pages
...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...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 - Grief - 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 - 1850 - 228 pages
...Upon the great world's altar-stairs 78 I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust aiid chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope. 79 Lv. ' So careful of the type ? ' but no. Prom scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries ' a thousand... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1921 - 1154 pages
...continues to do so in abrupt and futile movements. Compare Tennyson in ' In Memoriam," canto Iv. : — I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff ; . and Hecuba in ' The Trojan Women,' 1305, " beating the earth with both her hands.'"' A footnote in Darwin... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 1851 - 422 pages
...falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God ; I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather...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... | |
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I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope thro' 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... 
