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" So runs my dream: but what am I? An infant crying in the night: An infant crying for the light: And with no language but a cry. "
The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art - Page 216
1850
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Overland Monthly and The Out West Magazine, Volume 85

California - 1927 - 426 pages
...truth. Again: "Crying to be slit with eyeholes." We think of a mid-Victorian quatrain in contrast: So runs my dream; but what am I ? An infant crying in the night, An infant crying for the light And with no language but a cry!" The Jeffers line is strong. The "In Memoriam" stanza is strong, with something...
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Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Source : Passages ...

John Bartlett - Quotations - 1868 - 828 pages
...Hamlet, Act v. Sc. I. O yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill. In Memoriam. liii. But what am I ? An infant crying in the night : An infant crying for the light : And with no language but a cry. Ibid. liii. So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single...
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Hymns for All Christians

Hymns, English - 1869 - 284 pages
...the pile complete ; That not a worm is cloven in vain ; That not a moth with vain desire Is shriveled in a fruitless fire, Or but subserves another's gain....in the night : An infant crying for the light : And with no language but a cry. 58 The Sleep. [By ELIZABETH BAREETT BROWNIXO, born in England in 1809;...
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In memoriam [by A. Tennyson].

Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1869 - 232 pages
...That not a moth with vain desire Is shrivel'd in a fruitless fire, Or but subserves another's gaiu. Behold, we know not anything ; I can but trust that...in the night : An infant crying for the light : And with no language but a cry. THE wish, that of the living whole No life may fail beyond the grave, Derives...
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The fortunes of Cyril Denham, Volume 327

Emma Jane Worboise - 1869 - 450 pages
...the mere rubbish and debris of the pile, shall be wrought at last into the grand eternal structure. But what am I ? "An infant crying in the night, An infant crying for the light, And with no language but a cry." Surely Cyril Denham and I may help each other. How beautiful a mind he...
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In memoriam [by A. Tennyson].

Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1870 - 228 pages
...destroy'd, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete ; That not a worm is cloven in vain ; That not a moth with vain desire...in the night : An infant crying for the light : And with no language but a cry. LT. THE wish, that of the living whole No life may fail beyond the grave,...
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The New Englander, Volume 29

Criticism - 1870 - 748 pages
...moth with vain desire Is shrivelled in a fruitless fire, Or but subserves another's gain. "Behold I we know not anything; I can but trust that good shall...in the night: An infant crying for the light ; And with no language but a cry." But this " dream " has its nightmare. The poet is oppressed by horrible...
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New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 29

Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1870 - 750 pages
...a fruitless fire, Or but subserves another's gain. "Behold I we know not anything; I can but trnst that good shall fall At last, far off, at last, to...in the night: An infant crying for the light ; And with no language but A cry." But this " dream " has its nightmare. The poet is oppressed by horrible...
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Outlook and Independent, Volume 66

1900 - 1070 pages
...drawing nothing out. We are content with holier modesty; to lay our hands upon our lips and to say : So runs my dream : but what am I ? An infant crying...in the night, An infant crying for the light, And with no language but a cry. Changed modes of expression, changed points of view, which — though they...
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The Baptist Quarterly, Volume 4

Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - Baptists - 1870 - 528 pages
...sympathize instinctively when we hear a soul benighted wailing in the voice of reverence and prayer : — "but what am I? An infant crying in the night ; An infant crying for the light ; And with no language but a cry." It wonderfully relieves our sympathy of its burden when berating takes...
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