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... The Yale Literary Magazine - Side 1301863Fuld visning - Om denne bog
| 1897 - 986 sider
...form the excuses for doubt, proceeded to say of himself: — 1 falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar...lame hands of faith and grope And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope. Whatever else Tennyson... | |
| 1850 - 602 sider
...falter where I firmly trod, And falling 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 dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope." — p. 79. The fears... | |
| 1880 - 494 sider
...Blessed Saints — adoring evermore, The Glorious and Eternal Paraclete. CAMW THE LEA.VEN AT WORK. " The great world's altar stairs That slope through darkness up to GOD." TENNYSON. MAY not these lines be permitted to suggest a two-fold connection with the great Anglican... | |
| 1850 - 602 sider
...falter where I firmly trod, And falling 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 dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope."— p. 79. The fears... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 272 sider
...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 faintly trust the larger hope. LT. " So careful... | |
| 1850 - 550 sider
...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 faintly trust the larger hope." — P. 79. The fears... | |
| 1921 - 1154 sider
...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... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 228 sider
...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 dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope. 79 ' So careful of... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 422 sider
...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 faintly trust the larger hope. LV. ' So careful... | |
| 1851 - 598 sider
...of peace. " And falling, with my weight of care, Upon the great world's altar-stair, "Which slopes through darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope ; " and alas ! but how "faintly trust the larger hope ! " This battle of life, — these victories of sin,... | |
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