 Behold, we know not anything; I can but trust that good shall fall At last — far off — at last, to all, And every winter change to spring. So runs my dream : but what am I ? An infant crying in the night : An infant crying for the light: And with...  The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson - Page 261by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1886 - 640 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Criticism - 1850 - 676 pages
...shrivelled in a fruitless fire, Or but subserves another's gain. " Behold ! we know not any thing ; I can but trust that good shall fall At last, —...but what am I ? An infant crying in the night : An infant crying for a light : And with no language but a cry." The above quotation may be supposed to... | |
 | American literature - 1850 - 602 pages
...the pile complete : That not a wormjis cloven in vain ; That not a moth with vain desire Is shrivel'd in a fruitless fire, Or but subserves another's gain....but what am I ? An infant crying in the night ; An infant crying for the light : And with no language but a cry." — p. 77. This subservience of Knowledge... | |
 | Literature - 1850 - 550 pages
...the pile complete ; That not a worm is cloven in vain ; That not a moth with vain desire Is shrivel'd in a fruitless fire, Or but subserves another's gain....but what am I ? An infant crying in the night : An infant crying for the light : And with no language but a cry." — P. 77. This subservience of Knowledge... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 272 pages
...Is shrivelled in a fruitless fire, Or but subserves another's gain. Behold ! we know not any thing ; I can but trust that good shall fall At last, —...but what am I ? An infant crying in the night : An infant crying for the light : And with no language but a cry. LIV. THE wish, that of the living whole... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 1851 - 422 pages
...the pile complete : That not a worm is cloven in vain ; That not a moth with vain desire Is shrivel'd in a fruitless fire, Or but subserves another's gain....but what am I ? An infant crying in the night : An infant crying for the light : And with no language but a cry. LIT. THE wish, that of the living whole... | |
 | 1851 - 588 pages
...hostile to Christianity, are dispassionately considered. PASSAGES IN THE LIFE OF AN ENQUIRER. CHAP. I. Behold ! we know not anything ; I can but trust that...but what am I ? An infant crying in the night : An infant crying for the light: And with no language but a cry. — Tennyson. THE words of our motto are... | |
 | Cyclopaedia, Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 762 pages
...spirit looks to Thee. — Mrs. Neal. Oh, yet we trust that, somehow, good Will be the final goal of all, To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt...— but what am I? An infant crying in the night; An infant crying for the light; And with no language but a cry. Tennyson. In patience, then, possess thy... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Religious poetry, English - 1854 - 374 pages
...Is shrivelled in a fruitless fire, Or but subserves another's gain. Behold ! we know not any thing ; I can but trust that good shall fall At last, —...but what am I ? An infant crying in the night : An infant crying for the light : And with no language but a cry. m. O THOU that after toil and storm May'st... | |
 | John Wesley Hanson - Universalism - 1854 - 202 pages
...shrivelled in a fruitless fire, Or but subserves another's gain. " Behold ! we know not any thing; 1 con but trust that GOOD SHALL FALL At last— far off—...but what am I ? An infant crying in the night ; An infant crying for the light ; And with no language but a cry." And again : "That God which ever lives... | |
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