 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...  Queen's Quarterly - Page 811895Full view - About this book
 | 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
...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...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... | |
 | Margaret Oliphant Oliphant - 1851 - 284 pages
...DRAYTON. CHAPTER I. "Fall Upon the great world's altar stairs, That slope through darkness up to God— And gather dust, and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all—" DAVID BRUCE is saying these words half aloud, and John Drayton's eye falls upon them as he bashfully... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1851 - 598 pages
...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,... | |
 | Samuel Phillips - American literature - 1852 - 286 pages
...fringed with fire."—xv. "And on the low dark verge of life, The twilight of eternal day."—xlix. " I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's Altar stain That slope through darkness up to God."—liv. " The chesnut pattering to the ground."—xi.... | |
 | Samuel Phillips - English literature - 1852 - 268 pages
...fringed ivith fire."— xv. " And on the low dark verge of life, The twilight of eternal day" — xlix. " 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." — liv. " The chesnut pattering to the ground"... | |
 | Elizabeth Nicholson - Literature - 1853 - 412 pages
...book we learned, Ere childhood's flaxen ringlet turned To black and brown, on kindred brows. * # * * I falter where I firmly trod, And, falling with my...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... | |
 | American literature - 1853 - 442 pages
...book we learned, Ere childhood's flaxen ringlet turned To black and brown, on kindred brows. * * # * I falter where I firmly trod, And, falling with my...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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1853 - 520 pages
...John Chapman, 1853. t Him, infer aliot, we may presume to have been referred to by the most recent, I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my...cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God ; I stretch lame hnnds of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - Periodicals - 1855 - 520 pages
...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...of all, And faintly trust the larger hope." " ' So careful of the type ?' but no. From scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries ' a thousand types are... | |
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