 FLOWER in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower — but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is.  The Catholic Record - Page 1981877Full view - About this book
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1882 - 48 pages
...may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things." '" Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies ; — Hold you here,...hand, Little flower — but if I could understand What you are, root and all. and all in all, I should know what God and man is." " I falter where I... | |
 | Alfred Williams Momerie - Christianity - 1882 - 402 pages
...is full of it. You remember those profound lines of Tennyson's : — " Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, — Hold you here,...my hand, Little flower ; but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is. " If, then, the fact... | |
 | Alphonso Wood - Botany - 1882 - 338 pages
...rare flow'ret of the hills, or plant of craggy fountains" WORDSWORTH ' Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies ; Hold you here, root...my hand, Little flower, but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, 1 should know what God and man is." • TENNYSON. BOTANY.... | |
 | Plato - 1882 - 154 pages
...the pleasures of repletion. In our day a great poet has written : — Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies ; Hold you here, root...hand, Little flower — but if I could understand 'What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is. This is genuine Idealism.... | |
 | Missions - 1883 - 1056 pages
...unseen and the eternal. Here is a trifle from the pen of Mr. Tennyson : ' Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies ; Hold you here, root...hand, Little flower — but if I could understand, What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is.' Here you will observe... | |
 | Concord School of Philosophy - Literary Criticism - 1883 - 176 pages
...thing-initself is a valid now ar<5 for conclusions respecting all things "Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies ; — Hold you here,...hand, Little flower, — but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is." Thus we are forced... | |
 | L. F. March Phillips - Apologetics - 1883 - 450 pages
...possibilities that are in you. As Tennyson wrote of the little flower : Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies ; — ' Hold you here,...hand, Little flower : — but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and Man is. Well, this intuitive... | |
 | Alfred Williams Momerie - 1883 - 368 pages
...their own experience the force of the profound words of Tennyson : — " Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies ; Hold you here, root...hand, Little flower — but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is. " To the vulgar man,... | |
 | Rev.Henry Mason Baum,Edited By. - 1883 - 636 pages
...interpretation of it. Or, as Tennyson puts it, " Flower in the crannied wall, I would pluck you from the crannies ; Hold you here, root and all. In my hand, Little flower : but if I could understand What you are, root and all, And all in all, I should know what God and man is." One of the commonest... | |
 | Periodicals - 1883 - 680 pages
...touched a deeper or more inexhaustible thought than when ho sung— ' Flowers in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies ;— Hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower—but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all. I should... | |
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