 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...  Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature - Seite 3551851Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1906 - 810 Seiten
...Ancient Mariner, lines 232, 233, 598 Alone I did it, SHAKESPEARE, Coriolanus, v, 6 [5] Altar-stairs, — Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God, TENNYSON, In Memoriam, Iv, st, 4 Ambassador, — An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad... | |
 | Emily Vanderbilt Sloane Hammond - 1909 - 398 Seiten
...careth for you. — i PETER 5: 7 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... | |
 | Willis Duke Weatherford - 1911 - 184 Seiten
...The likest God within the soul ? I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of caret 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... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1911 - 642 Seiten
...An infant crying for the light : 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... | |
 | 1911 - 754 Seiten
...outbalances the buoyancy of faith: 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... | |
 | 1888 - 990 Seiten
...and piercing cry of the soul, Faltering where he firmly trod, And falling with his weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God. Yes ! That is the tragedy of the seer's life ! To be haunted with a sense of unseen beauty, with dreams... | |
 | Francis Cotterell Hodgson - 1913 - 464 Seiten
...spectacles of suffering, says : — 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... | |
 | Sir William Barrett - 1917 - 368 Seiten
...in the dark hours of their bereavement. They have seen in it a ray of heavenly light falling — " Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God." NOTE. — There are of course various philosophical theories to account for consciousness and its relation... | |
 | 1918 - 2062 Seiten
...She often brings but one to bear, I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares at his word, He's but a coof for a' that; For a' that, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope. And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord... | |
 | Richard Roberts - 1919 - 216 Seiten
...immortality. The blow left him staggering: "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, 1 The prose quotations from Tennyson in our study are taken from his biography written by his son,... | |
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