 | 1880 - 494 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Marlborough coll - 1855 - 126 pàgines
...Thy sister Judgement now doth stronger seem Upon the stage, where erst thou played'st thy part : ' 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 ; " A leader false and castaway thou art," She sternly... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 228 pàgines
...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 weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs 78 I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust aiid chaff, and call To what... | |
 | 1850 - 550 pàgines
...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 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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 228 pàgines
...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 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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 422 pàgines
...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 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... | |
 | Margaret Oliphant Oliphant - 1851 - 284 pàgines
...1851. . //7, /7, LONDON: Printed by Schulze and Co., 13, Poland Street. JOHN 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... | |
 | Samuel Phillips - 1852 - 268 pàgines
...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...Altar stairs That slope through darkness up to God." — liv. " The chesnut pattering to the ground" — xi. "With blasts that blow the poplar white" —... | |
 | Samuel Phillips - 1852 - 286 pàgines
...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.... | |
 | Elizabeth Nicholson - 1853 - 412 pàgines
...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 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... | |
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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... 
