 | Religion - 1986 - 224 pages
...the prelude selections played at the start of this service are also from Tennyson's "In Memoriam": Strong Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have...faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove. We have but faith: we cannot know, For knowledge is of things we see; And yet we trust it conies from... | |
 | Richard Machin, Christopher Norris - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 422 pages
...stanza of the Prologue voices an ostensibly confident faith and strongly echoes the New Testament: Strong Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have...faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove. There are several possible references here. The one mentioned by Tennyson himself4 is 1 John 4:12:... | |
 | Canterbury Press - Religion - 1989 - 540 pages
...each day more glorious, more endeared, Christ human, Christ divine. William Bright 1 824-1901 t 455 Strong Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have...faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove: 2 Thou wilt not leave us in the dust; Thou seemest human and divine, The highest, holiest manhood thou:... | |
 | Lance St. John Butler - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 244 pages
...the strain of chronic doubt creeping into even this most Christian section of In Memoriam. It opens Strong Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have...Death and lo, Thy foot Is on the skull which thou has made. Thou wilt not leave us in the dust: Thou madest man, he knows not why, He thinks he was not... | |
 | Peter Bingham Hinchliff - History - 1992 - 286 pages
...wholeheartedly (even if he preferred Browning's rather turgid and prolix poems, Christmas Eve and Easter Strong Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have...are these orbs of light and shade; Thou madest Life m man and brute; Thou madest Death; and lo, thy foot Is on the skull which thou hast made. Thou wilt... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...and unfaith can ne'er be equal powers: Unfaith in aught is want of faith in all. In Memoriam AHH 16 covered. (1. 5-8) 2 here my clustering fruits I tend;...of day. Fresh garlands weave, and chase from all m (Fr. Proem, I. 1—4) 17 Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be: They... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1995 - 244 pages
...thou, and slip Into my bosom and be lost in me.' From IN MEMORIAM AHH OB1IT MDCCCXXXIII [Prologue] Strong Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have...embrace. Believing where we cannot prove; Thine are those orbs of light and shade; Thou madest Life in man and brute; Thou madest Death; and lo, thy foot... | |
 | William J. Federer, William Joseph Federer - Literary Collections - 1994 - 868 pages
...Whom we, that have not seen Thy face, By faith, and faith alone, embrace, Believing where we can not prove! Thine are these orbs of light and shade; Thou...lo, Thy foot Is on the skull which Thou hast made! Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Thou wilt not leave us in the dust; Thou madest man, he knows not why; He thinks... | |
 | Charles Villa-Vicencio - Religion - 2023 - 340 pages
...during their student days, often quoted these words: Strong Son of God, immortal love, Who we, who have not seen thy face By faith and faith alone embrace, Believing what we cannot prove. I tell him that Govan Mbeki recalled these words in the same way, insisting that... | |
 | R. L. Brett - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 280 pages
...completed, and especially in the following stanzas where the divine initiative and man's response meet: Strong Son of god, Immortal Love, Whom we, that have not seen thy face, By faith, and and faith alone embrace, Believing where we cannot prove; Thou seemest human and divine. The highest,... | |
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STRONG Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have not seen Thy face, By faith, and faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove... 
