 | Horace Hills Morgan - English literature - 1880 - 476 pages
...thy face, By faith, and faith alone, embrace, 5 Thine are these orbs of light and shade; Thou niadest Life in man and brute; Thou madest Death; and lo!...thou hast made. Thou wilt not leave us in the dust: 10 Thou madest man, he knows not why; He thinks he was not made to die ; And thou hast made him: thou... | |
 | Mary Wilder Tileston - American poetry - 1880 - 248 pages
...are learning The path where Thou dost go. HARRIET WARE HALL. FROM "IN MEMORIAM." STRONG SON OF GOD. STRONG Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have...faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove ! Thou seemest human and divine, The highest, holiest manhood, Thou ; Our wills are ours, we know not... | |
 | Horace Hills Morgan - English literature - 1880 - 474 pages
...century dead ; MO Would start and tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red. IN MEMOEIAM. Strong Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have...seen thy face, By faith, and faith alone, embrace, . s Thine are these orbs of light and shade ; Thou madest Life in man and brute ; Thou madest Death... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1880 - 932 pages
...thrown it on the dust which thou hast made, and Tennyson writes : Strong Son of God, Immortal love Thou madest death, and lo ! thy foot Is on the skull which thou hast made, put in thy horns, O Snail, but otherwise no one is much moved by the striking coincidence, and Mr.... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1881 - 502 pages
...the glimmering statue of Sir Ralph From those nch silks, and home well-pJtased we went IN MEMORIAM. STRONG Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have...madest Death ; and lo, thy foot Is on the skull which them hast made. Thou ffilt not leave us in the dust : Thou madest man, he knows not why ; He thinks... | |
 | Sir William Robertson Nicoll - 1881 - 226 pages
...elaborate comparison between In Memoriam and Shakespeare's Sonnets. ' Strong Son of God, Immortal Love, Thine are these orbs of light and shade ; Thou madest...lo, thy foot Is on the skull which Thou hast made.' In Memoriam. ' Immortal Love, Author of this great frame, Sprung from that beauty which can never fade,... | |
 | Basil Willey - Literary Criticism - 1980 - 310 pages
...of Christianity. Some of its phrases (I have italicized them) show the truth of RH Hutton's comment: 'Strong Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have...faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove; * * * * ยป Thou stemest human and divine, The highest, holiest manhood, thou: Our little systems have... | |
 | Poetry - 1982 - 348 pages
...Upon Thy royal state. Sleep! Sleep, my KINGLY ONE! Elizabeth Barrett Browning 147 . STRONG SON OF GOD Strong Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have...lo, Thy foot Is on the skull which Thou hast made. Forgive these wild and wandering cries, Confusions of a wasted youth; Forgive them where they fail... | |
 | Philip Kitcher - Science - 1983 - 228 pages
...and faith. The opening lines of Tennyson's In Memoriam offer an eloquent statement of the contrast: Strong Son of God, immortal love, Whom we, that have...faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove. A principal theme of Tennyson's great poem is his struggle to maintain faith in the face of what seems... | |
 | W. W. Robson, William Wallace Robson - Literary Criticism - 1984 - 288 pages
...himself, as he was well aware, did not live in an age of faith, and yet he could write a great hymn: Strong Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we that have...faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove. The greatness of In Memoriam is that it destroys any simple contrast between 'faith' and 'doubt'; agnostics... | |
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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... 
