 Behold, we know not anything; I can but trust that good shall fall At last — far off — at last, to all. And every winter change to spring. So runs my dream : but what am I ? An infant crying in the night : An infant crying for the light : And with...  The Complete Works of Alfred Tennyson - Page 117by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1887 - 482 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1851 - 588 pages
...dispassionately considered. PASSAGES IN THE LIFE OF AN ENQUIRER. CHAP. I. Behold ! we know not anything ; I can but trust that good shall fall At last— far...in the night : An infant crying for the light: And with no language but a cry. — Tennyson. THE words of our motto are the utterance of hope struggling... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 1851 - 422 pages
...Is shrivel'd in a fruitless fire, Or but subserves another's gain. Behold, we know not anything ; I can but trust that good shall fall At last — far...in the night : An infant crying for the light : And with no language but a cry. LIT. THE wish, that of the living whole No life may fail beyond the grave... | |
 | David Thomas - 1884 - 468 pages
...cast as rubbish in the void, When God hath made the pile complete. " Behold, we know not anything : I can but trust that good shall fall At last — far...at last to all, And every winter change to spring." JAMES LEGGE, MA Gamaliel and bis Advice; or the Policy of Caution and Neutrality. " AND NOW I SAY UNTO... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Religious poetry, English - 1854 - 388 pages
...shrivelled in a fruitless fire, Or but subserves another's gain. Behold ! we know not any thing ; I can but trust that good shall fall At last, — far...in the night : An infant crying for the light : And with no language but a cry. O THOU that after toil and storm May'st seem to have reached a purer air,... | |
 | Cyclopaedia, Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 762 pages
...Is shrivell'd in a fruitless fire, Or but subserves another's gain. Behold! we know not anything; I can but trust that good shall fall At last, far off,...in the night; An infant crying for the light; And with no language but a cry. Tennyson. In patience, then, possess thy soul, Stand still! — for while... | |
 | John Wesley Hanson - Universalism - 1854 - 202 pages
...shrivelled in a fruitless fire, Or but subserves another's gain. " Behold ! we know not any thing; 1 con but trust that GOOD SHALL FALL At last— far off—...in the night ; An infant crying for the light ; And with no language but a cry." And again : "That God which ever lives and loves, One God, one law, one... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - Alexandrian school - 1854 - 214 pages
...prayer. A cry for light — by no means, certainly, like that noble one in Tennyson's In Memoriam : — So runs my dream. But what am I ? An infant crying...in the night ; An infant crying for the light ; And with no language but a cry. Yet he asks for light : perhaps he had settled already for himself —... | |
 | Margaret Agnes Paul - 1857 - 336 pages
...WATERS BY THE AUTHOR OP 'DOROTHY' ' Their strength is to sit still.' Behold ! we know not anything ; I can but trust that good shall fall At last— far...at last, to all, And every winter change to spring. In Memorial* . IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. I. LONDON JOHN W. PARKER AND SON WEST STRAND 1857 [ The Author retenet... | |
 | Mrs. H. B. Paull - English fiction - 1857 - 348 pages
...LEIPZIG BERNHARD TAUCHNITZ .1857. "Their strength is to sit still.' Rehold! we know not anything; I can but trust that good shall fall At last— far...at last, to all, And every winter change to spring. In Memoriam. STILL WATERS. CHAPTER I. After them went Displeasure and Pleasaunco, He looking lomplah... | |
 | Reformed Church - 1858 - 664 pages
...ever maketh its inward moan in groaniugs that cannot be uttered. " Behold ! We know not any thing. So runs my dream, but what am I ? An infant crying...in the night ; An infant crying for the light ; And with no language but a cry." "Light, more light," were the last words, it is said, of the dying Goethe."... | |
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