More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands... Poems Published in 1842: With an Introduction & Notes - Page 158by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1914 - 432 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1909 - 340 pages
...and objectivity on these lower planes. This realisation reveals to us that it is indeed a fact that The whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God. It widens out our horizon, does it not, even to admit the possibility of such a state of things existing... | |
| 1864 - 998 pages
...temples that are made •with hands. A pathetic scene, — recalling the fine words of the poet, — For so the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God. Had the writer of the manifesto, however, witnessed this simple and affecting act of worship, we know... | |
| 1884 - 626 pages
...night and day. For what are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friends ? For so the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God. —... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 250 pages
...night and day. For what are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both...now farewell. I am going a long way With these thou see'st—if indeed I go— (For all my mind is clouded with a doubt) To the island-valley of Avilion... | |
| 1842 - 538 pages
...night and day. For what are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both...every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God." Vol. ii. p. 15. The theology of the first part of these lines we must make over to the Oxford Tracts.... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1846 - 252 pages
...night and day. For what are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both...— (For all my mind is clouded with a doubt) To the island- valley of Avilion ; Where falls not hail, or rain, or any snow, Nor ever wind blows loudly... | |
| Thomas Miller - 1847 - 164 pages
...to me that I am at a spectacle where the Supreme Artist is hid behind the curtain." " For the whole earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God." This little hillock of earth, covered with wild thyme, among which the summer-bees are now murmuring,... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 276 pages
...night and day. For what are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both...mind is clouded with a doubt) To the island-valley of the Avilion; Where falls not hail, or rain, or any snow, Nor ever wind blows loudly ; but it lies Deep-meadowed,... | |
| Sir Arthur Helps - 1848 - 284 pages
...King Arthur to his friend Sir Bedivere upon the more, " I am going a long way ' With thefe thou feeft if indeed I go— ' (For all my mind is clouded with a doubt) ' To the ifland-valley of Avilion ; ' Where falls not hail, or rain, or any fnow, ' Nor ever wind blows loudly... | |
| Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 pages
...night and day. For what are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both...every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God. TENNYSON. Long, long be my heart with such memories fill'd ! Like the vase in which roses have once... | |
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