 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
 | 1876 - 832 pages
...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...those who call them friend? For so the whole round world is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God." THE ORPHAN BOY. THE bustle of the fight... | |
 | 1853 - 398 pages
...If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer, Both fcr 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. • TENNYSOK. "TO BE SAVED FIRST IN CASE OF -FIRE." BY MKS. DMF WALKER. SUCH was the inscription on... | |
 | Dinah Maria Craik - 1853 - 376 pages
...212 . 307 . 323 AVILLION; OR, THE HAPPY ISLES. " I am going a long way, With these thou seest—if, indeed, I go— (For all my mind is clouded with a doubt) To the island-valley of Avillion." CHAPTEB I. TENNYSON. WE sat together on the deck, Lilias and I, listening to the boom of... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1854 - 286 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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1854 - 284 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... | |
 | 1854 - 268 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. HEAVENLY HARMONIES. A passage from MILTONS Paradise Lost. No sooner had the Almighty ceased, but all... | |
 | Manchester district Sunday school assoc - 1854 - 270 pages
...than sheep or goats, That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not bands of prayer, Both for themselves, and those who call...every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God." I do think conscientiousness in the faithful discharge of duty is but half the duty of life. The mere... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1879 - 378 pages
...to statistical investigation, and brought, possibly, within reach of the helping hand of science. " For so the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God." It seems reasonable to lay much stress on the unequivocal way in which such calamities as famine make... | |
 | 1854 - 460 pages
...and night. 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, Bo.th for themselves and those who call them, frhinl' . HINTS TO MOTHERS. PHYSICAL EDUCATION. BY AE PORTER. In the report of the annual examination... | |
 | 1884 - 874 pages
...knowing God, they lift not hands in prayer, Both for themselves and those who call them friend? For BO the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about tho feet of God.'" And how beautiful, and striking the key of the poet's thought, in tho Children's... | |
| |
