| 1864 - 998 psl.
...hills? Or will good be the final goal of ill ? Will God refuse to destroy one life that he has made ? 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.' These, and such as these, are the questions which assail the modern poet,... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 psl.
...another's gain. Behold we know not any thins: 1 can but trust that good shall fall At last far-off at last, to all, And every winter change to spring....in the night: An infant crying for the light: And with no language but a cry. The wish, that of the living whole No life may fail beyond the grave Derives... | |
| 1860 - 722 psl.
...genius the cross of Christ. Tennyson's painful confession leaps unwittingly from all their lips : " But what am I ? An infant crying in the night; An infant crying for the light ; And with no language but a cry '." We Trait for our Dante and our Milton, who shall pour their alabaster... | |
| 1850 - 676 psl.
...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, ...but what am I ? An infant crying in the night : An infant crying for a light : And with no language but a cry." The above quotation may be supposed to... | |
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1850 - 678 psl.
...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, ...but what am I ? An infant crying in the night : An infant crying for a light : And with no language but a cry." The above quotation may be supposed to... | |
| 1850 - 602 psl.
...destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete : That not a wormjis cloven in vain ; That not a moth with vain desire...from first to last as the poet's confidence, for he everywhere takes the knowledge of the Heart as that margin of experience, of real contact with God,... | |
| 430 psl.
...matters, respecting which no one man can have more positive or certain knowledge than any other man ? What am I ? An infant crying in the night : An infant crying for the light : And with no language but & cry ! TKNNVSON. Sterling read many German books at this time, such as Tholuck... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 272 psl.
...Is 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, ...in the night : An infant crying for the light : And with no language but a cry. LIV. THE wish, that of the living whole No life may fail beyond the grave,... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 228 psl.
...know not anything ; I can but trust that good shall fall At last far off at last, to all, 7'i 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. LIV. THE wish, that of the living whole No life may fail beyond the grave... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 236 psl.
...know not anything ; I can but trust that good shall fall At last far on0 at last, to all, 76 So runs my dream : but what am I ? An infant crying...in the night : An infant crying for the light : And with no language hut a cry. 77 LIT. THE wish, that of the living whole No life may fail beyond the... | |
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