 | 1864 - 998 pages
...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,... | |
 | 1883 - 498 pages
...may be our personal views, may we not ask the question that Tennyson asks in the following verse ? " The wish that of the living whole No life may fail...from what we have ? The likest God within the soul." (Concluded. in our next.) .frmtir 0r A SEQUEL TO "OLIVER RAYMOND." BY B. JOSEPH AXTON. CHAPTER XI.... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1860 - 722 pages
...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... | |
 | Criticism - 1850 - 676 pages
...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 a light : And with no language but a cry." The above quotation may be supposed to... | |
 | American literature - 1850 - 602 pages
...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 no language but a cry." — p. 77. This subservience of Knowledge to Faith appears from first... | |
 | 1879 - 826 pages
...I falter where I firmly trod." And thus his " larger hope," originating in sentiment, " The jci's/i that of the living whole No life may fail beyond the grave," is found in conflict with " Nature's evil dreams," which so-called evil dreams form a strong analogical... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1898 - 664 pages
...lines. They were not consciously in my mind when I wrote the note ante, p. 18. ' In Memoriam,' Iv. — The wish that of the living whole No life may fail...not from what we have The likest God within the soul Î MR. CL FORD (ante, p. 110) seems to me to misinterpret this stanza when he saye :— "The very words... | |
 | 430 pages
...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... | |
 | 1850 - 602 pages
...a protest and protection against the heartless mockery of any " remerging in the general Soul." * " The wish that of the living whole No life may fail...not from what we have The likest God within the soul ? 1850.] IN MEMORIAM. Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams ? So careful... | |
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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. 
