| Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...day: Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay. [From In Mtmoriam.] STJtOA'G SOJf OF GOD. STRONG Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have...faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove; Thine are these orbs of light and shade; Thou inadest life in man and brute, Thou inadest Death; and... | |
| 1876 - 516 pages
...Christ, God's elect hero, as Lord and King, saying, in cheerful surrender of heart, and will, and life, " Thou seemest human and divine ; The highest, holiest...not how ; Our wills are ours to make them thine." Christ has wrought with such unwonted skill upon man's disordered nature, harmonizing its painful discords,... | |
| Criticism - 1850 - 676 pages
...breaks out in the opening stanzas like one who feels that he stands upon a solid basis of faith. " Strong Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have...By faith, and faith alone, embrace, Believing where WB cannot prove ; " Thine are these orbs of light and shade ; Thou madest Life in man and brute ; Thou... | |
| Literature - 1850 - 640 pages
...wrestling and achieved repose it is akin to the quiet grandeur of the litany of the Church of England : Strong Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have...faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove : Thine are these orbs of light and shade ; Thou madest Life in man and brute ; Thou madest Death ;... | |
| Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1878 - 530 pages
...will give you rest." Here is the solution of all our doubts, and the realisation of all our hopes. Strong Son of God, immortal love, Whom we, that have...faith alone embrace, Believing where we cannot prove. Our little systems have their day, They have their day and cease to be ; They are but broken lights... | |
| Churches of Christ - 1850 - 590 pages
...not bear his nameis undoubtedly Alfred Tennyson. The following beautiful lines form the proem: — STRONG Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have...faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove. Thine are these orbs of light and shade ; Thou madest life in man and brute ; Thou madest death ; and... | |
| 1850 - 1052 pages
...commences (it will be observed, that he uses small letters where capitals are now customary) : — " Strong Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have...faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove :" And he continues : — " Thou seemest human and divine, The highest, holiest manhood, thou : Our... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English Literature - 1850 - 228 pages
...BY t, ; • ^ IN MEMOEIAM. IiN MEMORIAM. SECOND EDITION". LONDON : EDWARD MOXON, DOVER STREET. 1850. STRONG Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have...faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove ; Thine are these orhs of light and shade ; Thou madest Life in man and hrute ; Thou madest Death ;... | |
| 1850 - 590 pages
...first of living English poets opens his last great work (in refreshing contrast to the book before " Strong Son of God, immortal love, Whom we, that have...faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove : Our little systems have their day ; They have their day and cease to be : They are but broken lights... | |
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