 God ! Steel me with patience! soften me with grief! Let blow the trumpet strongly while I pray, Till this embattled wall of unbelief My prison, not my fortress, fall away! Then, if Thou wiliest, let my day be brief, So Thou wilt strike Thy glory thro  The Death of Œnone, Akbar's Dream, and Other Poems - Page 104by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1892 - 113 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - English periodicals - 1893 - 576 pages
...form Of constant beauty.' ' And at the close of his life his one prayer is that doubt may perish : 2 ' Steel me with patience ! soften me with grief ! Let...prison, not my fortress, fall away ! Then, if Thou wiliest, let my day be brief, So Thou wilt strike Thy glory thro' the day.' ' My prison, not my fortress.'... | |
 | William George Jordan, Adr Schade van Westrum - American literature - 1893 - 348 pages
...is, and was, My Father, and my Brother, and my God ! Steel me with patience! soften me with griei ! Let blow the trumpet strongly while I pray, Till this...prison, not my fortress, fall away ! Then, if thou wiliest, let my day be brief, So thou wilt strike Thy glory thro' the day." I know few things more... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1892 - 896 pages
...flower and grass, Before I learn that Love, which is, and was My Father, and my Brother, and my God ! Steel me with patience ! soften me with grief! Let...brief, So Thou wilt strike Thy glory thro' the day. FAITH— DEATH OF THE DUKE OF CLARENCE. FAITH. DOUBT no longer that the Highest is the wisest and the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1892 - 904 pages
...flower and grass, Before I learn that Love, which is, and was My Father, and my Brother, and my God! Steel me with patience ! soften me with grief! Let...prison, not my fortress, fall away ! Then, if thou wiliest, let my Hay be brief, So Thou wilt strike Thy glory thro' the day. FAITH— DEATH OF THE DUKE... | |
 | Edward Campbell Tainsh - 1893 - 338 pages
...flower and grass Before I learn that Love, which is, and was My Father, and my Brother, and my God ! Steel me with patience ! soften me with grief ! Let...prison, not my fortress, fall away ! Then, if Thou wiliest, let my day be brief, So Thou wilt strike Thy glory through the day." This is fuller. Perhaps... | |
 | John Cuming Walters - 1893 - 394 pages
...of over-ruling Providence, could at the last pray to " My Father, and my Brother, and my God " — Steel me with patience ! soften me with grief ! Let...of unbelief My prison, not my fortress, fall away ! The right note was struck in Locksley Hall Sixty Years After, a poem which drew from Walt Whitman... | |
 | Amelia E. Barr - 1893 - 242 pages
...' Alas 1 ' From sin through sorrow into Thee we pass, By that same path our true forefathers trod. Steel me with patience ! soften me with grief ! Let...unbelief, My prison, not my fortress, fall away." CHAPTER X. In the latter days The Lord thy " Provider " shall giye When thou knowest His gift. Look... | |
 | John Cuming Walters - 1893 - 384 pages
...of over-ruling Providence, could at the last pray to " My Father, and my Brother, and my God " — Steel me with patience ! soften me with grief ! Let...pray, Till this embattled wall of unbelief My prison, pot my fortress, fall away ! The right note was struck in Locksley Hall Sixty Years After, a poem which... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1894 - 922 pages
...flower and grass, Before I learn that Love, which is, and was My Father, and my Brother, and my God! Steel me with patience ! soften me with grief! Let...prison, not my fortress, fall away ! Then, if thou wiliest, let my day be brief, So Thou wilt strike Thy glory thro' the day. FAITH— DEATH Ol- THE DUKE... | |
 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - English literature - 1895 - 944 pages
...flower and grass, Before I learn that Love, which is, and was My Father, and my Brother, and my God ! Steel me with patience ! soften me with grief ! Let...let my day be brief, So Thou wilt strike Thy glory through the day." FAITH. I. " Doubt no longer that the Highest is the wisest and the best. Let not... | |
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