 | William John Knox Little - 1898 - 408 pages
...wrought on form and face ; No lower life that earth's embrace May breed with him, can fright my faith. " Eternal process moving on, From state to state the spirit walks ; And these arc but the shattor'd stalks, Or ruin'd chrysalis of one. " Nor blame I Death, because ho bare The... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1898 - 928 pages
...lower life that earth's embrace May breed with him can fright my faith. Eternal process moving on, And these are but the shatter'd stalks, Or ruin'd chrysalis of one. From state to state the spirit walks; Nor blame I Death, because he bare The use of virtue out of earth;... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1899 - 382 pages
...wrought on form and face ; No lower life that earth's embrace May breed with him, can fright my faith. Eternal process moving on, From state to state the...the shatter'd stalks, Or ruin'd chrysalis of one. Nor blame I Death, because he bare The use of virtue out of earth : I know transplanted human worth... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1899 - 996 pages
...wrought on form and face; No lower life that earth's embrace May breed with him can fright my faith. Eternal process moving on. From state to state the spirit walks ; And these are but the shntter'd stalks, Or ruin'd chrysalis of one. Nor blame I Death, because IIP bare The use of virtue... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1900 - 144 pages
...wrought on form and face; No lower life that earth's embrace May breed with him, can fright my faith. Eternal process moving on, From state to state the spirit walks; And these are but the shatter' d stalks, Or ruin'd chrysalis of one. Nor blame I Death, because he bare The use of virtue... | |
 | 1900 - 780 pages
...to better things to be. All this entered into Tennyson's conception of immortality and faith in it : "Eternal process, moving on, From state to state the spirit walks." And his God, the Reality in which his conviction centered, was not a huge Being outside nature and life,... | |
 | Francis St. John Thackeray, Edward Daniel Stone - 1902 - 324 pages
...wrought on form and face ; No lower life that earth's embrace May breed with him, can fright my faith. Eternal process moving on, From state to state the...the shatter'd stalks, Or ruin'd chrysalis of one. Nor blame I Death, because he bare The use of virtue out of earth : I know transplanted human worth... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1902 - 358 pages
...lower life that earth's embrace May breed with him, can fright my faith. Eternal process moving on, 5 From state to state the spirit walks ; And these are...the shatter'd stalks, Or ruin'd chrysalis of one. Nor blame I Death, because he bare The use of virtue out of earth: 10 I know transplanted human worth... | |
 | Robert Naylor Whiteford - 1903 - 464 pages
...were always present. Some quotations from the poets will aid in interpreting these difficult lines. " Eternal process moving on, From state to state the...the shatter'd stalks, Or ruin'd chrysalis of one. " — /» Afemoriam, LXXXII. And this from Tennyson, when he wrote with a rapturous gleam in his eye... | |
 | 1903 - 258 pages
...type—so we may hope that there are still higher grades of existence for immortal souls, and we may say— Eternal process moving on, From state to state the...walks, And these are but the shatter'd stalks, Or ruined chrysalis of one. Nor blame I death because he bare, The use of virtue out of earth; I know... | |
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I WAGE not any feud with Death For changes wrought on form and face ; No lower life that earth's embrace May breed with him can fright my faith. Eternal process moving on, From state to state the spirit walks ; And these are but the shatter'd stalks,... 
