 | 1883 - 498 pages
...will he realize, more vividly every day, the poet's words : — " I held it true with him who singe To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise...stepping stones Of their dead selves, to higher things." THE END. obtmnfa: I. — DENHOLME. OUR New Schools were opened Nov. 3, by Mr. W. North, of Bradford.... | |
 | 1884 - 656 pages
...of children -who will follow their own wilful way. It may be God's way of saving them after all. " I hold it truth with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things." ealjr 0f AND now that Sarah was dead, Abraham... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 842 pages
...amount of unanimity, wisdom, and virtue."— Gni:ot: Preface to the " Life of Washiaffloii" " I held it truth with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones. That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things." Tennyton't " /» Memvriam." SCRAPS. TIIE SCHOLAR'S... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 228 pages
...fail in truth, And in thy wisdom make me wise. 1849. vii IS MEMOEIAM AHH OBIIT MDCCCXXX1II. I HELD it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things. But who shall so forecast the years And find... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - Grief - 1850 - 228 pages
...fail in truth, And in Thy wisdom make me wise. 1849. vii IN MEMORIAM AHH oBrrr MDCCCXXXIII. I HELD it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things. But who shall so forecast the years And find... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1851 - 582 pages
...explain the reference in the following verse, the first in this beautiful series of poems : •• I held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher thing*. " The following stanza, also in the poem numbered... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 1851 - 422 pages
...where they fail in truth, And in thy wisdom make me wise. 1849. IN MEMOEIAM AHH OEITT MDCccxxxm. I HELD it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things. But who shall so forecast the years And find... | |
 | 1851 - 1200 pages
...familiar simplicity which spoiled some of his earlier writings. It opens finely : — " I held it troth, with him -who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may nse on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things. " But who shall so forecast the years,... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1851 - 568 pages
...explain the reference in the following verse, the first in this beautiful series of poems : " I held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, 1 hat men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things." The following stanza,... | |
 | Periodicals - 1851 - 726 pages
...too familiar simplicity which spoiled some of his earlier writings. It opens finely : — " I held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tone«, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher tilings. " But who shall... | |
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I held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping stones Of their dead selves to higher things. 
