The Hands That Hang Down

O Lord, I am so tired!

My heart is sick and sore.

I work, and work, and do no good-

And I can try no more!

I lay my treasures up,

And think they’re worth such care;

And the next time I go to look,

There’s only rubbish there!

I tug hard at the door

Of knowledge-strain and pant;

But, Lord, the more I seem to learn,

The more I’m ignorant!

Sometimes I am so vain

I set myself to teach;

But e’en the first beginnings lie

Utterly out of reach!

I am no use-no use!

I thought I might have been;

But now I know how small I am,

How poor, how false, how mean!

Sunk in the dust and mire

While aiming at the skies,

Only a thing to laugh at, Lord,

To pity and despise!

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• In Memoriam A. H. H.: 121. Sad Hesper o’er the buried sun poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems by Alfred 1st Baron Tennyson
• In Memoriam A. H. H.: 11. Calm is the morn without a sound poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems by Alfred 1st Baron Tennyson
• In Memoriam A. H. H.: 118. Contemplate all this work of Tim poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems by Alfred 1st Baron Tennyson
• In Memoriam A. H. H.: 105. To-night ungather’d let us leave poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems by Alfred 1st Baron Tennyson
• In Memoriam 82: I Wage Not Any Feud With Death poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems by Alfred 1st Baron Tennyson
• In Memoriam 3: O Sorrow, Cruel Fellowship poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems by Alfred 1st Baron Tennyson
• In Memoriam 16: I envy not in any moods poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems by Alfred 1st Baron Tennyson
• In Memoriam 131: O Living Will That Shalt Endure poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems by Alfred 1st Baron Tennyson
• Idylls of the King: The Passing of Arthur (excerpt) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems by Alfred 1st Baron Tennyson
• Idylls of the King: The Marriage of Geraint poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems by Alfred 1st Baron Tennyson
• Idylls of the King: The Last Tournament (excerpt) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems by Alfred 1st Baron Tennyson
• Idylls Of The King: Song From The Marriage Of Geraint poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems by Alfred 1st Baron Tennyson
• How Thought You That This Thing Could Captivate? poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems by Alfred 1st Baron Tennyson
• Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems by Alfred 1st Baron Tennyson
• Hendecasyllabics poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems by Alfred 1st Baron Tennyson
• Guinevere poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems by Alfred 1st Baron Tennyson
• Gareth And Lynette poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems by Alfred 1st Baron Tennyson
• Fatima | Best Love Poems by Alfred 1st Baron Tennyson
• Enoch Arden poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems by Alfred 1st Baron Tennyson
• Duet poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems by Alfred 1st Baron Tennyson

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