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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Poems in English 

• The Higher Pantheism poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems by Alfred 1st Baron Tennyson
• The Grandmother poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems by Alfred 1st Baron Tennyson
• The Garden poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems by Alfred 1st Baron Tennyson
• The Flower poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems by Alfred 1st Baron Tennyson
• The Eagle poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems by Alfred 1st Baron Tennyson
• The Deserted House poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems by Alfred 1st Baron Tennyson
• The Brook poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems by Alfred 1st Baron Tennyson
• Tears, Idle Tears poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems by Alfred 1st Baron Tennyson
• Sweet And Low poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems by Alfred 1st Baron Tennyson
• St. Agnes’ Eve poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems by Alfred 1st Baron Tennyson
• Spring poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems by Alfred 1st Baron Tennyson
• Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems by Alfred 1st Baron Tennyson
• Sir Galahad poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems by Alfred 1st Baron Tennyson
• Sea Dreams poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems by Alfred 1st Baron Tennyson
• Requiescat poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems by Alfred 1st Baron Tennyson
• Recollection of the Arabian Nights poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems by Alfred 1st Baron Tennyson
• Princess: A Medley: The splendour falls on castle walls poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems by Alfred 1st Baron Tennyson
• Pelleas And Ettarre poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems by Alfred 1st Baron Tennyson
• Of Old Sat Freedom on the Heights poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems by Alfred 1st Baron Tennyson
• Of Old Sat Freedom poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems by Alfred 1st Baron Tennyson

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