Death closes all: but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods. The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks: The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices.... The works of Alfred Tennyson. With 25 illustr - Page 108by Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1881Full view - About this book
| England - 1849 - 792 pages
...you and I are old ; Old age hath yet his honour and his toil ; Death closes all : but something civ the end, , Some work of noble note, may yet be done,...holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of nil the western stars, until I die." St Simeon Stylites is a poem strongly and justly conceived, and... | |
| 1849 - 608 pages
...lights begin to twinkle from the rocks : The long day wanes : the slow moon climbs : the deep Hoans round with many voices. Come, my friends, Tis not...the baths Of all the western stars, until I die." Si. Simeon Stylitei is a poem strongly and justly conceived, and written throughout with sustained... | |
| Periodicals - 1845 - 732 pages
...sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads — you and I are old; Old age hath yet his honor and his toil ; Death closes all: but something ere...It may be that the gulfs will wash us down : It may I« we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much... | |
| Scotland - 1849 - 864 pages
...: the vessel puffs his sail : There gloom the dark-blue seas. My mariners, Souls that have toiled, and wrought, and thought with me — That ever with...the baths Of all the western stars, until I die." St Simeon Stylites is a poem strongly and justly conceived, and written throughout with sustained and... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1849 - 608 pages
...sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads — you and I aie old: Old age hath yet his honor and his toil ; Death closes all : but something ere...the baths Of all the western stars, until I die." Si. Simeon Slyliles ¡sa poem strongly and justly conceived, and written throughout with sustained... | |
| M. Edgeworth Lazurus - Hygiene - 1852 - 458 pages
...day wanes : the slow moon climbs : the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, 'T is not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting...Sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until 1 die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down : It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see... | |
| 1852 - 518 pages
...life itself well spent in the search. ' 1 cannot rest from travel, I will drink Life to the lees. * * For my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset and...It may be that the gulfs will wash us down ; It may he we shall touch the happy isles.' Both have for their object the vast field of man and nature, and... | |
| Whitnash rectory - 1866 - 478 pages
...not to fail In offices of tenderness, and pay Meet adoration to my household gods, When I am gone. He works his work, I mine. There lies the port : the...holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, unt il I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down : It may be we shall... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1868 - 402 pages
...not to fail In offices of tenderness, and pay Meet adoration to my household gods, When I am gone. He works his work, I mine. There lies the port : the...It may be that the gulfs will wash us down : It may bo we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much... | |
| Cheltenham College - College verse - 1868 - 570 pages
...residens, nimium crudelia mecum Fata gemo, amissis pennis, exsulque Deorum." A. I). G., i8j2. ULYSSES. THERE lies the port : the vessel puffs her sail :...smite The sounding furrows : for my purpose holds GREEK HEXAMETERS. IIAHSION IffTi \4¿r¡v, гетата.1 S' ava laTÍa vr)Ó4, KeWi áXoc /meya \aÍTfía,... | |
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