 TERMINUS. IT is time to be old, To take in sail : — The god of bounds, Who sets to seas a shore, Came to me in his fatal rounds, And said : ' No more ! No farther shoot Thy broad ambitious branches, and thy root. Fancy departs : no more invent ; Contract...  Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson ... - Page 186by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876Full view - About this book
 | 1867 - 772 pages
...and as for Dave, he and I have struck ile. I 'm going out to look at our property now." TERMINUS.IT is time to be old, To take in sail : — The god of...to me in his fatal rounds, And said, " No more ! No further spread Thy broad ambitious branches, and thy root ; Fancy departs : no more invent, Contract... | |
 | American essays - 1867 - 782 pages
...North Village ; and as for Dave, he and I have struck ile. I 'm going out to look at our property now." TERMINUS. IT is time to be old, To take in sail :...to me in his fatal rounds, And said, " No more ! No further spread Thy broad ambitious branches, and thy root ; Fancy departs : no more invent, Contract... | |
 | American essays - 1867 - 782 pages
...North Village ; and as for Dave, he and I have struck ile. I 'm going out to look at our property now." TERMINUS. IT is time to be old, To take in sail :...to me in his fatal rounds, And said, " No more ! No further spread Thy broad ambitious branches, and thy root ; Fancy departs : no more invent, Contract... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1867 - 226 pages
...thrift, the sleep of cares ; For a proud idleness like this Crowns all thy mean affairs. TERMINUS. TT is time to be old, To take in sail : — The god of...his fatal rounds, And said : ' No more ! No farther spread Thy broad ambitious branches, and thy root. Fancy departs : no more invent, Contract thy firmament... | |
 | Gilbert Haven, Thomas Russell - Methodist Church - 1872 - 282 pages
...latter case, been Apollo also. He descended from his deck, and accepted fate. He confessed that " It was time to be old, To take in sail : The god of bounds, Who sets to seas a shore, Came to him in bis fated rounds, And said ' No more ! ' " He turned his vessel's prow towards the harbour of... | |
 | American poems, William Michael Rossetti - American poetry - 1873 - 556 pages
...drinks it shall not thirst again ; No darkness stains its equal gleam, And ages drop in it like rain. TERMINUS. IT is time to be old, To take in sail :...in his fatal rounds, And said: "No more! No farther spread Thy broad ambitious branches, and thy root. Fancy departs: no more invent; Contract thy firmament... | |
 | Gilbert Haven, Thomas Russell - 1873 - 476 pages
...latter case, been Apollo also. He descended from his deck, and accepted fate. He confessed that " It was time to be old, To take in sail : The god of bounds, Who sets to seas a shore, Came to him in his fated rounds, And said, ' No more I ' " He turned his vessel's prow towards the harbor of... | |
 | American poems - 1878 - 536 pages
...drinks it shall not thirst again; No darkness stains its equal gleam, And ages drop in it like rain. TERMINUS. IT is time to be old, To take in sail :...in his fatal rounds, And said: "No more! No farther spread Thy broad ambitious branches, and thy root. Fancy departs: no more invent; Contract thy firmament... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1881 - 224 pages
...thrift, the sleep uf cares ; For a proud idleness like this Crowns all thy mean affairs. TERMINUS. TT is time to be old, To take in sail : — The god of...his fatal rounds, And said : ' No more ! No farther spread Thy broad ambitious branches, and thy roott Fancy departs : no more invent, Contract thy firmament... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1881 - 224 pages
...thrift, the sleep ,.f cares ; For a proud idleness like thia Crowns all thy mean affairs. TERMINUS. TT is time to be old, To take in sail : — The god of...his fatal rounds, And said : ' No more ! No farther spread Thy broad ambitious branches, and thy root Fancy departs : no more invent, Contract thy firmament... | |
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