 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
 | United States - 1881 - 1180 pages
...: the slow moon climbs : the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, 'Tis not too bte to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well...the baths Of all the western stars, until I die." If the same test be applied to the works of almost any other poet, we shall find a very different result.... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - American poetry - 1882 - 906 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...my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the batbs Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down : It may be... | |
 | John Watts De Peyster - 1882 - 74 pages
...the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with Goda. . . . Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer...furrows ; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sun [rise] . . . Until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down : It may be we shall touch... | |
 | John Watts De Peyster - 1882 - 174 pages
...the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods. . . . Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer...furrows ; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sun [rise] . . . Until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down : It may be we shall touch... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1883 - 740 pages
...day wanes : the slow moon climbs : the deep [my friends, Moans round with many voices. Come, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting...I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down : [Isles, It may be we shall touch the Happy And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. [tho' Tho' much... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1885 - 526 pages
...opposed / Free hearts, free foreheads -/yon and I are old ; • '« — Old age hath yet his honor and his toil ; Death closes all: but something ere...gulfs will wash us down: It may be we shall touch the Happy IsIes, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides ; and tllQ'... | |
 | William Swinton - American literature - 1886 - 690 pages
...The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks ; The long day wanes ; the slow moon climbs ; the deep ss Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, 'Tis...my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths &, Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down ; It may... | |
 | Albert Franklin Blaisdell - Readers, American - 1888 - 366 pages
...The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks ; The long day wanes ; the slow moon climbs ; the deep 55 Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, 'Tis...my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths 6° Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down ; It may... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson, Frederick James Rowe, William Trego Webb - 1890 - 178 pages
...opposed Free hearts, free foreheads — you and I are old ; Old age hath yet his honour and his toil ; 50 Death closes all : but something ere the end, Some...my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths 60 Of all tlie western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down : It may... | |
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