 The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks ; The long day wanes; the slow moon climbs; the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows ; for...  Poems of sentiment and reflection - Sida 29941912Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 252 sidor
...sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads — you and I are old ; Old age hath yet his honour and his toil ; Death closes all : but something ere...Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides ; and tho' We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth... | |
 | 1842 - 538 sidor
...of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods. The lights begin to tumble from the rocks : The long day wanes : the slow moon...Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides ; and tho' We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1843 - 256 sidor
...sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads — you and I are old ; Old age hath yet his honour and his toil ; Death closes all : but something ere...Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides ; and tho' We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth... | |
 | 1844 - 714 sidor
...sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads — you and I are old ; Old age hath yet his honour and his toil ; Death closes all : but something ere...Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides ; and tho' We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth... | |
 | 1845 - 732 sidor
...the vessel puffs her sail : There- gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me — That ever with...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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 sidor
...sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads — you and I are old ; Old age hath yet his honour and his toil ; Death closes all: but something ere...Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides ; and tho' We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1846 - 254 sidor
...sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads — you and I are old : Old age hath yet his honour and his toil ; Death closes all : but something ere...Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides ; and tho' We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1848 - 372 sidor
...Gods. The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks : The long day wanes : the slow moon climbs : ihe deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends,...Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides ; and tho' We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth... | |
 | 1879 - 674 sidor
...have followed Dante and Tasso. In this poem the Grecian hero says : — " Come, my friends, Tl« not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting...down: It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And вес the great Achilles whom we knew." JONATHAN BOUCHIKB. Bexley Heath, Kent. PRATER OF MARY QUEEN... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 300 sidor
...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...though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven ; that which we are, we are ; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by... | |
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