 ULYSSES. IT little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. I cannot rest from travel : I will...  The poetical works of Alfred Tennyson - Page 59by Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1873Full view - About this book
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 250 pages
...plow of pearl Far furrowing into light the mounded rack, Beyond the fair green field and eastern sea. ULYSSES. IT little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1843 - 256 pages
...plow of pearl Far furrowing into light the mounded rack, Beyond the fair green field and eastern sea. ULYSSES. IT little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard,... | |
 | 1911 - 856 pages
...which we will make the speaker's own reply to his own craven fears: — But well l know — That unto him who works, and feels he works, This same grand year is ever at the doors. Harold Spend«: A COUNTRY PRACTICE. Вт л DOOTOB'S W1FE. One day at tea in a country house i 'A Country... | |
 | 1844 - 714 pages
...quoted before, nor have we ever heard anybody name it. Its quietude must steal slowly upon the world. Ulysses. " It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
...plow of pearl Far furrowing into light the mounded rack, Beyond the fair green field and eastern sea. ULYSSES. IT little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match 'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1846 - 252 pages
...seedsman, rapt Upon the teeming harvest, should not dip His hand into the bag : but well I know That unto him who works, and feels he works, This same grand year is ever at the doors." He spoke ; and, high above us, I heard them blast The steep slate-quarry, and the great echo flap And buffet round the hills... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1846 - 254 pages
...plow of pearl Far furrowing into light the mounded rack, Beyond the fair green field and eastern sea. ULYSSES. IT little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard,... | |
 | Marlborough coll - 1855 - 126 pages
...brings with it when well done, for as Tennyson says, in his Golden Year — " But well I know That unto him who works and feels he works, This same grand year is ever at the doors." But if life at Marlborough is glorious in the winter, what is it in the spring, in the summer, in the... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1848 - 372 pages
...brought home to the imagination, leave upon the soul a most profound impression of the author's genius. " ULYSSES. • " It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I meet and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 402 pages
...seedsman, rapt Upon the teeming harvest, should not dip His hand into the bag : but well I know O That unto him who works, and feels he works, This same grand year is ever at the doors." ULYSSES. IT little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd... | |
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