 | 1895 - 588 pages
...fitted for gentler times, but not cast in the heroic mould befitting ' him that strove with gods.' ' Most blameless is he, centred in the sphere Of common...household gods When I am gone. He works his work, I mine.' • •*•*•• ' Though much is taken much abides ; and though We are not now that strength which... | |
 | 1849 - 792 pages
...of me, discerning to fulfil This labour, by slow prudence to make mild A rugged people, and through soft degrees Subdue them to the useful and the good....am gone. He works his work, I mine. There lies the port : the vessel null's his sail : There gloom the dark-blue seas. My mariners, Souls that have toiled,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 252 pages
...Telemachus, To whom I leave the sceptre and the isle — Well-loved of me, discerning to fulfil This labour, by slow prudence to make mild A rugged people, and...am gone. He works his work, I mine. There lies the port : the vessel puffs her sail : There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toil'd,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1843 - 256 pages
...To whom I leave the sceptre and the isle — . Well-loved of me, discerning to fulfil This labour, by slow prudence to make mild A rugged people, and...am gone. He works his work, I mine. There lies the port : the vessel puffs her sail : There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toil'd,and... | |
 | 1844 - 714 pages
...Telemachus, To whom I leave the sceptre and the isle — Well-loved of me, discerning to fulfil This labour, by slow prudence to make mild A rugged people, and...tenderness, and pay Meet adoration to my household gods When 1 am gone. He works his work, I mine. There lies the port : the vessel puffs her sail ; There gloom... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
...Telemachus, To whom I leave the sceptre and the isle — Well-loved of me, discerning to fulfil This labour, by slow prudence to make mild A rugged people, and...am gone. He works his work, I mine. There lies the port : the vessel puffs her sail : There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toil'd,... | |
 | 1845 - 732 pages
...sceptre and the isle — 1845.] [July, Well loved of me, discerning to fulfill This labor, by sluw prudence to make mild A rugged people, and thro' soft...tenderness, and pay Meet adoration to my household gods When 1 am gone. He works his work, I in inc. There lies the port : the vessel puffs her sail : There- gloom... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1846 - 254 pages
...Telemachus, To whom I leave the sceptre and the isle — Well-loved of me, discerning to fulfil This labour, by slow prudence to make mild A rugged people, and...am gone. He works his work, I mine. There lies the port : the vessel puffs her sail : There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toil'd,... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1848 - 372 pages
...own Telemachus, To whom I leave the sceptre and the isle — Well loved of me, discerning to fulfill This labor, by slow prudence to make mild A rugged...household gods When I am gone. He works his work, I mine. 15* There lies the port : the vessel puffs her sail : There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners,... | |
 | 1849 - 864 pages
...of me, discerning to fulfil This labour, by slow prudence to make mild A rugged people, and through soft degrees Subdue them to the useful and the good....tenderness, and pay Meet adoration to my household gode When I am gone. He works bis work, I mine. There lies the port : the vessel puffs his sail : There... | |
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A rugged people, and thro' soft degrees Subdue them to the useful and the good. Most blameless is he, centred in the sphere Of common duties, decent not to fail In offices of tenderness, and pay Meet adoration to my household gods, When I am gone. He... 
