 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
 | William James Dawson - 1890 - 396 pages
...loosened manes, And beat the twilight into flakes of f1re. Or the farewell of Ulysses, when he cries : — Come, my friends, Tis not too late to seek a newer...and the baths Of all the western stars until I die. These are but random samples of the perfection to which Tennyson has wrought his art in the faithful... | |
 | 1890 - 792 pages
...graded on a scale of 100, • and I will be deducted for each word incorrectly written. READING. — " Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer...sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die.'1 — From Ttnnrson's "Ulysses." 1. Ask 10 suitable questions, calculated to bring out the meaning... | |
 | Hamilton Wright Mabie - 1890 - 218 pages
...to the music of his last appeal, spoken through one of the greatest of our modern poets: " "Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and, sitting...the baths Of all the western stars, until I die." Those to whom the impulse to wander comes in vain are not without their consolations; the most adventurous... | |
 | David Boyd - 1890 - 514 pages
...things." * * " There lies the port; the vessel puffs her sails. There gloam the dark broad seas." * » " Come my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer...my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the bath Of all the western stars until I die. It may be the gulfs will wash us down , It may be we shall... | |
 | Edward Brooks - 1891 - 398 pages
...new adventures. " Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and setting well in order, smite The sounding furrows; for my...Western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs shall wash us down; It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew."... | |
 | Charles Mills Gayley - 1893 - 652 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...sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until 1 die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down: It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1894 - 536 pages
...Ulysses, and enjoyed greatly, on shore, and when Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades Vext the dim i Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding...the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It lives in The Voyage, that delightful poem, with its double meaning, half of the life on the sea and... | |
 | Margaret Sullivan Mooney - 1895 - 350 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...I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down: And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides : and tho' We are not now... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1895 - 810 pages
...lights begin to twinkle from the rocks : The long day wanes : the slow moon climbs : friends, T ia not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting...the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gnlfs will wash us down : It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1895 - 870 pages
...Moans round with many voices. Come, nn friends, Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push ..»ff, and. sitting well in order, smite The sounding furrows...die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down : It nay be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tbo* much is taken,... | |
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