 As tho' to breathe were life. Life piled on life Were all too little, and of one to me Little remains: but every hour is saved From that eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new things; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard...  The Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson - Page 56by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1870 - 246 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1882 - 432 pages
...end, To rust unburnished, not to shine in use ! As though to breathe were life. Life piled on lift Were all too little, and of one to me Little remains...spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge, like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. This is my son, mine own Telemachus, To whom... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1882 - 906 pages
...use ! As though to breathe were life. Life piled on life Were all too little, and of one to rtie • Little remains : but every hour is saved From that...spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge, like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. This is my son, mine own Telemachus, To whom... | |
 | John Watts De Peyster - 1882 - 174 pages
...unburnish'd, not to shine in use ! As iho' to breathe were life. Life piled on life Were all too little, . . . Little remains : but every hour is saved From that...spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge, like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. ******* There gloom the dark broad seas. My... | |
 | William Swinton - 1882 - 686 pages
...move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnishcd, not to shine in use ! As though to breathe were life. Life piled on life Were all...A bringer of new things; and vile it were For some three-suns to store and hoard myself, And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge,... | |
 | John Watts De Peyster - 1882 - 74 pages
...uset As tho' to breathe were life. Life piled on, life Were all too little, . . . Little remains r but every hour is saved From that eternal silence,...spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge, like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. ******# There gloom the dark broad seas. My... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1883 - 432 pages
...move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnished, not to shine in use 1 As though to breathe were life. Life piled on life Were all...saved From that eternal silence, something more, A hringer of new things ; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself, And this gray... | |
 | Daniel Greenleaf Thompson - 1884 - 632 pages
...There's ever cheer in changing.' ' ' IIow dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnished, not to shine in use ! As tho' to breathe were life, life...spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.' * I will now refer by the following passage... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1884 - 336 pages
...For ever and for ever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use ! As tho' to breathe were life. Life...spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. This is my son, mine own Telemachus, To whom... | |
 | Daniel Greenleaf Thompson - 1884 - 1102 pages
...changing.' ' ' How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unbnrnished, not to shine in use 1 As tho' to breathe were life, life piled on life Were...spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought." * I will now refer by the following passage... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1884 - 136 pages
...in use ! As tho' to breathe were life. Life piled on life Were all too little, and of one to me sea, Little remains : but every hour is saved From that...spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. This is my son, mine own Telemachus, To whom... | |
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