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
| Charles Mills Gayley - 1893 - 608 pages
...Forever and forever 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... | |
| Charles Mills Gayley - 1893 - 638 pages
...Forever and forever 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... | |
| Charles Mills Gayley - 1893 - 654 pages
...Forever and forever 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...vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard mysell, And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the... | |
| Augustus Jessopp - 1893 - 296 pages
...AUGUSTUS JESSOPP, DD Rector of Scorning, Formerly Head Master of King Edward VI. School, Norwich " Life piled on life Were all too little, and of one...silence, something more, A bringer of new things." WITH PORTRAIT NEW YORK GP PUTNAM'S SONS 27 & 29 WEST TWENTY-THIRD ST. x •' •=*»*--*n, j iJW;vi-t--jT«r... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1894 - 178 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... | |
| Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1894 - 536 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. There never was a better description of the... | |
| Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1894 - 498 pages
...rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use ! As tho' to breathe were life. Life piled on life Were all top little, — and of one to me Little remains: but every...spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought There never was a better description of the... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1894 - 922 pages
...tho' to breathe were life. Life piled on life Were all too little, and of one to me sea, TITHONUS. 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... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1894 - 862 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...silence, something more, A bringer of new things ; and viie it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself, And this gray spirit yearning in desire... | |
| Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1894 - 534 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...saved From that eternal silence, something more, A brtnger of new things ; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself, And this gray... | |
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