 The head hath miss'd an earthly wreath: I curse not nature, no, nor death; For nothing is that errs from law. We pass; the path that each man trod Is dim, or will be dim, with weeds : What fame is left for human deeds In endless age ? It rests with God.  Cairnforth & Sons: A Tale - Page 233by Helen Shipton - 1885 - 320 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 364 pages
...disastrous day ; Touch thy dull goal of joyless gray, And hide thy shame Deneath the ground. LXXII. So'many worlds, so much to do, So little done, such things...need of thee, For thou wert strong as thou wert true ? The fame is quenched that I foresaw, The head hath missed an earthly wreath : I curse not nature... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1862 - 698 pages
...noon, disastrous day ; Touch thy dull goal of joyless gray, And hide thy shame beneath the ground. So many worlds, so much to do, So little done, such...need of thee, For thou wert strong as thou wert true ? The fame is quenched that I foresaw, The head hath missed an earthly wreath : I curse not nature... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1863 - 516 pages
...noon, disastrous day ; Touch thy dull goal of joyless gray, And hide thy shame beneath the ground. LXZL So many worlds, so much to do, So little done, such...need of thee, For thou wert strong as thou wert true ? The fame is quenched that I foresaw, The head hath missed an earthly wreath ; I curse not nature... | |
 | Sir Rutherford Alcock - 1863 - 458 pages
...obtain. Though we may not be over-sanguine if we look at the future by the light of the past — for So many worlds, so much to do, So little done, such things to be, may still describe the feelings with which such far-distant relations are discussed — yet, on Paley's... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1866 - 734 pages
...disastrous day ; Touch thy dull goal of joyless gray, And hide thy shame beneath the ground. LXXII. So many worlds, so much to do, So little done, such things to be, How know 1 what had need of thee, For thou wert strong as thou wert true ? The fame is quench'd that I foresaw,... | |
 | Samuel M. Kennedy - 1867 - 530 pages
...sighing, "Ah, for a man to arise in me, that the man I am may cease to be I" We can feel with him, " So many worlds ! so much to do, so little done, such things to be," and all our life spent like an " infant crying in the night, an infant crying for the light, and with... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1868 - 828 pages
...the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne. Ibid. Ixiii. So many worlds, so much to do, So little done, such things to be. Ibid. Ixxii. Thy leaf has perished in the green. Ibid. Ixxiv. There lives more faith in honest doubt,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1870 - 264 pages
...thy dull goal of joyless gray, And hide thy shame beneuth the ground. LXXH. So many worlds, so mnch to 'do, So little done, such things to be, How know...need of thee, For thou wert strong as thou wert true ? The fame is quench'd that I foresaw, The head hath miss'd an earthly wreath : I curse not nature,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1872 - 498 pages
...disastrous day ; Touch thy dull goal of joyless gray, ' And hide thy shame beneath the ground. LXXII. So many worlds, so much to do, So little done, such...to be, How know I what had need of thee, For thou vvert strong as thou wert true ? The fame is quench'd that I foresaw, The head hath miss'd an earthly... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...tablet glimmers to the dawn. DEATH ix LIFE'S PRIME. So many worlds, so much to do, So little done, surh .B. Ford and Company «trong as thou wert true ? The fame is quenched that 1 foresaw, The head hath missed un earthly wreath... | |
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