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" So many worlds, so much to do, So little done, such things to be, How know I what had 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, no, nor death;... "
Poetical Works - Page 52
by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861
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Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Source : Passages ...

John Bartlett - 1868 - 828 pages
...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,...
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The Afternoon Lectures on Literature & Art

1869 - 384 pages
...friend is quenched by an early death : — " The fame is quench'd that I foresaw, The head hath miss'd an earthly wreath ; I curse, not nature, no, nor death ; For nothing is that errs from law." Even the thought of the foul corruption of the grave is not insupportable : — " I wage not any feud...
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The afternoon lectures on English literature [afterw. on literature and art ...

Afternoon lectures - 1869 - 378 pages
...friend is quenched by an early death : — " The fame is quench'd that I foresaw, The head hath miss'd an earthly wreath ; I curse not nature, no, nor death ; For nothing is that errs from law." Even the thought of the foul corruption of the grave is not insupportable : — " I wage not any feud...
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The Poetical Works

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1872 - 498 pages
...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 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...
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A Library of Poetry and Song: Being Choice Selections from the Best Poets

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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A Library of Poetry and Song: Being Choice Selections from the Best Poets

1872 - 900 pages
...And in the dark church, like a ghost, Thy tablet glimmers to the dawn. DEATH IN LIFE'S PRIME. So many he no f9 1 foresaw, The head hath missed an earthly wreath : I curse not nature, no, nor death ; For nothing...
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The Works of Alfred Tennyson ...

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1872 - 330 pages
...disastrous day ; Touch thy dull goal of joyless gray, And hide thy shame beneath the ground. LXXIII. O many worlds, so much to do, So little done, such things to be, How know I what had need of thec, For thou wert strong as thou wert true ? The fame is quench'd that I foresaw, The head hath miss'd...
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A Library of Poetry and Song: Being Choice Selections from the Best Poets

William Cullen Bryant - 1873 - 906 pages
...And in the dark church, like a ghost, Thy tablet glimmers to the dawn. DEATH IN LIFE'S PRIME. So many turf upheaves, Mellow and dark the ridgy cornfield cleaves ; Up the steep hillside, w theo, For thou wert »trong as thou wert true Î The fame is quenched that I foresaw, The head hath...
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The Repository, Volumes 51-52

1874 - 1002 pages
...perished in the green," and therefore our recollection of him shall have a fadeless freshness. " So many worlds, so much to do, * So little done, such things to be. How know I what had need of thec. For thou wert strong as thou wert true ? The fame is quenched that I foresaw, The head hath missed...
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Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Source Passages and ...

John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 pages
...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,...
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