 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...  Poems - Seite 31von Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 261 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Joseph Haven - 1876 - 434 Seiten
...mental resources. He longed with insatiable desire to discover truth; as Tennyson has expressed it, " Yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star Beyond the utmost bound of human thought." How finely expressive of this unsatisfied desire are these lines, which another Grecian poet, Timon... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1876 - 452 Seiten
...something more, A bringer of new things; an'd vile it were For some three suns to Btore and hoard my(aelf, And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyondthe utmost bound of human thought. This is mv son, mine own Telemachus, To whom 1 leave the sceptre... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1879 - 314 Seiten
...that eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new things ; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself, And this gray spirit yearning...Telemachus, To whom I leave the sceptre and the isle — Well loved of me, discerning to fulfil This labor, by slow prndence to make mild A rugged people,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1877 - 392 Seiten
...that eternal silence, something more, A hringer of new things ; and vile it were For some three snus to store and hoard myself, And this gray spirit yearning...follow knowledge, like a sinking star, Beyond the ntmost honnd of hnman thonght. This le my son, mine own Telemachns, To whom I leave the sceptre and... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1877 - 494 Seiten
...that eternal silence, something more, * 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 like a sink ing star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. This is my son, mine own Tclemachus, To whom... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1878 - 688 Seiten
...that eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new things ; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself, And this gray spirit yearning...isle — Well-loved of me, discerning to fulfil This labour, by slow prudence to make mild A rugged people, and thro" soft degrees Subdue them to the useful... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1879 - 236 Seiten
...something more. A brin;j?r of new things ; and vile it were For some three suns to store and board myself, And this gray spirit yearning in desire To...isle — Well-loved of me, discerning to fulfil This labour, by slow prudence to make mild A rugged people, and thro' soft degrees Subdue them to the useful... | |
 | 1879 - 524 Seiten
...that eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new things ; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself, And this gray spirit yearning...thought. This is my son, mine own Telemachus, To whom l leave the sceptre and the isle— W ell-loved of me, discerning to fulfil This labor, by slow prndence... | |
 | 1884 - 682 Seiten
...conceived of him in his old age, after a long, eventful, practical life ; what we may learn from * this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge,...sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought." There is a profound significance in the utterance of one who, in extremest age, has for us these words... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1880 - 388 Seiten
...condition, capabilities. One may be fired with as restless a spirit of inquiry as possessed Ulysses — " Yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought." Another is impelled by avarice; a third by love of excitement ; a fourth by a fear of poverty ; a fifth... | |
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