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... Poems: In Two Volumes - Seite 384von Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1863Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Emily Constance Baird Cook - 1903 - 510 Seiten
...many followers. To him, dying in his youthful zeal, Tennyson's lines seem specially appropriate : " So many worlds, so much to do, So little done, such...need of thee, For thou wert strong as thou wert true ? " O hollow wraith of dying fame, Fade wholly, while the soul exults, And self-infolds the large results... | |
| United States. 57th Congress, 1st session, 1901-1902 - 1903 - 94 Seiten
...nearly all appeared, but is still unfinished. Then it is that one can not help thinking or saying: So many worlds, so much to do, So little done, such...need of thee, For thou wert strong as thou wert true. Truly, JOSHUA S. SALMON was strong and he was true. In the prime of life, on the high tide of noble... | |
| Charles Herbert Sylvester - 1903 - 340 Seiten
...veil from coast to coast, And in the dark church like a ghost Thy tablet glimmers to the dawn. LXXIII. So many worlds, so much to do, So little done, such...need of thee, For thou wert strong as thou wert true ? In Aemoriam The fame is quenched that I foresaw, The head hath missed an earthly wreath; I curse... | |
| 1903 - 762 Seiten
...according to what is actually mature and wanted, instead of according to what perhaps may be done." So many worlds, so much to do, So little done, such things to be. No wonder that under such a leader the brethren of New York are encouraged to labor, sometimes against... | |
| Homer Edward Newell - 1980 - 526 Seiten
...course, Still climbing after knowledge infinite. . . . Christopher Marlowe, Conquests of Tamburlaine So many worlds, so much to do, So little done, such things to be. Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam 21 Objectives, Plans, and Budgets As the peak of labor on Apollo... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1907 - 628 Seiten
...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...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... | |
| 1851 - 44 Seiten
...thoughts suggest theinselves. We shall moralize no farther, but commend them to him who reflects, " So many worlds, so much to do, So little done, such things to be." ! of tl)e IDinite. TWAS night, and tired men slumbered, slept and dreamed; And Earth, aweary, bathed... | |
| Homer Edward Newell - 1980 - 532 Seiten
...course, Still climbing after knowledge infinite. . . . Christopher Marlowe, Conquests of Tamburlaine So many worlds, so much to do. So little done, such things to be. Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam 21 Objectives, Plans, and Budgets As the peak of labor on Apollo... | |
| Richard Machin, Christopher Norris - 1987 - 422 Seiten
...fitted mine" (LXXIX). Not much is ever said of this unlikeness, though it has been hinted at earlier: So many worlds, so much to do, So little done, such...need of thee, For thou wert strong as thou wert true? (LXXIII) Hallam's death occurred because his strength was needed elsewhere in a universe imagined as... | |
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