 Death closes all: but something ere the end, Some work of noble note may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods. The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks: The long day wanes : the slow moon climbs : the deep Moans round with many voices.  Poems - Seite 89von Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1843 - 231 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Peter Bayne - 1879 - 470 Seiten
...again. A wilder set of fellows I have been accustomed to : My mariners, Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me — That ever with a...foreheads — you and I are old ; Old age hath yet his honor and his toil ; Death closes all : but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet... | |
 | 1885 - 478 Seiten
...POTTER, MA EUROPEAN ENTERPRISE IN AUSTRALASIA. xx. THE FIRST COLONY IN THE PACIFIC. " My mariners, . . . you and I are old : Old age hath yet his honour and...the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done. . . . Though much is taken, much abides ; and though We are not now that strength which in olden days... | |
 | William Lucas Collins - 1879 - 154 Seiten
...the vessel puffs her sail : There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toiled, and wrought, and thought with me, That ever with a frolic...welcome took The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed. The metaphor is Homer's, OJyss. xi. 124, Free hearts, free foreheads— you and I are old : Old age... | |
 | Henry Morton Stanley - 1879 - 746 Seiten
...addresses his followers thus: — " My mariners, Souls that have toiled, and wrought, and thought with mo, That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and...sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads : come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world." Push off, and sitting well in order smite... | |
 | Annie Brassey - 1879 - 570 Seiten
...best when his skill or endurance was most severely tried — ' My mariners, Souls that have toiled and wrought and thought with me, That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the sunshine. ' It is always in stormy weather that the good qualities of the British seaman are displayed to the... | |
 | Homerus - 1879 - 70 Seiten
...351. 304-5. These are fine lines. àamivSl, adv. ' without a struggle' : cf. Tennyson's Ulysses — ' But something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done.' 305. цеуа ^{аs. Final vowels in arsis (ie at the beginning of a foot where the voice is raised)... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - 694 Seiten
...vessel puffs her sail ; There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, 45 Souls that have toiled and wrought and thought with me, That ever with a frolic...foreheads, you and I are old. Old age hath yet his honor and his toil. 50 Death closes all ; but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 584 Seiten
...sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads, — you and I are old ; Old age hath yet his honor and his toil; Death closes all : but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done Kot unbecoming men that strove with Gods. The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks : The long day... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1880 - 824 Seiten
...with me, That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the sunshine. • . . You and I are old. Death closes all; but something, ere the end, Some work of noble note may yet be done. . . . Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off ! . . for my purpose holds... | |
 | Abram Henry Herbert Orpen- Palmer - 1880 - 424 Seiten
...look onward and upward with chastened but manly hope,— "Old age hath yet his honour and his toi! ; Death closes all : but something ere the end. Some work of noble note, may yet be done." In any case, all that is lost may be found again in God. The time that has fled from us may Joel ii.... | |
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