 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
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1880 - 800 Seiten
...the vessel puffs her rail. There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toil'd and wrought and thought 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... | |
 | 1880 - 576 Seiten
...question is in no degree complicated by assonance, and we find that no change at all is needed — You and I are old ; Old age hath yet his honour and his toil ; Death closes ifll : but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that... | |
 | 1880 - 556 Seiten
...fulfil his engagements and to save his family from ruin. He stood high amongst those — " Who ever w'th a frolic welcome took • The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads," among those who have been able to display — " One equal temper of heroic hearts Made weak by time... | |
 | George Barnett Smith - 1880 - 546 Seiten
...which a modern poet has put into the mouth of the King of Ithaca ? — -Souls that h»ve toiled, and wrought, and thought with me — That ever with a frolic welcome took The thnnder and the sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads— yon and I are old ; Old age hath... | |
 | Rayner Winterbotham - 1881 - 526 Seiten
...at his command, and not only so, but laid on Moses as his last great service before his departure. " Old age hath yet his honour and his toil ; Death closes...the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done." Midian did not lie in the way of advancing Israel, as did the hosts of Sihon and Og. In one sense Israel... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1881 - 502 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 iioble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods. The lights begin to twinkle... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1882 - 906 Seiten
...adoration to my household gods, When I am gone. He works his work, I mine. Souls that have toiled, 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... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1882 - 432 Seiten
...There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toiled, and wrought, and thought with I That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and...foreheads — you and I are old; Old age hath yet his honor and his toil ; Death closes sill : but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet... | |
 | John Watts De Peyster - 1882 - 74 Seiten
...of human thought. ******# There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me — That ever with a...sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads — . . . Death closes all ; but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not... | |
 | John Watts De Peyster - 1882 - 76 Seiten
...of human thought. ******* There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me— That ever with a frolic...sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads—- . . . Death closes all ; but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming... | |
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