 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
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1882 - 442 Seiten
...the trust which was once committed to him, and which he and his generation have handed down to us. Something ere the end, Some work of noble note may yet be done . . . 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world, . . . Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will,... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1882 - 402 Seiten
...the trust which was once committed to him, and which he and his generation have handed down to us. Something ere the end, Some work of noble note may yet be done . . . 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world, . . . Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will,... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1883 - 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...Free hearts, free foreheads — you and I are old j Old age hath yet his honor and his toil ; Death closes all : but something ere the end, Some work... | |
 | Thomas Brassey (1st earl.) - 1883 - 650 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 greatest... | |
 | 1883 - 778 Seiten
...battled to fulfil his engagements and to save his family from ruin. He stood high amongst those — " Who ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the...sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads," 8 among tno.se who have been able to display — " One equal temper of heroic hearts Made weak by time... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1883 - 740 Seiten
...gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, [and thought with me — Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed [are old ; Free hearts, free foreheads — you and I vOld age hath yet his honor and his toil ; Death... | |
 | Earl Thomas Brassey Brassey - 1883 - 646 Seiten
...or endurance was most severely tried — My mariners, Souls thut have toiled and wrought and thunght 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 greatest... | |
 | Augusta Jane Wilson - 1883 - 380 Seiten
...closing lines of ' Ulysses • nobly refute all the mumbling heresy of the ' Lotos Eaters,'— . . . . ' But something ere the end, Some work of noble note may yet be done. That which we are, we are ; One equal templer of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1883 - 528 Seiten
...him. The feeling so beautifully described by the modern poet is there first shadowed forth in action : Something ere the end, Some work of noble note may yet be done . . 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world . . . Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To... | |
 | William Swinton - 1885 - 624 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...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... | |
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