The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks: ! The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows ;... The Christian Teacher - Page 3451842Full view - About this book
| Anthony Trollope - 1872 - 758 pages
...Thank God I was born Ax 3 B "WANTED— A CAREER ! " A COLONIST'S ADVICE TO CERTAIN BRITISH FATHERS. " Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer...sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows." — Tennyson's Ulysses. THE British father, of what I may call the middle-middle class, must frequently... | |
| 1872 - 760 pages
...IRRECONCILKABLB. vor.. xl. 3 B "WANTED— A CAREEE!" A COLONIST'S ADVICE TO CERTAIN BRITISH FATHERS. " Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer...sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows." — Tennyson's Ulysses. THE British father, of what I may call the middle-middle class, must frequently... | |
| Frederick Arnold - 1871 - 526 pages
...waters, where the sun and stars sank and were quenched. So the poet represents Ulysses as saying, " My purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset and the baths Of all the western stars until I die." Homer appears to have had some knowledge of the south and east, and his descriptions of places, though... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1873 - 532 pages
...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...holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of ah1 the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down,: It may be we shall... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1874 - 200 pages
...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...sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows ; for fny purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. .... | |
| Benjamin Cummings Truman - 1874 - 230 pages
...grated the keel of the shallop of the worn and weary king, who, bidding his friends farewell, exclaimed: "My purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset and the baths Of all the western stars until I die." Above us the mid-day sun gleamed from an undimmed zenith, and the waste of waters, just stirred to... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1874 - 584 pages
...Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods. The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks: The long iUiy wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, 'TU not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order, smite The sounding furrows;... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1875 - 356 pages
...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...and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. ca It may be that the gulfs will wash us down : It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 588 pages
...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...my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the batlis Of all the western stars, until I die. It maybe that the gulfs will wash us down : It may lie... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1875 - 494 pages
...noble note, may yetbe done, Not unbecoming men that strove with. Gods. The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks : The long day wanes : the slow moon...smite The sounding furrows ; for my purpose holds " There lies the port : the vessel puffs her sail: There gloom the dark bread seas." To sail beyond... | |
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