 | English poetry - 1896 - 532 pages
...Telemachus, To whom I leave the sceptre and the isle — Well-loved of me, discerning to fulfil This labour, by slow prudence to make mild A rugged people, and...am gone. He works his work, I mine. There lies the port: the vessel puffs her sail: There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toil'd,... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1896 - 630 pages
...of me, discerning to fulfill This labor, by slow prudence to make mild A rugged people, and through soft degrees Subdue them to the useful and the good....am gone. He works his work, I mine. There lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail; There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners. Souls that have toiled,... | |
 | John Piersol McCaskey - American literature - 1897 - 592 pages
...of me, discerning to fulfill This labor by slow prudence to make mild A rugged people, and through soft degrees Subdue them to the useful and the good....am gone. He works his work, I mine. There lies the port: the vessel puffs her sail: There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toiled,... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, George Henry Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne - Anthologies - 1897 - 684 pages
...of me, discerning to fulfill This labor, by slow prudence to make mild A rugged people, and through soft degrees Subdue them to the useful and the good....am gone. He works his work, I mine. There lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail; There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toiled,... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 580 pages
...arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades Forever and forever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish'd,...am gone. He works his work, I mine. There lies the port : the vessel puffs her sail : There gloom the dark, broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toil'd,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - British literature - 1898 - 916 pages
...and hoard .f. 'i And this gray spirit yearning in desire 33 To follow knowledge Kke a sinking star, i nnyson 40 In offices of tenderness, and pay Meet adoration to my household gods, When I am gone. He works... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1907 - 628 pages
...Telemachus, To whom I leave the sceptre and the isle — Well-loved of me, discerning to fulfil This labour, by slow prudence to make mild A rugged people, and...am gone. He works his work, I mine. There lies the port : the vessel puffs her sail : There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toil'd,... | |
 | Adena Rosmarin - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 218 pages
...of me, discerning to fulfil This labour, by slow prudence to make mild A rugged people, and through soft degrees Subdue them to the useful and the good....household gods, When I am gone. He works his work, I mine. (11. 33-43) These passages must trouble attempts to read the poem lyrically. The "aged wife" is Penelope,... | |
 | R. P. Hewett - English Poetry - 1985 - 322 pages
...To whom I leave the sceptre and the isle — Well-loved of me, discerning to fulfil 35 This labour, by slow prudence to make mild A rugged people, and...in the sphere Of common duties, decent not to fail 40 In offices of tenderness, and pay Meet adoration to my household gods, When I am gone. He works... | |
 | Charles Mills Gayley - Art - 1995 - 682 pages
...the utmost bound of human thought. This is my son, mine own Telemachus, To whom I leave the scepter and the isle — Well-loved of me, discerning to fulfil...to the useful and the good. Most blameless is he, centered in the sphere Of common duties, decent not to fail In offices of tenderness, and pay Meet... | |
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A rugged people, and thro' soft degrees Subdue them to the useful and the good. Most blameless is he, centred in the sphere Of common duties, decent not to fail In offices of tenderness, and pay Meet adoration to my household gods, When I am gone. He... 
