Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more. Poems - Page 46by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 261 pagesFull view - About this book
| Francis Fisher Broune - 1869 - 420 pages
...them all when bless'd thou art, Deal gently-with the stranger's heart! — Mrs. Hemans. WISDOM. — Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and he bears...experience moving toward the stillness of his rest. — Tennyson. RELIGION. — Vex me not with idle questions, Seek no moral to deduce — With the present... | |
| Francis Fisher Browne - 1869 - 926 pages
...them all when bless'd thou art, Deal gently with the stranger's heart I — Mrs. Hemans. WISDOM. — Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and he bears...experience moving toward the stillness of his rest. — Tennyson. RELIGION. — Vex me not with idle questions, Seek no moral to deduce — With the present... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1870 - 264 pages
...reaps not harvest of his youthful joys, Tho' the deep heart of existence beat forever like a boy's ? Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger...Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and he bears a laden brenst, Full of sad experience, moving toward the stillness of his rest. Hark, my merry comrades call... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...reaps not harvest of his youthful joys, Though the. deep heart of existence beat forever like a boy's ? re, the best judge of what was fit ; The deepest,...requital made ; Tuned to the highest key of ancient Rome, bugle horn, — They to whom my foolish passion were a target for their scorn ; Shall it not be scorn... | |
| English poetry - 1871 - 476 pages
...reaps not harvest of his youthful joys, Though the deep heart of existence beat forever like a boy's? Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger...Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and he bears a laden bieast, Full of sad experience, moving toward the stillness of his rest. Hark ! my merry comrades call... | |
| American poetry - 1872 - 900 pages
...reaps not harvest of his youthful joys, Though tile deep heart of existence beat forever like a boy's ? luden breast, Full of sad experience moving toward the stillness of his rest. Hark ! my merry comrades... | |
| Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1872 - 360 pages
...reaps not harvest of his youthful joys, Tho' the deep heart of existence beat forever like a boy'e ! Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger...withers, and the world is more and more. Knowledge comes, bnt wisdom lingers, and be bears a laden breast, Foil of ead experience, moving toward the stillness... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1873 - 532 pages
...reaps not harvest of his youthful joys, Though the deep heart of existence beat forever like a boy's ? Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger...rest. Hark, my merry comrades call me, sounding on tin bugle-horn, They to whom my foolish passion were a target for their scorn : Shall it not be scorn... | |
| H. L. D. Potter - 1873 - 444 pages
...gold, And life is a treasure sublime." — JG CLARK. The final, Ccesural, and Demi-casural Pause : " Knowledge comes, | but wisdom lingers, | and he bears...experience moving | toward the stillness | of his rest." | TENNYSON. * Notice the distinction between rhythm and metre. Metre is applied to words only, while... | |
| Frederick William Robertson - 1873 - 384 pages
...had settled down. Yet is not this the common experience for the first fourfifths of life at least ? , Knowledge comes, but Wisdom lingers, and he bears a laden breast, Full of sad experience moving towards the stillness of his rest. CLXII I. I must acknowledge the truth of what you say in the main,... | |
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