 As tho' to breathe were life. Life piled on life Were all too little, and of one to me Little remains: but every hour is saved From that eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new things; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard...  The Works of Alfred Tennyson, Poet Laureate - Page 107by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1878 - 665 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Mills Gayley, Clement Calhoun Young - English poetry - 1905 - 726 pages
...in use ! As tho' to breathe were life. Life piled on life Were all too little, and of one to me 25 Little remains : but every hour is saved From that...hoard myself, And this gray spirit yearning in desire 30 To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. This is my son,... | |
 | 1906 - 950 pages
...move. I tow dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnished, not to shine in use ! As though to breathe were life. Life piled on life Were all...is my son, mine own Telemachus, To whom I leave the scepter and the isle : Well loved of me, discerning to fulfill This labor, by slow prudence to make... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1906 - 648 pages
...when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use ! 1As tho' to breathe were life. Life piled on life Were...sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. \ Well-loved of mej d1scern1ng to fulfil TH1slabour, by slow prudence to make mild A rugged people,... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - English literature - 1906 - 844 pages
...end, To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use! As tho' to breathe were life. Life piled on life ae Were all too little, and of one to me Little remains:...were For some three suns to store and" hoard myself, so And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost... | |
 | E. F. Davidson - English poetry - 1906 - 120 pages
...shine in use! As tho' to breathe were life. Life piled on life Were all too little, and of one to me 25 Little remains : but every hour is saved From that...hoard myself, And this gray spirit yearning in desire 30 To follow knowledge, like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. This is my son,... | |
 | John Harrower - English poetry - 1907 - 356 pages
...wherethro' Gleams that uiitravell'd world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish'd,...sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought TENNYSON. ¿<ттг) ßporiav T/HMTOVÇ те TCÎÇ в' ó/ ¿p\'cíc те /îouXaç т' etcriàv ßov\r)<f>op(itv... | |
 | Commonplace-books - 1907 - 300 pages
...whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rest unburnish'd, not to shine in use, As tho' to breathe...sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. Old age hath yet his honor and his toil; Death closes all: but something ere the end, Some work of... | |
 | Commonplace-books - 1907 - 296 pages
...whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rest unburnish'd, not to shine in use, As tho' to breathe...sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. Old age hath yet his honor and his toil ; Death closes all : but something ere the end, Some work of... | |
 | English poetry - 1907 - 252 pages
...move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use ! As though to breathe were life. Life piled on life Were all...human thought. This is my son, mine own Telemachus, 1 o whom I leave the sceptre and the isle — Well-loved of me, discerning to fulfil This labor, by... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English poetry - 1907 - 654 pages
...where-thro' Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades ao Forever and forever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish'd,...some three suns to store and hoard myself, And this grey spirit yearning in desire 30 To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound... | |
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