 | Living voices - English poetry - 1873 - 588 pages
...in order smite The sounding furrows ; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that...Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides ; and tho' We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1874 - 600 pages
...in order, smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that...knew. Though much is taken, much abides ; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven ; that which we an-, we are ;... | |
 | Public school series - 1874 - 408 pages
...in order smite The sounding furrows ; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that...Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides ; and tho' We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth... | |
 | English poetry - 1876 - 564 pages
...in order smite The sounding furrows ; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that...knew. Though much is taken, much abides ; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven ; that which we are, we are ;... | |
 | Homer - 1875 - 156 pages
...in order smite The sounding furrows : for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that...Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew." CHAPTER XI. CONCLUDING EEMARKS. THE resemblance which these Homeric poems bear, in many remarkable... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1875 - 584 pages
...in order, smite The sounding farrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that...touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, wbem we knew. Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1876 - 452 pages
...my purpose holds We are not now that strength which in old To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that...Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho* (days Moved earth and heaven; that which we are; (we are... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1879 - 314 pages
...in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that...knew. Though much is taken, much abides ; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are ;... | |
 | Science - 1878 - 770 pages
...in order smite The sounding furrows ; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that...see the great Achilles whom we knew. Though much is l.akcn, much abides ; and tho' We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven... | |
 | Henry Morton Stanley - Africa, Central - 1878 - 658 pages
...and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us...whom we knew. Though much is taken, much abides; and tho' We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are... | |
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We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. 
