 TERMINUS. IT is time to be old, To take in sail : — The god of bounds, Who sets to seas a shore, Came to me in his fatal rounds, And said : ' No more ! No farther shoot Thy broad ambitious branches, and thy root.  The Stoddard Library: Eliot-Gladstone - Page 55by John Lawson Stoddard - 1913Full view - About this book
 | Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 580 pages
...called for renovation through ecstasy; in "Terminus" Emerson receives a command from a different god: It is time to be old, To take in sail: The god of...Came to me in his fatal rounds, And said: "No more!" The poet's failing life-force must now be husbanded. Resentfully, the poet first blames his ancestors,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 457 pages
...that one passage from it has been quoted for a particular purpose, but here is the whole poem : — TERMINUS. It is time to be old, To take in sail :...farther shoot Thy broad ambitious branches, and thy rood Fancy departs : no more invent ; Contract thy firmament To compass of a tent. There 's not enough... | |
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