 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
 | Sir William Robertson Nicoll - Age - 1910 - 358 pages
...Emerson was sixty-three years old when he read to his son the poem he called " Terminus," beginning : " It is time to be old, To take in sail. The God of...Came to me in his fatal rounds And said, ' No more ! ' " Dr. Chalmers was sixty-three in the year of the Disruption. In February, 1868, Disraeli succeeded... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - American poetry - 1912 - 696 pages
...to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, 15 The youth replies. / can. TERMINUS It is time to be old, To take in sail: The...sets to seas a shore, Came to me in his fatal rounds 5 And said: "No more! No farther spread Thy broad ambitious branches and thy root. Fancy departs: no... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - American literature - 1915 - 680 pages
...; 60 Woe and want thou canst outsleep ; Want and woe, which torture us, Thy sleep makes ridiculous. Terminus It is time to be old, To take in sail : —...sets to seas a shore, Came to me in his fatal rounds, 6 And said : ' No more I No farther shoot Thy broad ambitious branches, and thy root. Fancy departs... | |
 | 1885 - 720 pages
...guidance. He retired from active practice several years ago, when he had come to feel, with Emerson, "It is time to be old, To take in sail; The god of...Came to me in his fatal rounds, And said, 'No more!" " • * 1 «• 576 REVIEWS AND BOOK NOTICES. Mendota, 11l., and graduated in medinine at Rush Medical... | |
 | Percy Holmes Boynton - American poetry - 1918 - 746 pages
...last He will spell in the sculpture, "Stay." 1846. Atlantic Monthly, Dec., 1866. creep, TERMINUS 1 It is time to be old, To take in sail : — The god...departs : no more invent ; Contract thy firmament I0 To compass of a tent. There's not enough for this and that, Make thy option which of two; Economize... | |
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