 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
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - Citizenship - 1897 - 268 pages
...great charm (Cabot, 570), his smile was a sunbeam in his face (Cooke, 193), and his whole manner was TERMINUS.* IT is time to be old, To take in sail :...departs : no more invent ; Contract thy firmament 10 To compass of a tent. There 's not enough for this and that, Make thy option which of two ; Economize... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - American literature - 1897 - 554 pages
...the limit of his working life. He gave pathetic expression to his experience in the poem entitled " Terminus : " — " It is time to be old, To take in...Came to me in his fatal rounds, And said ' No more.' " way. At last, April 27, 1882, surrounded by those he loved, he was beckoned " to his vaster home."... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - Citizenship - 1897 - 264 pages
...great charm (Cabot, 570), his smile was a sunbeam in his face (Cooke, 193), and his whole manner was TERMINUS.* IT is time to be old, To take in sail :...sets to seas a shore, Came to me in his fatal rounds, 5 And said : " No more ! No farther shoot Thy broad ambitious branches, and thy root. Fancy departs... | |
 | New Brunswick Theological Seminary. Alumni Association - Theological seminaries - 1898 - 84 pages
...When Ralph Waldo Emerson was sixty-three. years old he wrote his poem called Terminus, beginning: " It is time to be old, To take in sail :— The God...Came to me in his fatal rounds, And said : No more I " But with such sentiments expressed at such an age we can have but little sympathy. Far more to... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - American poetry - 1900 - 966 pages
...I heard no church-bell chime ; The sea-beat scorns the minster clock And breaks the glass of Time. R V | 6 7 / Fancy departs: no more invent; Contract thy tirinament To compass of a tent. There 's not enough for... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - American poetry - 1900 - 954 pages
...church-bell chime ; The sea-beat scorns the minster clock And breaks the glass of Time. TERMINUS IT a time to be old, To take in sail: The god of bounds,...fatal rounds, And said: " No more ! No farther shoot ТЬт broad ambitious branches, and thy Finer departs: no more invent; Contract thy firmament To compass... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - American poetry - 1900 - 968 pages
....sea-beat .scorns the minster clock And breaks the glass of Time. TERMINUS IT la time to be old, To tako in sail: The god of bounds, Who sets to seas a shore,...Came to me in his fatal rounds, And said: " No more t No farther shoot Tliy broad ambitious branches, and thy root. Fancy departs: no more invent; Contract... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - Literary Criticism - 1901 - 964 pages
...rock, I heard no church-bell chime; The sea-beat scorns the minster clock And breaks the glass of Time. it is closed, — 't is a far cry to Heaven, my soul, — Oh, a far cry to Heaven ! Fancy departs: no more invent; Contract thy firmament To compass of a tent. There 's not enough for... | |
 | Laurie Magnus, Cecil Headlam - Religious poetry - 1903 - 390 pages
...and the patriot bard In bright succession raise, her ornament and guard ! ROBERT BURNS. DECEMBER 1. TERMINUS. IT is time to be old, To take in sail :...his fatal rounds, And said : " No more ! No farther spread Thy broad, ambitious branches, and thy root. Fancy departs : no more invent, Contract thy firmament... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 348 pages
...thrift, the sleep of cares ; For a proud idleness like this Crowns all thy mean affairs. TEEMINUS. IT is time to be old, To take in sail : — The god...his fatal rounds, And said : "No more ! No farther spread Thy broad ambitious branches, and thy root, Fancy departs : no more invent, Contract thy firmament... | |
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