 The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks: The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.  Poems: In Two Volumes - Page 32by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1863Full view - About this book
 | 1902 - 642 pages
...Ulysses ' was designed as a sort of rallying-cry to his own life, defeated and stupefied by the shock. 1 The long day wanes; the slow moon climbs; the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, "Tis not too late to seek a newer world.' He exhorted himself when, as a dramatic precursor of Columbus,... | |
 | England - 1849 - 792 pages
...you and I are old ; Old age hath yet his honour and his toil ; Death closes all : but something civ the end, , Some work of noble note, may yet be done,...deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and, sitting well in order, smite The sounding furrows;... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 252 pages
...foreheads — you and I are old ; Old age hath yet his honour and his toil ; Death closes all : but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may...deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and, sitting well in order, smite The sounding furrows... | |
 | England - 1842 - 536 pages
...disappointment. Yet we cannot help giving another extract from the piece : — " Death closes all : but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may...unbecoming men that strove with Gods. The lights begin to tumble from the rocks : The long day wanes : the slow moon climbs : the deep Moans round with many... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1843 - 256 pages
...foreheads — you and I are old ; Old age hath yet his honour and his toil ; Death closes all : but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may...deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows... | |
 | 1844 - 716 pages
...foreheads — you and I are old ; Old age hath yet his honour and his toil ; Death closes all : but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may...deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows... | |
 | American literature - 1849 - 608 pages
...foreheads — you and I are old : Old age hath yet his honor and his toil ; Death closes all : but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may...The long day wanes : the slow moon climbs : the deep Hoans round with many voices. Come, my friends, Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
...foreheads — you and I are old ; Old age hath yet his honour and his toil ; Death closes all: but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may...deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows... | |
 | Periodicals - 1845 - 730 pages
...free foreheads — you and I are old; Old age hath yet his honor and his toil ; Death closes all: but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may...deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and, sitting well in order, smite The sounding furrows;... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1846 - 252 pages
...foreheads — you and I are old : Old age hath yet his honour and his toil ; Death closes all : but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may...deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and, sitting well in order, smite The sounding furrows... | |
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