 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
 | 1861 - 858 pages
...warnings and summons to nobler exertion, if they choose to heed them. " The lights begin to twinkle on the rocks, The long day wanes, the slow moon climbs, the deep Moans round with many voices." But they only talk about embarking, and do not embark. Odysseus, or Columbus, or De Oama wooes their... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1862 - 698 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...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... | |
 | George William Lyttelton Baron Lyttelton, William Ewart Gladstone - English poetry - 1863 - 224 pages
...free 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...Not unbecoming men that strove with gods. The lights began to twinkle from the rocks : The long day wanes : the slow moon climbs : the deep Moans round... | |
 | 1863 - 224 pages
...free 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...Not unbecoming men that strove with gods. The lights began to twinkle from the rocks : The long day wanes : the slow moon climbs : the deep Moans round... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - Judaism - 1863 - 590 pages
...The feeling so beautifully described by the modern poet is there first shadowed forth in action : " Something ere the end, Some work of noble note may yet be done . . . 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world .... Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 692 pages
...free 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;... | |
 | D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson - Classical education - 1864 - 372 pages
...oreivei' yai ry /iev T' 'i2KfaTOS /ieyas lTrAeTO, TJ/ 8e re ao"TrfTos' ''/S i*p' virepOev li ULYSSES. 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. Push off, and, sitting well in order, smite The sounding furrows... | |
 | 1864 - 370 pages
...ray of sunshine, and prepare Your votes and speeches ; you and I are old, And so is Parliament ; but ere the end Some work of noble note may yet be done 'Not unbecoming men that would be LAUDS. Election Lights are twinkling o'er the land. The session wanes : " dissolve " is heard... | |
 | Whitnash rectory - 1866 - 478 pages
...free 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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1866 - 398 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...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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