 Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.  Poems - Page 46by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1853Full view - About this book
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
...reaps not harvest of his youthful joys, Tho' the deep heart of existence beat for ever like a boy's ? Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger...And the individual withers, and the world is more an more. Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and he bears a laden breast, Full of sad experience moving... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1846 - 254 pages
...reaps not harvest of his youthful joys, Tho' the deep heart of existence beat for ever like a boy's? Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger...to whom my foolish passion were a target for their Shall it not be scorn to me to harp on such a moulder'd string ? I am shamed thro' all my nature to... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...reaps not harvest of his youthful joys, Though the deep heart of existence beat for ever like a boy's ! Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger...withers, and the world is more and more. Knowledge come?, but wisdom lingers, and he bears a laden breast, Full of sad experience, moving toward the stillness... | |
 | Religion - 1852 - 302 pages
...the deep heart of existence beats for ever like a boy's ? Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and we linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and...world is more and more. Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers,,and he bears a laden breast, Full of sad experience moving t'ward the stillness of his reet!"... | |
 | Caroline Grantoff - 1854 - 342 pages
...MARLBOROUGH STREET. F. Shoberl, Printer to UK II. Prince Albert, Rupert Street. JANET MOWBRAY. CHAPTEK I. Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and he bears...experience moving toward the stillness of his rest. TENNYSON. The rain plashed drearily on the wet pavement — it had been falling all day — while the... | |
 | Married women - 1855 - 342 pages
...that reaps not harvest of his youthful joys, Tho* the deep heart of existence beats for ever like a Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and he bears...experience moving toward the stillness of his rest. TlNNVSON. IT was with a very heavy heart, that Diana saw the time draw on which was to sever her from... | |
 | 1858 - 588 pages
...There is a knowledge of history and a wisdom of history, to which the words of Tennyson aptly apply:— "Knowledge comes, but wisdom' lingers, and he bears a laden breast, Full of sad experience, moving towards the stillness of his rest." It is only by musing and reflecting upon the full record of " sad... | |
 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 pages
...ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widen'd with the process of the suns. Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, but the world is more and more. Ah for some retreat Deep in yonder shining Orient, where my life began... | |
 | Simeon Nash - Ethics - 1859 - 474 pages
...good; and they find the harvest of their hopes but the apples of Sodom, and the clusters of Gomorrah. " Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and he bears...experience, moving toward the stillness of his rest." Out of sucb men is constituted that party organization which seeks personal aims, not national good.... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1861 - 570 pages
...reaps not harvest of his youthful joys, Tho' the deep heart of existence beat for ever like a boys' ? Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger...call me, sounding on the bugle-horn, They to whom my fuolish passion were a target for their scorn ; Shall it not be scorn to me to harp on such a mouldcr'd... | |
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