 Death closes all: but something ere the end, Some work of noble note may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods. The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks: The long day wanes : the slow moon climbs : the deep Moans round with many voices.  The National Review - Page 396edited by - 1855Full view - About this book
 | 1873 - 184 pages
...Alban hesitated no longer,, and taking the first turn, made straight for the riverside. CHAPTER XIII. " Death closes all. But something ere the end, Some work of noble note may yet be done." TENNYSON. was a strange scene which men witnessed that night in Muncaster, a scene that was to be remembered... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1874 - 600 pages
...the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toiled, and wrought, and thought with me, — That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the...and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads, — you and 1 are old ; Old age hath yet his honor and his toil; Death closes all: but something ere the end, Some... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1875 - 494 pages
...the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me — That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the...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 yetbe... | |
 | English poetry - 1876 - 564 pages
...gone. He works his work, I mine. Souls that have toiled, and wrought, and thought with me — That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the...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 yet... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1875 - 584 pages
...mariners, Souls that have toiled, and wrought, and thought with me, — That ever with a frolic weleome took The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed 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 yet... | |
 | Homer - 1875 - 156 pages
...gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toiled, and wrought, and thought with me, That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed. * The metaphor is Homer's, Odysg. xi. 124. Free hearts, free forelieads — you and I are old : Old... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1879 - 314 pages
...mariners, Souls that have toiled, and wrought, and thought with me — That ever with a frolic weleome took The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed 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 yet... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1877 - 512 pages
...abased, and how to abound. It is the boast of Ulysses and his comrades in toil and travel, that they ever with a frolic welcome took the thunder and the...sunshine, and opposed free hearts, free foreheads. So with Jean Pau1's Quintus Fixlein, who, "when Fortune made a wry face at him, was wont, like children... | |
 | Marvin R. Vincent - Bible - 1878 - 340 pages
...that remains, throw off the burden of the past on Me and press forward." " Old age hath yet his honor and his toil ; Death closes all : but something ere...the end, Some work of noble note may yet be done. The wise woman of Tekoah gave David good advice when she bade him cease mourning for the slain Amnon,... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton - Scott, Walter - 1878 - 202 pages
...battled to fulfil his engagements and to save his family from ruin. He stood high amongst those — " Who ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the...sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads," among those who have been able to display — " One eqnal temper of heroic hearts Made weak by time... | |
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