 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
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - Funeral sermons - 1882 - 442 pages
...the trust which was once committed to him, and which he and his generation have handed down to us. 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,... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - Sermons, English - 1882 - 402 pages
...the trust which was once committed to him, and which he and his generation have handed down to us. 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,... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - American literature - 1883 - 432 pages
...gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toiled, and wrought, and thought with i That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the...Free hearts, free foreheads — you and I are old j Old age hath yet his honor and his toil ; Death closes all : but something ere the end, Some work... | |
 | Biography - 1883 - 778 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," 8 among tno.se who have been able to display — " One equal temper of heroic hearts Made weak by time... | |
 | Augusta Jane Wilson - 1883 - 380 pages
...closing lines of ' Ulysses • nobly refute all the mumbling heresy of the ' Lotos Eaters,'— . . . . ' But something ere the end, Some work of noble note may yet be done. That which we are, we are ; One equal templer of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1883 - 740 pages
...the dark broad seas. My mariners, [and thought with me — Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed [are old ; Free hearts, free foreheads — you and I vOld age hath yet his honor and his toil ; Death... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - Bible - 1883 - 528 pages
...him. 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... | |
 | William Swinton - Readers - 1885 - 620 pages
...There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toiled and wrought and thought with 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... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Cuzco (Peru) - 1885 - 272 pages
...as the poet's hero uses : — " Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me, — That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the...sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads, — . . . Death closes all : but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done."... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1885 - 526 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...sunshine, and opposed / Free hearts, free foreheads -/yon and I are old ; • '« — Old age hath yet his honor and his toil ; Death closes all: but something... | |
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