| Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1894 - 862 pages
...prudence to make mild A rugged people, and thro' soft degrees Subdue them to the useful and the good. Most blameless is he, centred in the sphere Of common...household gods, When I am gone. He works his work, I mine. There iies the port ; the vessel puffs her sail : There gloom the dark bread seas. My mariners, Souls... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1894 - 860 pages
...prudence to make mild A rugged people, and thro' soft degrees Subdue them to the useful and the good. Most blameless is he, centred in the sphere Of common...household gods, When I am gone. He works his work, I mine. There lies the port ; the vessel puffs her sail : There gloom the dark bread seas. My mariners, Souls... | |
| Margaret Sullivan Mooney - English literature - 1895 - 350 pages
...prudence to make mild A rugged people, and thro' soft degrees Subdue them to the useful and the good. Most blameless is he, centred in the sphere Of common...household gods, When I am gone. He works his work, I mine. There lies the port: the vessel puffs her sail: There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls... | |
| Kenyon West - Poets laureate - 1895 - 588 pages
...prudence to make mild A rugged people, and thro' soft degrees Subdue them to the useful and the good. Most blameless is he, centred in the sphere Of common...household gods, When I am gone. He works his work, I mine. There lies the port: the vessel puffs her sail: There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners. Souls... | |
| Edmund Clarence Stedman - English poetry - 1895 - 802 pages
...prudence to make mild A rugged people, and thro' soft degrees Subdue them to the useful and the good. Most blameless is he, centred in the sphere Of common...household gods, When I am gone. He works his work, I mine. There lies the port ; the vessel puffs her sail : There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls... | |
| Kenyon West - Literary Criticism - 1895 - 614 pages
...prudence to make mild A rugged people, and thro' soft degrees Subdue them to the useful and the good. Most blameless is he, centred in the sphere Of common...household gods, When I am gone. He works his work, I mine. There lies the port : the vessel puffs her sail : There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls... | |
| Adena Rosmarin - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 218 pages
...prudence to make mild A rugged people, and through soft degrees Subdue them to the useful and the good. Most blameless is he, centred in the sphere Of common...household gods, When I am gone. He works his work, I mine. (11. 33-43) These passages must trouble attempts to read the poem lyrically. The "aged wife" is Penelope,... | |
| R. P. Hewett - English Poetry - 1985 - 322 pages
...prudence to make mild A rugged people, and thro' soft degrees Subdue them to the useful and the good. Most blameless is he, centred in the sphere Of common duties, decent not to fail 40 In offices of tenderness, and pay Meet adoration to my household gods, When I am gone. He works... | |
| Charles Mills Gayley - Art - 1995 - 682 pages
...people, and thro' soft degrees Subdue them to the useful and the good. Most blameless is he, centered in the sphere Of common duties, decent not to fail...household gods, When I am gone. He works his work, I mine. There lies the port : the vessel puffs her sail : There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls... | |
| Robert Paul Metzger - Philosophy - 1993 - 116 pages
...people, and through soft degrees Subdue them to the useful and the good. Most blameless is he, centered in the sphere Of common duties, decent not to fail...household gods, When I am gone. He works his work, I mine. There lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail; There gloom the dark, broad seas. My mariners, Souls... | |
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