 Before them of the ten years' war in Troy, And our great deeds, as half-forgotten things. Is there confusion in the little isle? Let what is broken so remain. The Gods are hard to reconcile: 'Tis hard to settle order once again. There is confusion worse...  Poems - Page 182by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 231 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1875 - 336 pages
...minstrel sings Before them of the ten years' war in Troy, And our great deeds, as half-forgotten things. Is there confusion in the little isle ? Let what is...labour unto aged breath, Sore task to hearts worn out by many wars VII. But, propt on beds of amaranth and moly, How sweet (while warm airs lull us, blowing... | |
 | John Brougham, John Elderkin - American literature - 1875 - 498 pages
...confusion in the little isle? Let what is broken so remain. The Gods are hard to reconcile : 'T is hard to settle order once again. There is confusion...death, • Trouble on trouble, pain on pain, Long labor unto aged breath, Sore task to hearts worn out by many wars And eyes grown dim with gazing on... | |
 | William Fearing Gill - American literature - 1875 - 472 pages
...minstrel sings Before them of the ten years' war in Troy, And our great deeds, as half-forgotten things. Is there confusion in the little isle ? Let what is broken so remain. The Gods are hard to reconcile : 'T is hard to settle order once again. There is confusion worse than death, Trouble on trouble, pain... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1875 - 494 pages
...minstrel sings Before them of the ten years' war in Troy, And our great deeds, as half-forgotten things. Is there confusion in the little isle ? Let what is broken so remain. The Gods are hard to reconcile : 'T is hard to settle order once again. There is confusion worse than death, Trouble on trouble, pain... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1875 - 242 pages
...minstrel sings Before them of the ten years' war in Troy, And our great deeds, as half-forgotten things. Is there confusion in the little isle? Let what is broken so remain. The gods are hard to reconcile : T is hard to settle order once again. There is confusion worse than death, Trouble on trouble, pain... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - Literature - 1875 - 240 pages
...deeds, as half-forgotten things. Let what is broken so remain. The gods are hard to reconcile : 'T is hard to settle order once again. There is confusion...than death, Trouble on trouble, pain on pain, Long labor unto aged breath, Sore task to hearts worn out with many wars, And eyes grown dim with gazing... | |
 | mrs. Francis G Faithfull - 1875 - 378 pages
...did not appear ; and after all, as she told herself, she had not really expected him. CHAPTER III. ' There is confusion worse than death, Trouble on trouble — pain on pain, Long labour unto aged breath.' HERE are some on whom Dame Fortune showers her good and evil gifts with an impartial hand, and who... | |
 | English poetry - 1876 - 508 pages
...minstrel sings Before .them of the ten years' war in Troy, And our great deeds as half-forgotten things. Is there confusion in the little isle ? Let what is...than death, Trouble on trouble, pain on pain, Long labor unto aged breath, Sore task to hearts worn out with many wars, And eyes grown dim with gazing... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1876 - 452 pages
...(sings Before them of the then years' war in Troy, And onr great deeds, as half- forgotten (things, Is there confusion in the little isle ? Let what is...worse than death, Trouble on trouble, pain on pain, Lung labour unto aged breath, Sore task lo hearts worn out with many (wars And eyes grown dim with... | |
 | Law - 1876 - 860 pages
...man's shoulders by laying it on the shoulders of some other man ; but what good is there in that ? "Let what is broken so remain ; The Gods are hard to reconcile." Though Savigny expresses himself with the hopefulness of "The Study of Sociology, Ch. I. an advocate,... | |
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