Enough, if something from our hands have power To live, and act, and serve the future hour; And if, as toward the silent tomb we go, Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower, We feel that we are greater than we know. Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc - Page 206edited by - 1820Full view - About this book
| Great Britain - 1820 - 866 pages
...the wise, We Men, who in our mom of youth defied The element*, must vanish :— be it so ! Enough, if something from our hands have power To live, and act,...silent tomb we go, Thro' love, thro' hope, and faith's transccndant dower, We feel that we are greater than we know. To this poem of strung Sonnet?, is appended... | |
| 1820 - 490 pages
...wise, We Men, who in our morn of youth defied The elements, must vanish : — be it so ! Enough, if something from our hands have power To live, and act,...future hour ; And if, as tow'rd the silent tomb we go, Thro1 love, thro* hope, and faith's tramcendant power, We feel that we are greater than we know. To... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1827 - 418 pages
...wise, We Men, who in our mom of youth defied The elements, must vanish ; — be it so ! Enough, if something from our hands have power To live, and act,...future hour ; And if, as tow'rd the silent tomb we go, Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendant dower. We feel that we are greater than we know.... | |
| William Wordsworth - Sonnets, English - 1899 - 308 pages
...wise, We Men, who in our morn of youth defied The elements, must vanish ; — be it so ! Enough, if something from our hands have power To live, and act, and serve the future hour ; And if, as toward the silent tomb we go, Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower, We feel that... | |
| British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...it so! Enough, if. something from our hands hire power To live, and act, and serve the future hoar; And if, as tow'rd the silent tomb we go. Thro' love, thro' hope, and faith's transccadant dower, We feel that we are greater than we know. MISCELLANEOUS SONNETS. I. Ni'KsfretnotattheirConvcnt's... | |
| William Wordsworth - Fore-edge painting - 1828 - 372 pages
...wise, We Hen, who in our morn of youth defied TLr rlements, must vanish ; — be it so ! Uoagh, if something from our hands have power | to live, and act, and serve the future hour; I lad if, as tow'rd the silent tomb we go, Through love, through hope, and faith's traoscendant dower,... | |
| John Phillips - Geology - 1829 - 614 pages
...progress of knowledge would be fatally retarded. The noble aspiration of Wordsworth — Enough, if something from our hands have power To live, and act, and serve the future hour, — is peculiarly applicable to the labours of men of science ; and it is with a full sense of the... | |
| Cynosure - 1837 - 272 pages
...mighty, and the wise, We men, who in our morn of youth defied The elements, must vanish ;—be it so! To live, and act, and serve the future hour; And if, as tow'rd the silent tomb we go, Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendant dower, We feel that we are greater than we know.... | |
| Robert Isaac Wilberforce - History, Ancient - 1845 - 272 pages
...the wise, We men, who in our morn of youth defied The elements, must vanish ; be it so, — Enough if something from our hands have power To live, and act, and serve the future hour ; And if, as toward the silent tomb we go, Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower, We feel that... | |
| William Wordsworth - Authors' presentation copies - 1845 - 688 pages
...woe, We Men, who in our morn of youth defcd Tlte element», mutt vanish ; — be it to I Enough, if something from our hands have power To live, and act, and serve the future hour; And if, a» toward the silent tomb we go, Tlirough love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower, We feel... | |
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