The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks : The long day wanes : the slow moon climbs : the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows ;... The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate - Page 210by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1891Full view - About this book
| William Chambers - Biography - 1859 - 600 pages
...thought.' Therefore will he quit again his patrimonial dominions, and say to his brave comrades — ' My purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until 1 die.' So likewise our hardy De Foe, after reposing for a while in ' easy circumstances' at Newington,... | |
| 1859 - 522 pages
...naval service of Great Britain. like the Ulysses of Dante and of Tennyson, they were bound — " To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars" — until they died. Tt is all the more our duty to acknowledge that they did the work they were sont to do.... | |
| John Brown - Arctic regions - 1860 - 88 pages
...first discoverer of a North- West Passage, . . . the one thing left undone." * They were bound " To sail beyond the sunset and the baths Of all the western stars," until they died, and " it is all the more our duty to acknowledge that they did the work they were sent to... | |
| 1861 - 858 pages
...nobler exertion, if they choose to heed them. " The lights begin to twinkle on the rocks, The long day wanes, the slow moon climbs, the deep Moans round with many voices." But they only talk about embarking, and do not embark. Odysseus, or Columbus, or De Oama wooes their... | |
| 1863 - 224 pages
...Not unbecoming men that strove with gods. The lights began to twinkle from the rocks : The long day wanes : the slow moon climbs : the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, 'Tis not too lale to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows ; for my... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1863 - 468 pages
...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. Come, my friends. 'T is not too late to seek a newer world. Push ofF, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows... | |
| William Rounseville Alger - Future life - 1864 - 934 pages
...order, ¿mite The sounding furrows ; for my purpoee holda To sail beyoud the eunset, and the bathe Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash ua down: It may be we shall touch the Happy leles, And »ее the great Achillee, whom we knew." Decius... | |
| D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson - Classical education - 1864 - 364 pages
...friend?. Tis n:4 too late to seek m newer world. I x i<h off. and. sitting well in order, smite T -e sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths < )f all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down : It may... | |
| William Rounseville Alger - Future life - 1864 - 936 pages
...curiosity, well might the old, wearied Ulysses say, — "Come, my friends, Tie not too late to eoek a newer world. Push off, and, sitting well in order, smite The sounding furrown ; for my purpoee holde To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stare, until... | |
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