 He is gone who seem'd so great. Gone; but nothing can bereave him Of the force he made his own Being here, and we believe him Something far advanced in State, And that he wears a truer crown Than any wreath that man can weave him.  Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington - Page 16by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1852 - 16 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1883 - 500 pages
...noble things of this world are but shadows and types of the things of the Spirit, may we not believe " that he wears a truer crown Than any wreath that man can weave him," and may we not hear in the cry of a grateful country, "Eternal honour to his name," a faint echo of... | |
 | 1852 - 978 pages
...cAoose the letter of any which b«set him."— Duke of Wei"The man is gone, who seemed so jrreat,— Gone, but nothing can bereave him Of the force he made his own Heing here, and we believe here Something far advanced hi state. And lhat he wears a truer crown Than... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1855 - 176 pages
...sobs and tears : The black earth yawns : the mortal disappears ; Ashes to ashes, dust to dust ; He is gone who seem'd so great. — Gone ; but nothing...Something far advanced in State, And that he wears x truer crown Than any wreath that man can weave him. But speak no more of his renown, Lay your earthly... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1856 - 596 pages
...entire. I can only give the end of the ode : " Ashes to ashes, dust to dust ; He ¡9 pone who seemed so great — Gone ; but nothing can bereave him Of the force he made his own Being liere, mid we believe him Something far advanced in state, And that he wears a truer crown Thau any... | |
 | Thomas N. Brown - 1858 - 340 pages
...common loss the land mourned ; and, amidst a nation's lamentation, was he borne to his long rest. " He is gone who seem'd so great — Gone ! but nothing...Being here ; and we believe him Something far advanced iu state, And that he wears a truer crown Than any wreath that man can weave him. But speak no more... | |
 | 1858 - 866 pages
...dust to dust; По is gone who seemed so great — Gone ; but nothing can bereave him Of the force ho made his own Being here, and we believe him Something far advanced in state, And that ho wears a truer crown Than any wreath that man can weave him. But speak no moro of his renown, Lay... | |
 | 1859 - 334 pages
...voyage of life was ended. CHAPTER XII. TRIBUTES TO HIS MEMORY, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE. He is gone who seemed so great, Gone ; but nothing can bereave him Of the...Something far advanced in state, And that he wears a brighter crown Than any wreath that man can weave him. — TENNYSON. WHEN Mr. Baker's death was made... | |
 | Lucy Elizabeth Bather - 1860 - 170 pages
...life was work, whose language rife With rugged maxims hewn from life. * » * * He is gone who seemed so great— Gone; but nothing can bereave him Of the...truer Crown Than any wreath that man can weave him." TKNNYSON, Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington. IF you could be taken back suddenly over the... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1860 - 612 pages
...There must be other nobler work to do Than when he fought at Waterloo, And victor he must ever be. Gone, but nothing can bereave him of the force he made his own Being here." But 1 must return to the religion of the Idylls. To me at least the Idylls, as a whole, give a profoundly... | |
 | 1860 - 910 pages
...must be other nobler work to do Than when he fought at Waterloo, And victor he must ever be. Oone, but nothing can bereave him of the force he made his own Being here." But I must return to the religion of the "Idylls." To me, at least, the " Idylls" as a whole, give... | |
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