 There lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail: There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me — That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the sunshine...  Poems - Page 70by Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845Full view - About this book
 | 1876 - 564 pages
...I am gone. He works his work, I mine. Souls that have toiled, and wrought, and thought with me — That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and...foreheads — you and I are old. Old age hath yet his honor and his toil ; Death closes all : but something, ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...mariners, Souls that have toiled, and wrought, and thought with me, — That ever with a frolic weleome took The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed Free...foreheads, — you and I are old ; Old age hath yet his honor and his toil; Death closes all : but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet... | |
 | Homer - 1875 - 156 pages
...There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toiled, and wrought, and thought with me, That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed. * The metaphor is Homer's, Odysg. xi. 124. Free hearts, free forelieads — you and I are old : Old... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1877 - 494 pages
...sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads — you and I are old ; Old age hath yet his honor and his toil ; Death closes all : but something ere...strove with Gods. The lights begin to twinkle from therocks: The long day wanes : the slow moon climbs* the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1879 - 314 pages
...mariners, Souls that have toiled, and wrought, and thought with me — That ever with a frolic weleome took The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed Free...foreheads — you and I are old ; Old age hath yet his honor and his toil; Death closes all : but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1877 - 512 pages
...abased, and how to abound. It is the boast of Ulysses and his comrades in toil and travel, that they ever with a frolic welcome took the thunder and the...sunshine, and opposed free hearts, free foreheads. So with Jean Pau1's Quintus Fixlein, who, "when Fortune made a wry face at him, was wont, like children... | |
 | William Young Sellar - 1877 - 450 pages
...the issue of death:' and that there was in the poet too the genuine delight in danger, the spirit ' That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the sunshine,' which has been attributed to the companions of his hero's wanderings. Odysseus, like Aeneas, feels... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1878 - 544 pages
...THE BANKS OP THE META. " My mariners, Souls that hbva toil'd, and wrought, and thought w.tii me— Death closes all : but something ere the end, Some...be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with gods !" TENNYSON'S Ulyiiei. NEABLY three years are past and gone since that little band had knelt at evensong... | |
 | Marvin R. Vincent - 1878 - 340 pages
...that remains, throw off the burden of the past on Me and press forward." " Old age hath yet his honor and his toil ; Death closes all : but something ere...the end, Some work of noble note may yet be done. The wise woman of Tekoah gave David good advice when she bade him cease mourning for the slain Amnon,... | |
 | Henry Morton Stanley - 1878 - 694 pages
...addresses his followers thus : — "My mariners, Souls that have toiled, and wrought, and thought with me, That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and...sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads : come, my friends, Tis not too late to seek a newer world." Push off, and sitting well in order smite... | |
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