 IT little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole* Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me...  Poems - Page 87by Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1843 - 231 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edward Archibald Allen - 1900 - 184 pages
...speak For the fallen and the weak ; They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three. 35. It little profits that, an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and feed, and... | |
 | Ida Catherine Bender, Harry Pratt Judson - 1901 - 268 pages
...TENNYSON It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto...race That hoard and sleep and feed and know not me. 5 I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the lees : all times I have enjoyed Greatly, have... | |
 | 1901 - 812 pages
...showered amidst the golden softness of deep, warm, amber — coloured moss. Ulysses (by Alfred Tennyson). It little profits that an idle king, By this still...these barren crags. Match'd with an aged wife, I mete arid dole Une.qual laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. I cannot... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1901 - 1080 pages
...story told, How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old. THOMAS BAIHNUTOS MACACI.AY. ath was not upon the sea, In ripple or in shade. It raised my hair, it Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole ; Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and. sleep,... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - 1901 - 356 pages
...prophecy! O Wind, If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? Ode to the West Wind. — SHELLEY. 13. It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match 'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard and sleep and... | |
 | Harry Pratt Judson, Ida C. Bender - 1901 - 266 pages
...the century the great city had been captured by a British force. 212 Ulysses BY ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race That hoard and sleep and... | |
 | Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff - 1902 - 598 pages
...refresh'd. Then when the first low matin-chirp hath grown Full quire, and morning driv'n her plough of pearl Far furrowing into light the mounded rack,...king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep,... | |
 | Thomas Marc Parrott, Augustus White Long - 1902 - 432 pages
...the hull 270 Look'd one black dot against the verge of dawn, And on the mere the wailing died away. ULYSSES IT little profits that, an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard and sleep and... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1902 - 296 pages
...the ideas and conceptions of all former ages. From "History of America," by W. ROBERTSON, 0.D. 55. ULYSSES. It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1903 - 644 pages
...not, but I know That, wheresoe'er I am by night and day, All earth and air seem only burning fire.' ULYSSES IT little profits that an idle king, By this...That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. 5 I cannot rest from travel : I will drink Life to the lees : all times I have enjoy'd Greatly, have... | |
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