 Let us alone. Time driveth onward fast, And in a little while our lips are dumb. Let us alone. What is it that will last ? All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful Past.  Poems - Page 146by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1864 - 379 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1895 - 588 pages
...contemplative repose. ' There is no joy but calm ! ' ' Why should we only toil, the roof and crown of things 1 Let us alone. What pleasure can we have To war with...things have rest and ripen toward the grave In silence ; vipen, fall and cease : Give us long rest or death, dark death, or dreamful ease.' Nothing can exceed... | |
 | 1849 - 792 pages
...fast, And in a little while our lips are dumb. Let us alone. What is it that will last ? All things an taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of...In ever climbing up the climbing wave ? All things hare rest, and ripen toward the grave In silence, — ripen, fall, and cease: Give us lone rest or... | |
 | 1847 - 574 pages
...the Ministerial Lotus-Eaters reply, in languid chorus — " LET ra ALONE. What is it that will last? All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful I he issue of five millions of notes restored confidence." And then MR. HORSFALL asked only for an... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 252 pages
...driveth onward fast, And in a little while our lips are dumb. Let us alone. What is it that will last ? All things are taken from us, and become Portions...there any peace In ever climbing up the climbing wave 1 All things have rest, and ripen toward the grave In silence, ripen, fall and cease. Give us long... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1865 - 836 pages
...done for Freedom and Justice, and dreamily mutters: " There ia no joy but calm. Let us alone. Wbat pleasure can we have To war with evil ? Is there any peace In ever climbing up the olimbing wave!" The war well over, the great mass of the people begin to turn a deaf ear to political... | |
 | 1865 - 836 pages
...that enough has been done for Freedom and Justice, and dreamily mutters : " There is no joy but calm. Let us alone. What pleasure can we have To war with evil 1 Is there any peace In ever climbing up the climbing wave !" The war well over, the great mass of... | |
 | 1849 - 608 pages
...driveth onward fast, And in a little while our lips are dumb. Let us alone. What is it that will last ? All things are taken from us, and become Portions...and parcels of the dreadful past. Let us alone. What pleasures can we have To war with evil ? Is there any peace In ever climbing up the climbing wave ?... | |
 | 1864 - 822 pages
...driveth onward fast, And in a little time our lips are dumb. Let us alone. What is it that will last ? All things are taken from us, and become Portions...dreadful past. Let us alone. What pleasure can we hare To war with evil ? Is there any peace In ever climbing up the climbing wave P All things have... | |
 | 1845 - 678 pages
...floating about me of Mammon and bankruptcy. " Is there any peace In ever climbing up the climbing ware ? All things have rest, and ripen toward the grave In silence, ripen, fall, and cease. Oive us long rest or death, dark death, or dreamful ease How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream.... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1849 - 608 pages
...driveth onward fast, And in a little while our lips are dumb. Let us alone. What is it that will last ? All things are taken from us, and become Portions...and parcels of the dreadful past. Let us alone. What pleasures can we have To war with evil ? Is there any peace In ever climbing up the climbing wave ?... | |
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