So many worlds, so much to do, So little done, such things to be, How know I what had need of thee, For thou wert strong as thou wert true ? The fame is quench'd that I foresaw, The head hath miss'd an earthly wreath: I curse not nature, no, nor death;... Poetical Works - Page 52by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861Full view - About this book
| Manchester district Sunday school assoc - 1855 - 800 pages
...thus early called him ; do you remember those words in the 'In Memoriam.' ' So many worlds, so ranch to do, So little done, such things to be, How know...of Thee, For Thou wert strong as Thou wert true.' And even now I grow gladder, for I seem to feel that he has, as you say, Mary, not ceased labouring,... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 272 pages
...disastrous day ; Touch thy dull goal of joyless gray, And hide thy shame beneath the ground. LXXI. So many worlds, so much to do, So little done, such things...no, nor death, For nothing is that errs from law. I In We pass : the path that each man trod Is dim, or will be dim, with weeds : What fame is left for... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 236 pages
...day ; Touch thy dull goal of joyless gray, And hide thy shame beneath the ground. H 2 LXXI. So many worlds, so much to do, So little done, such things...For thou wert strong as thou wert true ? The fame is quench'd that I foresaw, The head hath miss'd an earthly wreath : I curse not nature ; no, nor death,... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 228 pages
...day ; Touch thy dull goal of joyless gray, And hide thy shame beneath the ground. 99 LXXI. So mafcy worlds, so much to do, So little done, such things...For thou wert strong as thou wert true ? The fame is quench'd that I foresaw, The head hath miss'd an earthly wreath : I curse not nature ; no, nor death,... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 422 pages
...disastrous day ; Touch thy dull goal of joyless gray, And hide thy shame beneath the ground. LXXII. So many worlds, so much to do, So little done, such things...For thou wert strong as thou wert true ? The fame is quench' d that I foresaw, The head hath miss'd an earthly wreath : I curse not nature, no, nor death... | |
| 1851 - 552 pages
...unsweet, Eternal form shall still divide The eternal Soul from all beside;" Again: And again: " So many worlds, so much to do, So little done, such things to be, How knew I what had need of thee, For thou wast strong as thou wert true." " So here shall silence guard... | |
| Sir Rutherford Alcock - 1863 - 458 pages
...Though we may not be over-sanguine if we look at the future by the light of the past — for So many worlds, so much to do, So little done, such things to be, may still describe the feelings with which such far-distant relations are discussed — yet, on Paley's... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1866 - 734 pages
...disastrous day ; Touch thy dull goal of joyless gray, And hide thy shame beneath the ground. LXXII. So many worlds, so much to do, So little done, such things to be, How know 1 what had need of thee, For thou wert strong as thou wert true ? The fame is quench'd that I foresaw,... | |
| Samuel M. Kennedy - 1867 - 530 pages
..."Ah, for a man to arise in me, that the man I am may cease to be I" We can feel with him, " So many worlds ! so much to do, so little done, such things to be," and all our life spent like an " infant crying in the night, an infant crying for the light, and with... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1868 - 520 pages
...disastrous day ; Touch thy dull goal of joyless gray, And hide thy shame beneath the ground. LXXII. So many worlds, so much to do, So little done, such things...For thou wert strong as thou wert true ? The fame is quench'd that I foresaw, The head hath miss'd an earthly wreath : I curse not nature, no, nor death... | |
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