 | 1849 - 792 oldal
...There is no joy but calm ! ' Why should we only toil, the roof and crown of things ? s • • * IV. " Hateful is the dark-blue sky, Vaulted o'er the dark-blue sea. Death is tho end of life : ah ! why Should life all labour be? Let us alone. Time driveth onward fast, And in... | |
 | Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - 1875 - 616 oldal
...see his way to anything, in fact. In short, he agreed with the Laureate's Lotos-Eaters : — " Let ue alone. Time driveth onward fast, And in a little while...are dumb. Let us alone. What is it that will last ?" Why all this bother and fuss about Reporting and Reporters, and so old a Standing Order P The wisdom... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 252 oldal
...allotted length of days, The flower ripens in its place, Ripens and fades, and falls, and hath no toil, 4. Hateful is the dark-blue sky, Vaulted o'er the dark-blue...the end of life ; ah ! why Should life all labour be 1 Let us alone. Time driveth onward fast, And in a little while our lips are dumb. Let us alone. What... | |
 | 1849 - 608 oldal
...There is no joy but calm !' Why should we only toil, the roof and crown of things ? * * * * * IV. " Hateful is the dark-blue sky, Vaulted o'er the dark-blue...Death is the end of life; ah ! why Should life all labor be ? Let us alone. Time driveth onward fast, And in a little while our lips are dumb. Let us... | |
 | 1864 - 822 oldal
...secularism is that of the Lotos-Eaters, so finely expressed by the greatest of our living poets : — " Death is the end of life ; ah ! why Should life all...alone ; Time 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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 oldal
...ripens in its place, Ripens and fades, and falls, and hath no toil, Fast-rooted in the fruitful soil. 4. Hateful is the dark-blue sky, Vaulted o'er the dark-blue...the end of life ; ah ! why Should life all labour be Y Let us alone. Time driveth onward fast, And in a little while our lips are dumb. Let us alone. What... | |
 | 1845 - 608 oldal
...ripens in its place, Ripens, and fades, and falls, and bath no toil, Fast rooted in the fruitful soil. 1 Hateful is the dark-blue sky, Vaulted o'er the dark-blue...Death is the end of life — ah ! why Should life all labor be? Let us alone. Time driveth onward fast, And in a little while our lip« are dumb. Let us... | |
 | Thomas Powell - 1849 - 326 oldal
...sings, — ' There is no joy but calm !' Why should we only toil, the roof and crown of things? IT. Hateful is the dark-blue sky, Vaulted o'er the dark-blue...Death is the end of life ; ah ! why Should life all labor be? Let us alone. Time driveth onward fast, And in a little while our lips are dumb. Let us alone.... | |
 | Thomas Powell - 1849 - 328 oldal
...sings, — ' There is no joy but calm !' Why should we only toil, the roof and crown of things ? IV. Hateful is the dark-blue sky, Vaulted o'er the dark-blue sea. Death is the end of life ; ah ! whyShould life all labor be ? Let us alone. Time driveth onward fast, And in a little while our lips... | |
 | 1850 - 498 oldal
...— -n of diinpT * 148 ALFRED TENNYSON. " Hateful ¡g the dark -bino sky, Vaulted o'er the dark-bine sea. Death is the end of life ; ah ! why Should life all labor Ii" 7 Let us alone. Time drivetb onward fait, And in a little while onr lips are clomb. Let us... | |
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All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful Past. Let us alone. What pleasure can we have To war with evil? Is there any peace In ever climbing up the climbing wave? 
