 We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven ; that which we are, we are ; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.  The Vista of English Verse - Page 3971911 - 654 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 252 pages
...fades For ever and for ever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use ! As tho' to breathe were life....of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. LOCKSLEY HALL. COMRADES, leave me here... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 250 pages
...with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads—you and I are old ; Old age hath yet his honour and his...of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. LOCKSLEY HALL. COMRADES, leave me here... | |
 | England - 1842 - 538 pages
...of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods. The lights begin to tumble from the rocks : The long day wanes : the slow moon...Moved earth and heaven ; that which we are, we are ; Our equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1843 - 256 pages
...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...of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. LOCKSLEY HALL. COMRADES, leave me here... | |
 | 1844 - 714 pages
...: the vessel puffs her sail ; There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toi1'd, and wrought, and thought with me — That ever with...To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." The mild dignity and placid resolve, — the kingly resignation, — the unaffected and unostentatious... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
...gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought withme — That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and...of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. LOCKSLEY HALL. « COMRADES, leave me... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1846 - 254 pages
...fades For ever and for ever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use ! As tho' to breathe were life....of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. LOCKSLEY HALL. COMRADES, leave me here... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - Literary Collections - 1848 - 372 pages
...Gods. The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks : The long day wanes : the slow moon climbs : ihe deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends,...To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." The poetry of BRYAN WALLER PROCTOR, (Barry Cornwall,) has splendid traits of genius. Passages might be... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - American literature - 1851 - 434 pages
...Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Though much is taken, much abides ; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved...To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." The poetry of BRYAN WALLER PROCTOR (Barry Cornwall) has splendid traits of genius. Passages might be clipped... | |
 | M. Edgeworth Lazurus - Hygiene - 1852 - 458 pages
...Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Though much is taken, much abides ; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved...To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. The indigenous races, who are still really at Home, in a sense no civilizee can be, possess some characters... | |
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