 | Shrewsbury (England). Royal School - 1801 - 368 pages
...TÓ^oктiv, rj 8" oч ¿ crтpovвóч, TOV âppev ¿pvвpóaтepvov a\пoч eктeiva. The Lotus-eaters. Hateful is the dark-blue sky Vaulted o'er the dark-blue...of life ; ah, why Should life all labour be ? Let us alone. Time driveth onward fast, And in a little while our lips are dumb. Let us alone. 'What is... | |
 | 1849 - 792 pages
...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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 252 pages
...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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1843 - 260 pages
...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...of life ; ah ! why Should life all labour be ? Let us alone. Time driveth onward fast, And in a little while our lips are dumb. Let us alone. What is... | |
 | 1849 - 608 pages
...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... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1845 - 646 pages
...ripens in its place, Ripens, and fades, and falls, and hath no toil, Fast-rooted in the fruitful soil. ' Hateful is the dark-blue sky, Vaulted o'er the dark-blue...of life — ah! why Should life all labour be? Let us alone. Time driveth onward fast, And in a little while our lips are dumb. Let us alone. What is... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | 1864 - 822 pages
...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 labour be ! Let us alone ; Time driveth onward fast, And in a little time our lips are dumb. Let us alone. What is... | |
 | 1849 - 864 pages
...sings, — * There is no joy but calm ! " Why should we only toil, the roof and crown of things ? " Hateful is the dark-blue sky, Vaulted o'er the dark-blue...of life : ah ! why Should life all labour be? Let us alone. Time driveth onward fast, And in a little while our lips are dumb. Let us alone. What is... | |
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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... 
