 | 1881 - 622 pages
...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. Life piled on life Were all...but every hour is saved From that eternal silence.' All these, it is plain, are not individual thoughts and sentiments. They are what, under the required... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1851 - 290 pages
...fades Forever and forever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnished, not to shine in use ! As though to breathe were life....bringer of new things ; and vile it were For some three sums to store and hoard myself, And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge, like a... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 1851 - 300 pages
...fades Forever and forever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnished, not to shine in use ! As though to breathe were life....bringer of new things ; and vile it were For some three sums to store and hoard myself, And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge, like a... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1853 - 468 pages
...fades Forever and forever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnished, not to shine in use ! As though to breathe were life....bringer of new things ; and vile it were For some three sums to store and hoard myself, And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge, like a... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1858 - 402 pages
...move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, j To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use ! As tho' to breathe were life. Life piled on life . Were all...saved ' From that eternal silence, something more, A briuger of new things ; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself, And this gray... | |
 | William Allingham - English poetry - 1860 - 316 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 though to breathe were life....some three suns to store and hoard myself, And this grey spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge, like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1862 - 698 pages
...fade^ Forever and forever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnished, not to shine in use ! As though to breathe were life....hoard myself, And this gray spirit yearning in desire rTo follow knowledge, like a sinking starf* ^ Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. This is my... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1863 - 468 pages
...Forever and forever when I move. •'""How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnished, not to shine in use ! As though to breathe were life....Were all too little, and of one to me Little remains . T>ut every hour is saved From that eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new things ; and... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 692 pages
...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. Life piled on life were all...one to me little remains: but every hour is saved 526 Passages for Translation from that eternal silence, something more, a bringer of new things ; and... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1866 - 400 pages
...fade Forever and forever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnished, not to shine in use ! As though to breathe were life. Life piled on life Were afl too little, and of one to me Little remains : but every hour is saved From that eternal silence,... | |
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As tho' to breathe were life. Life piled on life Were all too little, and of one to me Little remains: but every hour is saved From that eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new things; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard... 
