We only toil, who are the first of things, And make perpetual moan, Still from one sorrow to another thrown : Nor ever fold our wings, And cease from wanderings, Nor steep our brows in slumber's holy balm ; Nor harken what the inner spirit sings, "There... The Williams Quarterly - Page 2401857Full view - About this book
| 1849 - 792 pages
...consumed with sharp distress, While all things else have rest from weariness? All things have rest : why should we toil alone? We only toil, who are the first of things, And make perpetual moan, Still from one sorrow to another thrown : Nor ever fold our wings, And cease from wanderings, Nor steep... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1843 - 260 pages
...consumed with sharp distress, While all things else have rest from weariness ? All things have rest : why should we toil alone, We only toil, who are the first of things, And make perpetual moan, Still from one sorrow to another thrown : Nor ever fold our wings, And cease from wanderings Nor steep... | |
| 1849 - 608 pages
...consumed with sharp distress, While all things else have rest from weariness ? All things have rest: why should we toil alone ? We only toil, who are the first of things, And make perpetual moan, Still from one sorrow to another thrown : Nor ever fold our wings, And cease from wanderings, Nor steep... | |
| 1845 - 608 pages
...consumed with »harp distress, While all things else have rest from weariness? All things have rest, why should we toil alone.' We only toil who are the first of things, And make perpetual moan, Still from one sorrow to another thrown : Nor ever fold our wings, And cease from wanderings; Nor steep... | |
| Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
...consumed with sharp distress, While all things else have rest from weariness? All things have rest : why should we toil alone, We only toil, who are the first of things, And make perpetual moan, Still from one sorrow to another thrown : Nor ever fold our wings, And cease from wanderings Nor steep... | |
| 1849 - 864 pages
...consumed with sharp distress, While all things else have rest from weariness? All things have rest : why should we toil alone? We only toil, who are the first of things, And make perpetual moan, Still from one sorrow to another thrown : Nor ever fold our wings, And cease from wanderings, Nor steep... | |
| Thomas Powell - 1849 - 326 pages
...consumed with sharp distress, While all things else have rest from weariness ? All things have rest : why should we toil alone ? We only toil, who are the first of things, And make perpetual moan, Still from one sorrow to another thrown : Nor ever fold our wings, And cease from wanderings, Nor steep... | |
| Charles Kingsley - 1850 - 398 pages
...consumed with sharp distress, While all things else have rest from weariness ? All things have rest: why should we toil alone? We only toil who are the first of things, And make perpetual moan, Still from one sorrow to another thrown: Nor ever fold our wings, Nor steep our brows in slumber's... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 276 pages
...consumed with sharp distress, While all things else have rest from weariness ? All things have rest: why should we toil alone, We only toil, who are the first of things, And make perpetual moan, Still from one sorrow to another thrown: Nor ever fold our wings, And cease from wanderings, Nor steep... | |
| Thomas Powell - 1851 - 216 pages
...While all things else haverest from weariness :' All things have rest : why should we toil alone 1 We only toil, who are the first of things, And make perpetual moan, Still from one sorrow to another thrown ; Nor ever fold our wings, And cease from wanderings, Nor steep... | |
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