 Death closes all: but something ere the end, Some work of noble note may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods. The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks: The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices.  The Divine Comedy - Page 309by Dante Alighieri - 1871Full view - About this book
 | John Watts De Peyster - 1882 - 76 pages
...bound of human thought. ******* There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with, me— That ever with...sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads— . . . Death closes all; but something ere the end, Some woek of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1882 - 432 pages
...There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toiled, and wrought, and thought with I That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and...opposed • Free hearts, free foreheads — you and I are old; Old age hath yet his honor and his toil ; Death closes sill : but something ere the end,... | |
 | Thomas Brassey (1st earl.) - 1883 - 650 pages
...has risen to the occasion, and has done best when his skill or endurance was most severely tried — My mariners, Souls that have toiled and wrought and...frolic welcome took The thunder and the sunshine. It is always in stormy weather that the good qualities of the British seaman are displayed to the greatest... | |
 | 1883 - 778 pages
...battled to fulfil his engagements and to save his family from ruin. He stood high amongst those — " Who ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the...sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads," 8 among tno.se who have been able to display — " One equal temper of heroic hearts Made weak by time... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1883 - 740 pages
...gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, [and thought with me — Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed [are old ; Free hearts, free foreheads — you and I vOld age hath yet his honor and his toil ; Death... | |
 | R. P. Hewett - 1985 - 322 pages
...gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, 45 Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with meThat ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the...and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads — you and I are old; Old age hath yet his honour and his toil; 50 Death closes all: but something ere the end,... | |
 | Patricia Ann Carlson - 1986 - 312 pages
...make an end, To rust unburnished. not to shine in use! There lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail; There gloom the dark. broad seas. My mariners. Souls...and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads — you and I are old: Old age hath yet his honor and his toil. Death closes all; but something ere the end. Some... | |
 | Giovanni Pascoli - 1989 - 120 pages
...nach Neuem bleibt ungebrochen : There lies thè port: thè vessel puff s her sail: There gloom thè dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toiled,...That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and thè sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads - you and I are old; Old age hath yet his honour... | |
 | Charles Mills Gayley - 1995 - 682 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...and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads — you and I are old ; Old age has yet his honor and his toil ; Death closes all : but something ere the end,... | |
 | Robert Paul Metzger - 1993 - 116 pages
...household gods, When I am gone. He works his work, I mine. There lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail; There gloom the dark, broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toiled, and wrought, and thought with meThat ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free... | |
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