 | Electronic journals - 1875 - 676 pages
...should be till'd." Milt., Г. L., ii. 846-7. And Tennyson, In Memoriam, can. xxxiv. 4 : — '"Twerebest To drop head foremost in the jaws Of vacant darkness and to cease." WILLIAM PLATT. Conterrative Clnb. William Gifford thus translates the following passage from Juvenal... | |
 | 1850 - 654 pages
...wild poet, when he works Without a conscience or an aim. " What then were God to such as IT 'Twere hardly worth my while to choose Of things all mortal,...foremost in the jaws Of vacant darkness and to cease." Man dies; nor is there hope in dust: Yet if some voice that man could trust Should murmur from the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - Grief - 1850 - 228 pages
...some wild Poet, when he works Without a conscience or an aim. What then were God to such as I ? 'Twere hardly worth my while to choose Of things all mortal,...peace, Like birds the charming serpent draws, To drop head-foremost in the jaws Of vacant darkness and to cease. 5?. XXXV. YET if some voice that man could... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 236 pages
...some wild Poet, when he works Without a conscience or an aim. What then were God to such as I ? 'Twere hardly worth my while to choose Of things all mortal,...peace, Like birds the charming serpent draws, To drop head-foremost in the jaws Of vacant darkness and to cease. 53 YET if some voice that man could trust... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 272 pages
...wild Poet, when he works Without a conscience or an aim. What then were God to such as I ? 'T were hardly worth my while to choose Of things all mortal, or to use A little patience ere I die ; 'T were best at once to sink to peace, Like birds the charming serpent draws, To drop head-foremost... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1851 - 234 pages
...some wild Poet, when he works Without a conscience or an aim. What then were God to such as I? 'Twere hardly worth my while to choose Of things all mortal,...peace, Like birds the charming serpent draws. To drop head-foremost in the jaws XXXV. YET if some voice that man. could trust Should murmur from the narrow... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 1851 - 422 pages
...some wild Poet, when he works Without a conscience or an aim. What then were God to such as I ? 'Twere hardly worth my while to choose Of things all mortal,...peace, Like birds the charming serpent draws, To drop head-foremost in the jaws Of vacant darkness and to cease. XXXV. YET if some voice that man could trust... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1859 - 211 pages
...conscience or an aim. What then were God to such as I ? ' i I 'Twere hardly worth my while to choose i . Of things all mortal, or to use A little patience...peace, • | Like birds, the charming serpent draws, j I: . To drop head-foremost hi the jaws Of vacant darkness and to cease. I , |i I , f ! XXXV. YET... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1859 - 520 pages
...wild Poet, when he works Without a conscience or an aim. What then were God to such as I ? 'T were hardly worth my while to choose Of things all mortal, or to use A little patience ere I die. 'T were best at once to sink to peace, Like birds the charming serpent draws, To drop head-foremost... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 364 pages
...some wild Poet, when he works Without a conscience or an aim. What then were God to such as I ? 'Twere hardly worth my while to choose Of things all mortal,...peace, Like birds the charming serpent draws, To drop head-foremost in the jaws Of vacant darkness, and to cease. XXXV. YET if some voice that man could... | |
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This round of green, this orb of flame, Fantastic beauty ; such as lurks In some wild Poet, when he works Without a conscience or an aim. What then were God to such as I... 
