 In offices of tenderness, and pay Meet adoration to my 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...  The American Whig Review - Page 361845Full view - About this book
 | 1895 - 588 pages
...fitted for gentler times, but not cast in the heroic mould befitting ' him that strove with gods.' ' Most blameless is he, centred in the sphere Of common...tenderness, and pay Meet adoration to my household gods When I am gone. He works his work, I mine.' • •*•*•• ' Though much is taken much abides ; and... | |
 | England - 1849 - 792 pages
...of me, discerning to fulfil This labour, by slow prudence to make mild A rugged people, and through soft degrees Subdue them to the useful and the good....tenderness, and pay Meet adoration to my household gods When I am gone. He works his work, I mine. There lies the port : the vessel null's his sail : There gloom... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 252 pages
...whom I leave the sceptre and the isle — Well-loved of me, discerning to fulfil This labour, by slow prudence to make mild A rugged people, and thro' soft...tenderness, and pay Meet adoration to my household gods When I am gone. He works his work, I mine. There lies the port : the vessel puffs her sail : There gloom... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1843 - 256 pages
...I leave the sceptre and the isle — . Well-loved of me, discerning to fulfil This labour, by slow prudence to make mild A rugged people, and thro' soft...tenderness, and pay Meet adoration to my household gods When I am gone. He works his work, I mine. There lies the port : the vessel puffs her sail : There gloom... | |
 | 1844 - 714 pages
...whom I leave the sceptre and the isle — Well-loved of me, discerning to fulfil This labour, by slow prudence to make mild A rugged people, and thro' soft...household gods When 1 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,... | |
 | 1849 - 608 pages
...of me, discerning to fulfil This labor, by slow prudence to make mild A rugged people, and through soft degrees Subdue them to the useful and the good. Most blameless is he, centered in the sphere Of common duties, decent not to fail In offices of tenderness, and pay Meet... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
...whom I leave the sceptre and the isle — Well-loved of me, discerning to fulfil This labour, by slow prudence to make mild A rugged people, and thro' soft...tenderness, and pay Meet adoration to my household gods When I am gone. He works his work, I mine. There lies the port : the vessel puffs her sail : There gloom... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1846 - 254 pages
...whom I leave the sceptre and the isle — Well-loved of me, discerning to fulfil This labour, by slow prudence to make mild A rugged people, and thro' soft...tenderness, and pay Meet adoration to my household gods When I am gone. He works his work, I mine. There lies the port : the vessel puffs her sail : There gloom... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - Literary Collections - 1848 - 372 pages
...whom I leave the sceptre and the isle — Well loved of me, discerning to fulfill This labor, by slow prudence to make mild A rugged people, and thro' soft...tenderness, and pay Meet adoration to my household gods When I am gone. He works his work, I mine. 15* There lies the port : the vessel puffs her sail : There gloom... | |
 | Scotland - 1849 - 864 pages
...of me, discerning to fulfil This labour, by slow prudence to make mild A rugged people, and through soft degrees Subdue them to the useful and the good....tenderness, and pay Meet adoration to my household gode When I am gone. He works bis work, I mine. There lies the port : the vessel puffs his sail : There... | |
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