 IT little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole* Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me...  Poems - Page 87by Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1843 - 231 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1849 - 792 pages
...his island-home and kingdom, pants again for enterprise — for wider fields of thought and action. " It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among then barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race. That... | |
 | 1842 - 538 pages
...will suggest the view that is taken of the character and mental state of the great wanderer : — " It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
...distant light, Or seem to lift a burthen from thy heart And leave thee freer, till thou wake refresh 'd, Then when the first low matin-chirp hath grown Full...king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match 'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep,... | |
 | 1845 - 732 pages
...brought home to the imagination, leaves upon the soul a most profound impression of the author's genius. IT little profits that an idle king, By this still...That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. 1 cannot rest from travel : I will drink Life to the lees : all times I have enjoy'd Greatly, have... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1846 - 252 pages
...blast The steep slate-quarry, and the great echo flap And buffet round the hills from bluff to bluff. ULYSSES. IT little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match 'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep,... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1848 - 372 pages
...brought home to the imagination, leave upon the soul a most profound impression of the author's genius. " ULYSSES. • " It little profits that an idle king,...among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I meet and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. I... | |
 | 1849 - 864 pages
...his island-home and kingdom, pants again for enterprise — for wider fields of thought and action. " It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match 'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race. That hoard, and sleep,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 290 pages
...blast The steep slate-quarry, and the great echo flap And buffet round the hills from bluff to bluff. ULYSSES. IT little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 300 pages
...blast The steep slate-quarry, and the great echo flap And buffet round the hills from bluff to bluff. ULYSSES. IT little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep,... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1851 - 434 pages
...the imagination, leave upon the soul a most profound impression of the author's genius. " ULYSSES. u It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags. Matched with an aged wife, I meet and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep,... | |
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