 | Wellington College - 1871 - 250 pages
...our hearts and spirits wholly To the influence of mild-minded melancholy. " Ulysses only craves " To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die." We must not treat the " Lotos-eaters " as an allegory which figures forth the human propensity to abandon... | |
 | Edward Maitland - 1871 - 488 pages
...the gold has been thrown up from a volcano, and remains much where it has chanced to fall.' BOOK V. ' My purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset and the baths Of all the western stars — It may be that the gulfs will wash us down : It may be we shall touch the... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - 1872 - 510 pages
...too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows ; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the...down ; It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And >ee the great Achilles whom we knew ; " &c. JEneaa bearing Anchisea from the flames of Troy. CHAPTER... | |
 | Nicholas Mazza - 2003 - 238 pages
...too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. —Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) (In memory of Robert F. Kennedy and Harry Chapin. — NM) appendix... | |
 | 2002 - 566 pages
...on diminishing it. So far we may strive in one faith towards one hope: It may he that the gulfs may wash us down. It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles. . . . hut something ere the end. I Some work of noble note may yet be done' ( l 894; 86). " This is... | |
 | Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - 2007 - 778 pages
...too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the...Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved... | |
 | Jasper Griffin - 2004 - 116 pages
...too late to seek a newer world, Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows: for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the...Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew , , , The Lotus-Eaters, another of Tennyson's finest poems, is also based on the events of the Odyssey,... | |
 | James Longenbach - 2009 - 139 pages
...too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the...Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Ulysses wants to die before he dies, to sail beyond the sunset before the sun sets. The wish is paradoxical,... | |
 | Mark Christopher Allister - 2004 - 292 pages
...order smite the sounding furrows; for My purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset, and the paths of all Western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs...Happy Isles, and see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides; and Tho' we are not now what strength which in old days moved earth... | |
 | Sam Pickering - 2004 - 360 pages
...late to seek JJ a newer world. / Push off, and sitting well in order smite / The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds / To sail beyond the sunset, and...the baths / Of all the western stars, until I die.'" "When I was young and first taught poetry," I continued, "I thought ^. Sam Pickering Ulysses heroic,... | |
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Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and, sitting well in order, smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down:... 
