 | Frederick Arnold - 1871 - 526 pàgines
...waters, where the sun and stars sank and were quenched. So the poet represents Ulysses as saying, " My purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset and the baths Of all the western stars until I die." Homer appears to have had some knowledge of the south and east, and his descriptions of places, though... | |
 | Living voices - 1873 - 588 pàgines
...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...us down : It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides ; and tho' We are not now... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1873 - 532 pàgines
...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 ah1 the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down,: It may be we shall... | |
 | Caroline Henderson - 2003 - 300 pàgines
...served as head of the Resettlement Administration. 16. Alfred Lord Tennyson, "Ulysses," lines 62-69: "It may be that the gulfs will wash us down; / It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, / And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. / Though much is taken, much abides; and though / We are... | |
 | 2002 - 566 pàgines
...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... | |
 | James Longenbach - 2009 - 139 pàgines
...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...us down: It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Ulysses wants to die before he dies, to sail beyond the sunset... | |
 | Jasper Griffin - 2004 - 116 pàgines
...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...us down: It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew , , , The Lotus-Eaters, another of Tennyson's finest poems,... | |
 | Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - 2007 - 778 pàgines
...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...us down; It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not... | |
 | Mark Christopher Allister - 2004 - 292 pàgines
...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...us Down: It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, and see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides; and Tho' we are not now... | |
 | Christopher M. Byron - 2004 - 416 pàgines
...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. But by whose compass was the voyage to be guided? And how would one know, when the lines were cast... | |
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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: It... 
