 Why are we weigh'd upon with heaviness, And utterly consumed with sharp distress, While all things else have rest from weariness? All things have rest : why should we toil alone, We only toil, who are the first of things, And make perpetual moan, Still...  Select Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson - Seite 44von Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1895 - 264 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1895 - 588 Seiten
...struggle, a weariness that tempts men to look for happiness in the idleness of contemplative repose. ' There is no joy but calm ! ' ' Why should we only toil, the roof and crown of things 1 Let us alone. What pleasure can we have To war with evil ? Is there any peace In ever climbing up... | |
 | 1849 - 792 Seiten
...distress, While all things else have rest from weariness? All things have rest : why should we toil alone? We only toil, who are the first of things, And make...brows in slumber's holy balm ; Nor hearken what the iuner spirit sings, — 4 There is no joy but calm ! ' Why should we only toil, the roof and crown... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 252 Seiten
...distress, While all things else have rest from weariness ? All things have rest : why should we toil alone, We only toil, who are the first of things, And make...; Nor steep our brows in slumber's holy balm ; Nor harken what the inner spirit sings, " There is no joy but calm ! " Why should we only toil, the roof... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1843 - 260 Seiten
...distress, While all things else have rest from weariness ? All things have rest : why should we toil alone, We only toil, who are the first of things, And make...wanderings Nor steep our brows in slumber's holy balm ; Nor harken what the inner spirit sings, " There is no joy but calm ! " Why should we only toil, the roof... | |
 | 1849 - 608 Seiten
...distress, While all things else have rest from weariness ? All things have rest: why should we toil alone ? We only toil, who are the first of things, And make...should we only toil, the roof and crown of things ? * * * * * IV. " Hateful is the dark-blue sky, Vaulted o'er the dark-blue sea. Death is the end of... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1845 - 646 Seiten
...distress, While all things else have rest from weariness? All things have rest, why should we toil alone? We only toil who are the first of things, And make...brows in slumber's holy balm; Nor hearken what the inward spirit sings — " There is no joy but calm!" Why should we only toil, the roof and crown of... | |
 | 1845 - 608 Seiten
...distress, While all things else have rest from weariness? All things have rest, why should we toil alone.' We only toil who are the first of things, And make...brows in slumber's holy balm ; Nor hearken what the inward spirit sings — " There is no joy but calm !" Why should we only toil, the roof and crown of... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 Seiten
...distress, While all things else have rest from weariness? All things have rest : why should we toil alone, We only toil, who are the first of things, And make...wanderings Nor steep our brows in slumber's holy balm ; Nor harten what the inner spirit sings, " There is no joy but calm ! " Why should we only toil, the roof... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1846 - 252 Seiten
...distress, While all things else have rest from weariness ? All things have rest: why should we toil alone, We only toil, who are the first of things, And make...should we only toil, the roof and crown of things ? 3. Lo! in the middle of the wood, The folded leaf is woo'd from out the bud With winds upon the branch,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1846 - 260 Seiten
...distress, While all things else have rest from weariness ? All things have rest : why should we toil alone, We only toil, who are the first of things, And make...perpetual moan, Still from one sorrow to another thrown : VOL. i. N Nor ever fold our wings, And cease from wanderings Nor steep our brows in slumber's holy... | |
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