 | Yale University. Class of 1855 - 1859 - 84 pages
...for us. Yet the hours and days, like the three years just closed, for all of us move swiftly by. ' ' Time driveth onward fast, And in a little while our lips are dumb." And in that hour to which they hasten, when palms are peacefully folded upon the breast in the sleep... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1860 - 520 pages
...continual service, the slumberous effect of incense, and the soul-subduing power of an antique ceremonial. Let us alone. Time driveth onward fast, And in a little while our lips are dumb. Let us alone. AVhat is it that will last ? All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful... | |
 | John Nichol - Criticism - 1860 - 258 pages
...of all nations, from a sort of beauty in the contrast between gaiety and gloom on which it rests. " Death is the end of life ; ah, why should life all labour be 1 " Catullus wrote in thirteen varieties of metre. His text is very corrupt. The best restoration of... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 366 pages
...ripens in its place, Ripens and fades, and falls, and hath no toil, Fast-rooted in the fruitful soil. 4. Hateful is the dark-blue sky, Vaulted o'er the dark-blue...Death is the end of life ; ah, why .Should life all labor be ? tet us alone. Time driveth onward fast, And in a little while our lips are dumb. Let us... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 376 pages
...ripens in its place, Ripens and fades, and falls, and hath no toil, Fast-rooted in the fruitful soil. 4. Hateful is the dark-blue sky, Vaulted o'er the dark-blue...Death is the end of life ; ah, why Should life all labor be ? Let us alone. Time driveth onward fast, And in a little while our lips are dumb. Let us... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1862 - 698 pages
...ripens in its place, Ripens and fades, and falls, and hath no toil, Fast-rooted in the fruitful soil. Hateful is the dark-blue sky, Vaulted o'er the dark-blue...Death is the end of life ; ah, why Should life all labor be ? Let us alone. Time driveth onward fast, And in a little while our lips are dumb. Let us... | |
 | Sir John Skelton - Essays - 1862 - 512 pages
...touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still. OUR ROMANCE. A LETTER FROM LANCELOT. l<et us alone! Time driveth onward fast. And in a...little while our lips are dumb. Let us alone ! What pleasure can we have To war with evil ? Is there any peace In ever climbing up the climbing wave ?... | |
 | Harriet Parr - 1863 - 328 pages
...made a little necessary change in her dress, and then she left him, chanting dreamily to himself — " Death is the end of life ; ah, why, Should life all...are dumb. Let us alone. What is it that will last ? " A melancholy tone this for one so young, Rachel thought ; but for all his beauty and his joyous... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1863 - 516 pages
...ripens in its place, Ripens and fades, and falls, and hath no toil, Fast-rooted in the fruitful soil. 4' Hateful is the dark-blue sky, Vaulted o'er the dark-blue...Death is the end of life ; ah ! why Should life all labor be ? Let us alone. Time driveth onward fast, And in a little while our lips are dumb. Let us... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1864 - 404 pages
...ripens in its place, Ripens and fades, and falls, and hath no toil, Fast-rooted in the fruitful soil. 4. Hateful is the dark-blue sky, Vaulted o'er the dark-blue...are dumb. Let us alone. What is it that will last 1 All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful Past. Let us alone.... | |
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All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful Past. Let us alone. What pleasure can we have To war with evil? Is there any peace In ever climbing up the climbing wave? 
