 ... guile seduced, no force could violate; And, when she took unto herself a Mate, She must espouse the everlasting Sea. And what if she had seen those glories fade, Those titles vanish, and that strength decay; Yet shall some tribute of regret be paid...  De Quincey's Writings - Side 77af Thomas De Quincey - 1851Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | William Wordsworth - 1885 - 344 sider
...strength decay ; Yet shall some tribute of regret be paid When her long life hath reached its final day ; Men are we, and must grieve when even the shade Of that which once was great is passed away. TO TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE. TOUSSAINT, the most unhappy man of men ! Whether the whistling... | |
 | 1885 - 686 sider
...strength decay ; Yet shall some tribute of regret be paid When her long life hath reached its final day : Men are we, and must grieve when even the shade Of that which once was great is passed away. TO TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE. TOUSSAINT, the most unhappy man of men ! Whether the all-cheering... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1885 - 300 sider
...strength decay ; Yet shall some tribute of regret be paid When her long life hath reached its final day : Men are we, and must grieve when even the Shade Of that which once was great is passed away. SONNET. SAY, what is Honour ? — 'Tis the finest sense Of justice which the human... | |
 | William Sharp - 1886 - 424 sider
...strength decay ; Yet shall some tribute of regret bo paid When her long life hath reached its final day : Men are we, and must grieve when even the Shade Of that which once was great, is passed away. COLV. TO TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTTJRE. TOTISSAINT, thou most unhappy man of men ! Whether... | |
 | William Sharp - 1886 - 402 sider
...strength decay; Yet shall some tribute of regret be paid When her long life hath reached its final day : Men are we, and must grieve when even the Shade Of that which once was great, is passed away. 259 CCLX. TO TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE. TOUSSAINT, thou most unhappy man of men ! Whether... | |
 | Edward Hamilton Aitken - 1887 - 280 sider
...be wiped out of the earth to-day, exchange would neither rise nor fall, but has not the poet said, " Men are we, and must grieve when even the shade Of that which once was great has passed away " ? And lizards once were great. They were the aristocracy ol the earth. Not in the last... | |
 | David M. Main - 1886 - 342 sider
...strength decay ; Yet shall some tribute of regret be paid When her long life hath reached its final day : Men are we, and must grieve when even the Shade Of that which once was great is passed away. TO TOUSSAINT VOUVERTURE. HpOUSSAINT, the most unhappy man of men ! •*• Whether... | |
 | D. S. Carne-Ross - 1985 - 220 sider
...valuable, both timely and timeless — the image of political tragedy held in the mirror of poetry. Men are we, and must grieve when even the Shade Of that which once was great, is passed away. It follows from what I have said that this book looks for the Pindar who matters or... | |
 | Eva Feder Kittay - 1990 - 376 sider
...decay, — Yet shall some tribute of regret be paid When her long life hath reach'd its final day: Men are we, and must grieve when even the shade Of that which once was great is pass'd away. The first incongruity in the poem develops in lines a-4: 'the worth/ Of Venice did... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 sider
...1—2) 91 And, when she took unto herself a Mate, She must espouse the everlasting Sea. (1. 7—8) 92 o book Unbroken wisdom in a single look, Though we know well that when this f is passed away. (1. 13-14) EnRP; FaBoRV; GTBS; GTBS-P; NOBE; NoP; OBEV; OBNC; TrGrPo THE PRELUDE (the... | |
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