 | 1875 - 676 psl.
...should be till'd." Milt., Г. L., ii. 846-7. And Tennyson, In Memoriam, can. xxxiv. 4 : — '"Twerebest To drop head foremost in the jaws Of vacant darkness and to cease." WILLIAM PLATT. Conterrative Clnb. William Gifford thus translates the following passage from Juvenal... | |
 | 1850 - 654 psl.
...hardly worth my while to choose Of things all mortal, or to use A little patience ere I die; " Twere best at once to sink to peace, Like birds the charming...foremost in the jaws Of vacant darkness and to cease." Man dies; nor is there hope in dust: Yet if some voice that man could trust Should murmur from the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 272 psl.
...were hardly worth my while to choose Of things all mortal, or to use A little patience ere I die ; 'T were best at once to sink to peace, Like birds the charming serpent draws, To drop head-foremost in the jaws Of vacant darkness, and to cease. XXXV. YET if some voice that man could... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 228 psl.
...hardly worth my while to choose Of things all mortal, or to use A little patience ere I die ; 'Twere best at once to sink to peace, Like birds the charming serpent draws, To drop head-foremost in the jaws Of vacant darkness and to cease. 53 YET if some voice that man could trust... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 228 psl.
...hardly worth my while to choose Of things all mortal, or to use A little patience ere I die ; 'Twere best at once to sink to peace, Like birds the charming serpent draws, To drop head-foremost in the jaws Of vacant darkness and to cease. 5?. XXXV. YET if some voice that man could... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1851 - 234 psl.
...hardly worth my while to choose Of things all mortal, or to use A little patience ere I die; 'Twere best at once to sink to peace, Like birds the charming serpent draws. To drop head-foremost in the jaws XXXV. YET if some voice that man. could trust Should murmur from the narrow... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 422 psl.
...hardly worth my while to choose Of things all mortal, or to use A little patience ere I die ; 'Twere best at once to sink to peace, Like birds the charming serpent draws, To drop head-foremost in the jaws Of vacant darkness and to cease. XXXV. YET if some voice that man could trust... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1859 - 520 psl.
...'T were hardly worth my while to choose Of things all mortal, or to use A little patience ere I die. 'T were best at once to sink to peace, Like birds the charming serpent draws, To drop head-foremost in the jaws Of vacant darkness, and to cease. XXXV. YET if some voice that man could... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1859 - 211 psl.
...hardly worth my while to choose i . Of things all mortal, or to use A little patience ere I die ; 'Twere best at once to sink to peace, • | Like birds, the charming serpent draws, j I: . To drop head-foremost hi the jaws Of vacant darkness and to cease. I , |i I , f ! XXXV. YET... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 364 psl.
...hardly worth my while to choose Of things all mortal, or to use A little patience ere I die. 'Twere best at once to sink to peace, Like birds the charming serpent draws, To drop head-foremost in the jaws Of vacant darkness, and to cease. XXXV. YET if some voice that man could... | |
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Fantastic beauty; such as lurks In some wild Poet, when he works Without a conscience or an aim. What then were God to such as I... 
