 It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.  Translations - Page 74by George William Lyttelton Baron Lyttelton, William Ewart Gladstone - 1863 - 205 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, George Henry Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne - 1897 - 684 pages
...deep mid-ocean, wind and wave and oar; Oh rest ye, brother mariners, we will not wander more. ULYSSES IT LITTLE profits that, an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags. Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1898 - 924 pages
...flap And buffet round the hills, from bluff to bluff. ULYSSES First printed in 1842, and unaltered. IT little profits that an idle king, By this still...dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, aud sleep, and feed, and know not ine. I cannot rest from travel; I will drink Life to the lees. All... | |
 | John Oates - 1898 - 366 pages
...strife and action ; but now he feels his strength is being sapped by an indolent, self-indulgent life. " It little profits that an idle king, By this still...I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race." Caged like some bird with strong pinions, he would break from his prison and beat his way through the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1898 - 920 pages
...flap And buffet round the hills, from bluff to bluff. ULYSSES First printed in 1S42, and unaltered. IT little profits that an idle king, By this still...these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete aiid dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feud, and know not me. I cannot... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 520 pages
...hope to see my Pilot face to fac* When I have crossed the bar. — Demeter, and Other Poems. ULYSSES. It little profits that, an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match 'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1898 - 928 pages
...flap And buffet round the hills, from bluff to bluff. ULYSSES First printed in 1842, and unaltered. IT little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. I cannot rest... | |
 | Edwin Herbert Lewis - 1899 - 440 pages
...it conveys. Could any painting represent all that is suggested here ? ULYSSES ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON It little profits that an idle king, By this still...That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. . 5 I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the lees : all tiroes I have enjoy'd Greatly, have... | |
 | 1899 - 816 pages
...hail, or fire or snow; For the mighty wind arises, roaring seaward, and I go. ULYSSES (From the same) It little profits that an idle king, By this still...wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, 5 That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. I cannot rest fr6m travel : I will drink Life to... | |
 | Albert Franklin Blaisdell - 1899 - 672 pages
...ULYSSES IT little profits that, an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto...race, That hoard and sleep and feed, and know not me. 5 I cannot rest from travel : I will drink Life to the lees. All times I have enjoyed Greatly, have... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 568 pages
..."Tiresias," 1885; "Locksley Hall Sixty Years After," 1886; "The Foresters" and "The Death of (Enone," 1892.] IT little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep,... | |
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