 | 1850 - 654 pages
...wild poet, when he works Without a conscience or an aim. " What then were God to such as IT 'Twere 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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 236 pages
...some wild Poet, when he works Without a conscience or an aim. What then were God to such as I ? 'Twere 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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 228 pages
...some wild Poet, when he works Without a conscience or an aim. What then were God to such as I ? 'Twere 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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1851 - 234 pages
...some wild Poet, when he works Without a conscience or an aim. What then were God to such as I? 'Twere 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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 422 pages
...some wild Poet, when he works Without a conscience or an aim. What then were God to such as I ? 'Twere 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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1859 - 211 pages
...conscience or an aim. What then were God to such as I ? ' i I 'Twere 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... | |
 | 1861 - 878 pages
...some wild poet, when he worki Without a conscience or an aim. '' Then what were God to such as Т , Т were hardly worth my while to choose Of things all mortal, or to use A little patience ere I die. 4 Twer« best at once to sink to peace, Like birds the charming serpent draw« To drop head foremost... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1861 - 614 pages
...some wild poet when he works Without a conscience or an aim. " Then what were God to such as T, Twerc 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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 364 pages
...some wild Poet, when he works Without a conscience or an aim. What then were God to such as I ? 'Twere 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... | |
 | 1863 - 220 pages
...wild Poet, when he works Without a conscience or an aim. • What then were God to such as I ? 'Twere 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... | |
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This round of green, this orb of flame, 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 ? Twere... 
