 We only toil, who are the first of things, And make perpetual moan, Still from one sorrow to another thrown : Nor ever fold our wings, And cease from wanderings, Nor steep our brows in slumber's holy balm ; Nor harken what the inner spirit sings, "There...  The Williams Quarterly - Page 2401857Full view - About this book
 | Charles Kingsley - 1852 - 390 pages
...consumed with sharp distress, While all things else have rest from weariness ? All things have rest : why should we toil alone ? We only toil, who are the first of things, And make perpetual moan, Still from one sorrow to another thrown : Nor ever fold our wings, And cease from wanderings ; Nor... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...consumed with sharp distress, While all things else have rest from weariness. All things have rest, why should we toil alone? We only toil who are the first of things, And make perpetual moan, Still from one sorrow to another thrown: Nor ever fold our wings, And cease from wanderings, Nor steep... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1854 - 286 pages
...consumed with sharp distress, While all things else have rest from weariness ? All things have rest : why should we toil alone, We only toil, who are the first of things, And make perpetual moan, Still from one sorrow to another thrown : Nor ever fold our wings, And cease from wanderings, Nor steep... | |
 | Bayard Taylor - 1855 - 502 pages
...that of the " Lotos-Eaters," and the feeling of these lines, not the words, was with me constantly : " Why should we toil alone, We only toil, who are the first of things, And make perpetual moan, Still from one sorrow to another thrown ; Nor ever fold our wings And cease from wanderings, Nor steep... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1856 - 400 pages
...consumed with sharp distress, While all things else have rest from weariness ? All things have rest: why should we toil alone, We only toil, who are the first of things, And make perpetual moan, Still from one sorrow to another thrown : Nor ever fold our wings, And cease from wanderings, Nor steep... | |
 | Bayard Taylor - 1856 - 472 pages
...the feeling of these lines, not the words, was with me constantly : " Why should we toil alone, \Ve only toil, who are the first of things, And make perpetual moan, Still from one sorrow to another thrown ; Nor ever fold our wings And cease from wanderings, Nor steep... | |
 | 1857 - 398 pages
...gift of Truth that must be won, has asked, — " Why -liuiilri we toil alone, We only toil who are ihe first of things, And make perpetual moan." — But...alone to faith and says — " Make me a cottage in Ihe vale— Where I may mourn and pray. Yet pull not down my palace lowers that are So lightly, beautifully... | |
 | Benjamin John Wallace, Albert Barnes - 1858 - 720 pages
...consumed with sharp distress, While all things else have rest from weariness ? All things have rest : why should we toil alone, We only toil, who are the first of things, And make perpetual moan, Still from one sorrow to another thrown : Nor ever fold our wings, And cease from wanderings, Nor steep... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 366 pages
...consumed with sharp distress, While all things else have rest from weariness ? All things have rest : why should we toil alone, We only toil, who are the first of things, And make perpetual moan, Still from one sorrow to another thrown : Nor ever fold our wings, And cease from wanderings, Nor steep... | |
 | George William Lyttelton Baron Lyttelton, William Ewart Gladstone - 1861 - 168 pages
...consum'd with sharp distress, While all thing's else have rest from weariness ? D All things have rest : why should we toil alone, We only toil, who are the first of things, And make perpetual moan, Still from one sorrow to another thrown : Nor ever fold our wings, And cease from wanderings : Nor... | |
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