 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
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1899 - 344 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... | |
 | Stephen Lucius Gwynn - 1899 - 254 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... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1899 - 722 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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1899 - 276 pages
...While all things else have rest from weariness ? All things have rest : why should we toil alone, e 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... | |
 | 1908 - 434 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. Why, indeed? ask the social reformer and Mary Ann the domestic... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1907 - 628 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 - 1995 - 244 pages
...While all things else have rest from weariness? All things have rest: why should we toil alone, 60 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... | |
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