 | 1909 - 844 páginas
...being our own corpse coffins at last, Swallowed in vastness, lost in silence, drowned in the depths of a meaningless past, What but a murmur of gnats in the gloom, of a moment's anger of bees in their hive. The thought which seems to oppress the seer is the insignificance... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1885 - 546 páginas
...voices of prayer 1 All that is noblest, all that is basest, all that is filthy with all that is fair? What is it all, if we all of us end but in being our...Silence, drown'd in the deeps of a meaningless Past ? XVIII. What but a murmur of gnats in the gloom, or a moment's anger of bees in their hive f — Peace,... | |
 | 1885 - 458 páginas
...solution which he offers may -be gathered from the concluding lines of his thoughtful piece : — " What is it all, if we all of us end but in being corpso-cuffins at last ; Swallowed in Vastness, lost in Silence, drowned in the depths of a meaningless... | |
 | 1886 - 520 páginas
...of prayer ? All that is noblest, all that is basest, all that is filthy with all that is fair ? XIV. What is it all, if we all of us end "but in being...corpse-coffins at last, Swallow'd in Vastness, lost in Silence, drown' d in the deeps of a meaningless Past ? xv. What but a murmur of gnats in the gloom, or a moment's... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1887 - 266 páginas
...the gleam of a million million of suns " ? What is it all, forsooth, if at last we end, " Swallowed in Vastness, lost in Silence, drown'd in the deeps of a meaningless Past " ? As was natural, the sequel to " Locksley Hall " was received with more than curiosity — with... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1887 - 566 páginas
...the gleam of a million million of suns " ? What is it all, forsooth, if at last we end, " Swallowed in Vastness, lost in Silence, drown'd in the deeps of a meaningless Past " ? As was natural, the sequel to " Locksley Hall " was received with more than curiosity — with... | |
 | 1889 - 1040 páginas
...aught that has been, Household happiness, gracious children, debtless competence, golden mean; . . . What is it all if we all of us end but in being our...in silence, drown'd in the deeps of a meaningless Fast ? What but a murmur of gnats in the gloom, or a moment's anger of bees in their hive? Peace, let... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1889 - 192 páginas
...prayer ? All that is noblest, all that is basest, all that is filthy with all that is fair ? XVII. What is it all, if we all of us end but in being our...Swallow'd in Vastness, lost in Silence, drown'd in XVIII. What but a murmur of gnats in the gloom, or a moment's anger of bees in their hive ? — # *... | |
 | 1890 - 644 páginas
...voices of prayer ? All that is noblest, all that is basest, all that is filthy with all that is fair? " What is it all, if we all of us end but in being our own corpse-coffins at last, Swallowed in \rastness,lost in Silence, drown'd in the deeps of a meaningless Past ? " What, but a... | |
 | 1891 - 890 páginas
...circled about the tragedy of suffering and disenchantment. Even Tennyson sadly asks in a recent poem: — "What is it all, if we all of us end but in being our own corpse-coffins at last, Swallowed in Yastness, lost in Silence, drowned in the deeps of a meaningless Past ?" Since the time... | |
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What is it all, if we all of us end but in being our own corpse-coffins at last, Swallow'd in Vastness, lost in Silence, drown'd in the deeps of a meaningless Past? 
