 TERMINUS. IT is time to be old, To take in sail : — The god of bounds, Who sets to seas a shore, Came to me in his fatal rounds, And said : ' No more ! No farther shoot Thy broad ambitious branches, and thy root. Fancy departs : no more invent ; Contract...  Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson ... - Página 186de Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | New Brunswick Theological Seminary. Alumni Association - 1898 - 84 páginas
...When Ralph Waldo Emerson was sixty-three. years old he wrote his poem called Terminus, beginning: " It is time to be old, To take in sail :— The God...Came to me in his fatal rounds, And said : No more I " But with such sentiments expressed at such an age we can have but little sympathy. Far more to... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1900 - 966 páginas
...I heard no church-bell chime ; The sea-beat scorns the minster clock And breaks the glass of Time. R V | 6 7 / Fancy departs: no more invent; Contract thy tirinament To compass of a tent. There 's not enough for... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1900 - 954 páginas
...church-bell chime ; The sea-beat scorns the minster clock And breaks the glass of Time. TERMINUS IT a time to be old, To take in sail: The god of bounds,...fatal rounds, And said: " No more ! No farther shoot ТЬт broad ambitious branches, and thy Finer departs: no more invent; Contract thy firmament To compass... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1900 - 968 páginas
....sea-beat .scorns the minster clock And breaks the glass of Time. TERMINUS IT la time to be old, To tako in sail: The god of bounds, Who sets to seas a shore,...Came to me in his fatal rounds, And said: " No more t No farther shoot Tliy broad ambitious branches, and thy root. Fancy departs: no more invent; Contract... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1901 - 964 páginas
...rock, I heard no church-bell chime; The sea-beat scorns the minster clock And breaks the glass of Time. it is closed, — 't is a far cry to Heaven, my soul, — Oh, a far cry to Heaven ! Fancy departs: no more invent; Contract thy firmament To compass of a tent. There 's not enough for... | |
 | Louis Albert Banks - 1902 - 420 páginas
...circumstances of its writing, is a very interesting and sublime production. Here is the poem: 124 " It is time to be old, To take in sail : — The god...invent ; Contract thy firmament To compass of a tent. There's not enough for this and that, Make thy option which of two ; Economize the failing river, Not... | |
 | Laurie Magnus, Cecil Headlam - 1903 - 390 páginas
...and the patriot bard In bright succession raise, her ornament and guard ! ROBERT BURNS. DECEMBER 1. TERMINUS. IT is time to be old, To take in sail :...his fatal rounds, And said : " No more ! No farther spread Thy broad, ambitious branches, and thy root. Fancy departs : no more invent, Contract thy firmament... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 348 páginas
...thrift, the sleep of cares ; For a proud idleness like this Crowns all thy mean affairs. TEEMINUS. IT is time to be old, To take in sail : — The god...his fatal rounds, And said : "No more ! No farther spread Thy broad ambitious branches, and thy root, Fancy departs : no more invent, Contract thy firmament... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1903 - 600 páginas
...the limit of his working life. He gave pathetic expression to his experience in the poem entitled " Terminus : " — " It is time to be old, To take in...Came to me in his fatal rounds, And said ' No more.' " The closing years of his life resembled an ever-deepening twilight. Hearing, sight, memory, slowly... | |
 | Alexander McKenzie - 1903 - 312 páginas
...est. Many have said it since and made it true. Let us set in opposition the beginning and ending of Terminus. " It is time to be old, To take in sail...Came to me in his fatal rounds. And said : ' No more ! ' " " As the bird trims her to the gale, I trim myself to the storm of time, I man the rudder, reef... | |
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