 | Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell - 1994 - 580 páginas
...called for renovation through ecstasy; in "Terminus" Emerson receives a command from a different god: It is time to be old, To take in sail: The god of...Came to me in his fatal rounds, And said: "No more!" The poet's failing life-force must now be husbanded. Resentfully, the poet first blames his ancestors,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 2002 - 457 páginas
...that one passage from it has been quoted for a particular purpose, but here is the whole poem : — TERMINUS. It is time to be old, To take in sail :...farther shoot Thy broad ambitious branches, and thy rood Fancy departs : no more invent ; Contract thy firmament To compass of a tent. There 's not enough... | |
 | Fiona Capp - 2003 - 316 páginas
...been so moved by in John Kelly. Terminus, appropriately, is the Roman god of boundaries and landmarks: It is time to be old, To take in sail: The god of...Came to me in his fatal rounds, And said, 'No more!' As the bird trims her to the gale, I trimmed myself to the storm of time, I man the rudder, reef the... | |
 | Renée Rose Shield, Stanley M. Aronson - 2003 - 264 páginas
...acutely aware of their diminishing creativity. Emerson at age sixty-five declared: "It is time to be old. The god of bounds who sets to seas a shore, came to me in his fatal rounds and said: no more!" And Melville, in a letter to Hawthorne, acknowledged that his output was nearing exhaustion. He wrote:... | |
 | Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - 2007 - 778 páginas
...understand How far the unknown transcends the what we know. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW AMERICAN (1807-1882) Terminus It is time to be old, To take in sail: —...in 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... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 2004 - 457 páginas
...passage from it has been quoted for a particular purpose, but here is the whole poem: — TEBMfflU8. It is time to be old, To take in sail: — The god...of bounds, Who sets to seas a shore, Came to me in Ms fatal rounds, And said : " No more! No farther shoot Thy broad ambitious branches, and thy root.... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1967 - 572 páginas
...that one passage from it has been quoted for a particular purpose, but here is the whole poem : — TERMINUS. It is time to be old, To take in sail: —...And said : " No more ! No farther shoot Thy broad ambitions branches, and thy root. Fancy departs : no more invent ; Contract thy firmament To compass... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 336 páginas
...that of the grand climacteric, when he read to his son the poem he called " Terminus," beginning : "It is time to be old, To take in sail. The God of bounds, Who sets to seas a shore, Game to me in his fatal rounds And said, ' No more ! '" It was early in life to feel that the productive... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2007 - 329 páginas
...is, Thy thrift, the sleep of cares ; go For a proud idleness like this Crowns all thy mean affairs. TERMINUS IT is time to be old, To take in sail : — The god of bounds, Who seti to seas a shore, Came to me in his fatal rounds, And said ; * No more ! No farther spread Thy... | |
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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. 
