 I have climb'd to the snows of Age, and I gaze at a field in the Past, Where I sank with the body at times in the sloughs of a low desire, But I hear no yelp of the beast, and the Man is quiet at last As he stands on the heights of his life with a glimpse...  The Life and Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson - Page 205by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1899Full view - About this book
 | 1893 - 840 pages
...sceptre, Human Soul, and rule thy Province of the brute. ii. I have climb'd to the snows of Age, and 1 gaze at a field in the Past, Where I sank with the...his life with a glimpse of a height that is higher. Still I cannot but think that already 'Tennyson's spiritualizing of the idee mkre of the new epoch... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - English periodicals - 1893 - 576 pages
...seek to drag me from the throne, Hold the sceptre, Human Soul, and rule thy Province of the brute. ' I have climb'd to the snows of Age, and I gaze at...his life with a glimpse of a height that is higher.' Now in all this keenly realized conflict there can be no momentary doubt which side the poet is taking.... | |
 | Theology - 1898 - 554 pages
...having conquered the brute element might know that it could live for ever on a higher plane, standing ' on the heights of his life with a glimpse of a height that is higher.' Beyond that the lines seem to us to contain little more than an expansion of the words in the Book... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - American literature - 1889 - 374 pages
...gaze at a field in the Past, Where I sank with the body at times ill the sloughs of a low deaire ; Bnt I hear no yelp of the beast, and the Man is quiet...his life with a glimpse of a height that is higher." 1890.] THE DIAL 281 The two other poems to which special reference must be made are those that open... | |
 | 1889 - 646 pages
...yearsback. Less weight now for the ladder-of-heaven that haugs on a star. ******** * * * I have climbed to the snows of Age, and I gaze at a field in the...heights of his life with a glimpse of a height that ishigher." Ann Arbor, March nth. 3. AJ NOTE. — I beg to assure my reader that Sextus Placitus is... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1892 - 896 pages
...seek to drag me from the throne, Hold the sceptre, Human Soul, and rule thy Province of the brute. I have climb'd to the snows of Age, and I gaze at...— AWAY. (FOR MUSIC.) WHAT sight so lured him thro' thu fields he knew As where earth's green stole into heaven's own hue, Far — far — away ? What... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - American literature - 1892 - 426 pages
...bone» on the rack? " he asks in his latest volume of verse ; and his answer is ready : " I have climbed to the snows of Age, and I gaze at a field in the...his life with a glimpse of a height that is higher." The matter of his song is that which poetry has found fit in all ages, and the song reflects, not merely... | |
 | Elizabeth Stansbury Kirkland - English literature - 1892 - 482 pages
...his nearest and dearest, and perfectly conscious to almost the very end. And so we must leave him, As he stands on the heights of his life, with a glimpse of a height that is higher.* How he himself looked forward to his passing is best told in his own words when he wrote in anticipation... | |
 | Christian union - 1892 - 404 pages
...alone embrace, Relieving where we cannot prove." And as life drew to a close with him and he reached "The heights of his life with a Glimpse of a height that is higher," his last song led up to the " endless singing " in the now familiar words — "For tho' from out our... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1893 - 356 pages
...seek to drag me from the throne, Hold the sceptre, Human Soul, and rule thy Province of the brute. n. I have climb'd to the snows of Age, and I gaze at...that is higher. FAR — FAR— AWAY, (FOR MUSIC.) TTTHAT sight so lured him thro' the fields he knew * * As where earth's green stole into heaven's own... | |
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