Poems List

To follow knowledge like a sinking star,

 

Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.

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Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough

 

Gleams that untravelled world, whose margin fades

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Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy.

 

‘Ulysses’ (1842) l. 22

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I am become a name;

 

For always roaming with a hungry heart.

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It little profits that an idle king,

 

By this still hearth, among these barren crags,

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The gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.

 

‘Tithonus’ (1860, revised 1864) l. 52

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Alone and warming his five wits,

 

The white owl in the belfry sits.

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The woods decay, the woods decay and fall,

 

The vapours weep their burthen to the ground,

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My strength is as the strength of ten,

 

Because my heart is pure.

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And the sun went down, and the stars came out far over the summer sea,

 

But never a moment ceased the fight of the one and the fifty-three.

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