...I'm looking into getting my first tattoo ever, and I'd like your advice. I think it'll be a line or lines from my very favorite poem: Ulysses , by AlfredLordTennyson. Here's what I've picked out so far. Let me know if anything in particular jumps out at you, or if I'm pursuing something that's been done ...
... powerful.
So I’ll probably be posting pieces I become obsessed with from time to time. Like today:
Ulysses – LordAlfredTennyson
It little profits that an idle king,
By this still hearth,...an omnipost that included my favorites from the series but I’ll place the Ulysses reading here.
Saw “The Invention of Lying” today. The first two thirds of...
... Wordsworth, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Keats used blank verse as a major form. Shortly afterwards, AlfredLordTennyson became particularly devoted to blank verse, using it for example in his long narrative poem "The Princess", as well as for one of his most famous poems: "Ulysses". Among American poets, Hart Crane and Wallace Stevens are notable for using ...
...to be my very favorite community ever. It's high time I added to the collection of ink upon my body and the next one up is a portion of Tennyson's "Ulysses." I'm very, very attached to the following section: Come my friends. 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in ...
Yes this is a far cry from the normal Youtube antics I’d normally post, but it’s my blog and I can post what I want. :) I find this poem quite remarkable. Ulysses, by LordAlfredTennyson (1833) It little profits that an idleking, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match’d with an aged wife, I [...] http://ping.fm/uRT1A
...a poem by AlfredLordTennysonUlyssesAlfredLordTennyson It little profits...to find, and not to yield. Ulysses and the Siren I mete ... know not me. Nor I Ulysses, this collective maligned voice of ... And what of me, dear Ulysses? if not also a mere ... is merely to exist dearest Ulysses, but to shine is indeed ...
... a ringing quotation from Alfred, LordTennyson , the Victorian poet laureate ... read "Gov. Rod Blagojevich Quotes Tennyson.") The governor used the same ... losing the Democratic presidential nomination: "Ulysses." The governor quoted lines from ... follow the law. Having resigned, Ulysses and his fellow sailors ("Souls ... he might have learned what Ulyssesalready knew. http://poetryfoundation.org...
I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. ~Invictus - William Ernest Henley Also.... Forever and for ever, when I move ~Ulysses - AlfredLordTennyson
... of Arthurian legend. I don't think it actually gives anything away. And oh, look, I wrote short fic! (well, short er ). Title from the Alfred, LordTennyson poem, “Ulysses." Could go with everything else I've written, but don't hold me to it. ( All times I have enjoy'd / Greatly, have suffer'd...