 | William Harmon - Literary Collections - 1998 - 386 pages
...Shakespeare and other Elizabethan dramatists. Alfred, Lord Tennyson uses blank verse in his poem "Ulysses": It little profits that an idle king By this still...That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. Blason: See blazon. Blazon: A poem listing the elements of physical attraction. Andrew MarvelTs "To... | |
 | Matthew Campbell - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 292 pages
...facing an end and making arrangements for the society that has been left behind. 'Ulysses' begins, 'It little profits that an idle king, / By this still hearth, among these barren crags'. The second stanza of In Memoriam cvin has the words 'profit' and 'barren' in even closer proximity,... | |
 | Paul Negri - Poetry - 1998 - 244 pages
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ULYSSES. IT little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. 
