Lord of
Lord of
priests delicate heard
I heard no longer The snowy-banded, dilettante, Delicate-handed priest intone.
sorrow despair unrest
Can calm despair and wild unrest Be tenants of a single breast, Or sorrow such a changeling be?
moon different cocoons
For every worm beneath the moon Draws different threads, and late and soon Spins, toiling out his own cocoon.
succeed failing
The many fail: the one succeeds.
british-historian life
To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.
british-statesman days frequently wiser
In those days he was wiser than he is now - he used frequently to take my advice.
strength rocks years
No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.
time age heirs
I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.
new-year years old-year
I stood on a tower in the wet, And New Year and Old Year met, And winds were roaring and blowing: And I said, "O years, that meet in tears, Have ye aught that is worth the knowing? Science enough and exploring, Wanderers coming and going, Matter enough for deploring, But aught that is worth the knowing?
roots tree branches
Those who depend on the merits of their ancestors may be said to search in the roots of the tree for those fruits which the branches ought to produce.
roaming limits world
Here at the quiet limit of the world.
time jewels long
Jewels five-words-long, That on the stretch'd forefinger of all Time Sparkle forever.
manners courtesy persons
The greater person is one of courtesy.
anticipate exception gulf mars mexico production
We anticipate production from the deepwater Gulf of Mexico to be back to normal, with the exception of the Shell-operated Mars project, by the end of the year,