In this poem, the speaker watches as the "long day wanes" and "the slow moon climbs", and he acknowledges that "both you and I are old".
In this poem, the speaker watches as the "long day wanes" and "the slow moon climbs", and he acknowledges that "both you and I are old". However, he refuses to mourn the passage of his youth, saying that "something ere the end, some work of noble note may yet be done". He calls his friends to "seek a newer world" and hopes to "touch the Happy Isles" and see "the great Achilles" once more. FTP, name this poem in which the titular figure famously urges readers "to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield", a work of Alfred Lord Tennyson.
In this poem, the speaker watches as the "long day wanes" and "the slow moon climbs", and he acknowledges that "both you and I are old".
{Ulysses} (do not prompt on Odysseus)