6, 1983 The New York Times Archives See the article in its original context from February 6, 1983, Section 11. Here sits he shaping wings to fly: His heart forebodes a mystery: He names the name Eternity. GLIMPSES OF AN ALMOST FORGOTTEN ARTISTS'COLONY ON L.I. "These things are wrapt in doubt and dread, Robert Fokkens: glimpses of a half-forgotten future (Signum Quartet) SignumQuartett 471 subscribers Subscribe 12 Share 952 views 6 years ago Robert Fokkens (b. I toil beneath the curse, but, knowing not the universe, I fear to slide from bad to worse. Tho' cursed and scorn'd, and bruised with stones:
I cannot hide that some have striven, achieving calm, to whom was given the joy that mixes man with Heaven: Who, rowing hard against the stream, saw distant gates of Eden gleam, and did not dream it was a dream. I know that age to age succeeds, blowing a noise of tongues and deeds, a dust of systems and of creeds. The meaning of GLIMPSE is to get a brief look at. "Cry, faint not, climb: the summits slope "Then comes the check, the change, the fall.ĭraws different threads, and late and soonĬry, faint not: either Truth is born beyond the polar gleam forlorn, or in the gateways of the morn. "Yea!" said the voice, "thy dream was good, If Nature put not forth her power about the opening of the flower, who is it that could live an hour? Waiting to strive a happy strife, to war with falsehood to the knife, and not to lose the good of life - Some hidden principle to move, to put together, part and prove, and mete the bounds of hate and love. The memory of the wither'd leaf in endless time is scarce more brief than of the garner'd Autumn-sheaf. Men, thro' novel spheres of thought still moving after truth long sought, will learn new things when I am not. I said, ' The years with change advance:.The years with change advance: If I make dark my countenance, I shut my life from happier chance. In the edition of 1889 the final line reads: "Account and mine, should know the like no more". Compare: "And fear not lest Existence closing your / Account should lose or know the type no more: / The Eternal Sáki from that Bowl has poured / Millions of Bubbles like us and will pour", FitzGerald, Omar Khayyám (1868). From the vaults of the British Library comes a new anthology celebrating the best works of forgotten. This truth within thy mind rehearse, that in a boundless universe is boundless better, boundless worse. Glimpses of the Unknown: Lost Ghost Stories. Tho' thou wert scatter'd to the wind, yet is there plenty of the kind. The poem's ending delivers no conclusions, and has been widely criticized - the poet finds no internal affirmation, invoking "solace outside himself". In the poem, one voice urges the other to suicide the poet's arguments against it range from vanity to desperation, yet the voice discredits all. Tennyson explained, "When I wrote 'The Two Voices' I was so utterly miserable, a burden to myself and to my family, that I said, 'Is life worth anything?'".
Tennyson wrote the poem, titled "Thoughts of a Suicide" in manuscript, after the death of his friend Arthur Henry Hallam in 1833. The Two Voices is a poem by Alfred Tennyson written between 18, published in his 1842 volume of Poems.
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