How dull it is to pause, to make an end, - To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use! As… — Alfred Tennyson
How dull it is to pause, to make an end, - To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use! As tho' to breathe were life.
Poems · 1842
★ 3.6Provenance
Current citation
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. "Ulysses." Alfred Tennyson: The Major Works, edited by Adam Roberts. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 22.
Original citation
Tennyson, Alfred. "Ulysses." Poems. Vol. 2, London: Edward Moxon, 1842, I. 22.