Ulysses

Question 1

IT little profits that an idle king,By this still hearth, among these barren crags,

Answer 1

Match’d with an aged wife, I mete and dole

Unequal laws unto a savage race,

Question 2

Match’d with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race,

Answer 2

That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.

I cannot rest from travel: I will drink

Question 3

That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.

I cannot rest from travel: I will drink

Answer 3

Life to the lees: all times I have enjoy’d

Greatly, have suffer’d greatly, both with those

Question 4

Life to the lees: all times I have enjoy’d

Greatly, have suffer’d greatly, both with those

Answer 4

That lov’d me, and alone; on shore, and when

Thro’ scudding drifts the rainy Hyades

Question 5

That lov’d me, and alone; on shore, and when

Thro’ scudding drifts the rainy Hyades

Answer 5

Vex’d the dim sea. I am become a name;

For always roaming with a hungry heart

Question 6

Vex’d the dim sea. I am become a name;

For always roaming with a hungry heart

Answer 6

Much have I seen and known: cities of men

And manners, climates, councils, governments,

Question 7

Much have I seen and known: cities of men

And manners, climates, councils, governments,

Answer 7

Myself not least, but honor’d of them all;

And drunk delight of battle with my peers,

Question 8

Myself not least, but honor’d of them all;

And drunk delight of battle with my peers,

Answer 8

Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy.

I am a part of all that I have met;

Question 9

Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy.

I am a part of all that I have met;

Answer 9

Yet all experience is an arch wherethro’

Gleams that untravell’d world, whose margin fades

Question 10

Yet all experience is an arch wherethro’

Gleams that untravell’d world, whose margin fades

Answer 10

For ever and for ever when I move.

How dull it is to pause, to make an end,

Question 11

For ever and for ever when I move.

How dull it is to pause, to make an end,

Answer 11

To rust unburnish’d, not to shine in use!

As tho’ to breathe were life. Life pil’d on life

Question 12

To rust unburnish’d, not to shine in use!

As tho’ to breathe were life. Life pil’d on life

Answer 12

Were all too little, and of one to me

Little remains: but every hour is sav’d

Question 13

Were all too little, and of one to me

Little remains: but every hour is sav’d

Answer 13

From that eternal silence, something more,

A bringer of new things; and vile it were

Question 14

From that eternal silence, something more,

A bringer of new things; and vile it were

Answer 14

For some three suns to store and hoard myself,

And this gray spirit yearning in desire

Question 15

For some three suns to store and hoard myself,

And this gray spirit yearning in desire

Answer 15

To follow knowledge like a sinking star,

Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.

Question 16

To follow knowledge like a sinking star,

Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.

Answer 16

This is my son, mine own Telemachus,

To whom I leave the sceptre and the isle—

Question 17

This is my son, mine own Telemachus,

To whom I leave the sceptre and the isle—

Answer 17

Well-lov’d of me, discerning to fulfil

This labor, by slow prudence to make mild

Question 18

Well-lov’d of me, discerning to fulfil

This labor, by slow prudence to make mild

Answer 18

A rugged people, and thro’ soft degrees

Subdue them to the useful and the good.

Question 19

A rugged people, and thro’ soft degreesSubdue them to the useful and the good.

Answer 19

Most blameless is he, centred in the sphere

Of common duties, decent not to fail

Question 20

Most blameless is he, centred in the sphere

Of common duties, decent not to fail

Answer 20

In offices of tenderness, and pay

Meet adoration to my household gods,

Question 21

In offices of tenderness, and pay

Meet adoration to my household gods,

Answer 21

When I am gone. He works his work, I mine.

There lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail:

Question 22

When I am gone. He works his work, I mine.

There lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail:

Answer 22

There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners,

Souls’ that have toil’d, and wrought, and thought with me—

Question 23

There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners,

Souls’ that have toil’d, and wrought, and thought with me—

Answer 23

That ever with a frolic welcome took

The thunder and the sunshine, and oppos’d

Question 24

That ever with a frolic welcome took

The thunder and the sunshine, and oppos’d

Answer 24

Free hearts, free foreheads—you and I are old;

Old age hath yet his honor and his toil;

Question 25

Free hearts, free foreheads—you and I are old;

Old age hath yet his honor and his toil;

Answer 25

Death closes all; but something ere the end,

Some work of noble note, may yet be done,

Question 26

Death closes all; but something ere the end,

Some work of noble note, may yet be done,

Answer 26

Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods.

The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks:

Question 27

Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods.

The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks:

Answer 27

The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep

Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends,

Question 28

The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep

Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends,

Answer 28

’T is not too late to seek a newer world.

Push off, and sitting well in order smite

Question 29

’T is not too late to seek a newer world.

Push off, and sitting well in order smite

Answer 29

The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds

To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths

Question 30

The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds

To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths

Answer 30

Of all the western stars, until I die.

It may be that the gulfs will wash us down:

Question 31

Of all the western stars, until I die.

It may be that the gulfs will wash us down:

Answer 31

It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,

And see the great Achilles, whom we knew.

Question 32

It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,

And see the great Achilles, whom we knew.

Answer 32

Tho’ much is taken, much abides; and tho’

We are not now that strength which in old days

Question 33

Tho’ much is taken, much abides; and tho’

We are not now that strength which in old days

Answer 33

Mov’d earth and heaven, that which we are, we are:

One equal temper of heroic hearts,

Question 34

Mov’d earth and heaven, that which we are, we are:

One equal temper of heroic hearts,

Answer 34

Made weak by time and fate, but strong in willTo strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.