Mirren reads Tennyson for Colbert

The legendary dramatic actress indulges our host with a reading of lines from the poem 'Ulysses' by Alfred Lord Tennyson.

 

It little profits that an idle king, 

By this still hearth, among these barren crags, 

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

Unequal laws unto a savage race, 

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

I cannot rest from travel: I will drink 

Life to the lees: All times I have enjoy'd 

Greatly, have suffer'd greatly, both with those 

That loved me, and alo...