Instead of reading the last part of Tennyson's Ulysses, why not read the last part of James Joyce's Ulysses? I guarantee you will have their full attention.

Yes........

Well, that'll tell them how their professors feel, or at least their older professors. (I do love that poem, though.)

Ithaka- it's the Hallmark choice, but there's a reason for that - it can be hastening or tarrying, coming or going - and it's so much fun to read.

Frank

Frank,
Auden's riff off "Ithaka"--"Atlantis"--might be even more fun to read...
Dave

Just for the fun of it, here's the last verse of Thomas Hardy's
"An Ancient to Ancients":

And ye, red-lipped and smooth-browed, list,
Gentlemen:
Much is there waits you we have missed;
Much lore we leave you worth the knowing,
Much, much has lain outside our ken:
Nay, rush not: Time serves: We are going,
Gentlemen.