| Matthew Arnold - 1867 - 226 páginas
...flow Of human misery; we Find also in the sound a thought, Hearing it by this distant northern sea. The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round...Retreating to the breath Of the night-wind down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world. Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the... | |
| Robert Hall Baynes - 1880 - 674 páginas
...Syrian town ; And on his grave, with shining eyes, The Syrian stars look down. Elsewhere we read : The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round...earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furl'd J Bat now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating to the breath Of the... | |
| 1868 - 986 páginas
...name for despair. Writing on Dover Beach, and naturally meditating on tho sea, he thus mourns : — " The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round...withdrawing roar, Retreating to the breath Of the night wind down tho vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world. " Ah, love, let us be true To... | |
| 1868 - 1078 páginas
...Crucified, "Thy kingdom come," there is far other hope. And what of Mr. Arnold's despair for the world ? The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round...earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furl'd ; But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating to the breath Of the... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1869 - 286 páginas
...flow Of human misery; we Find also in the sound a thought, Hearing it by this distant northern sea. The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round...earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furl'd; But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating to the breath Of the... | |
| 1869 - 898 páginas
...flow Of human misery ; we Find also in the sound a thought, Hearing it by this distant northern sea. The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round...earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furl'd ; But now I only hear Its melancholy, long withdrawing roar Betreating to the breath Of the... | |
| 1870 - 590 páginas
...The poet is standing on Dover beach at night, and hears ' The grating roar Of pebbles which the wares suck back and fling, At their return, up the high...only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Ketreating to the breath Of the night-wind down the edges drear, And naked shingles of the world.'... | |
| Octavius Brooks Frothingham - 1871 - 690 páginas
...celestial oil no longer consents to burn even in the temple lamps. The sea of taith Which once was at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled, Now only Itts us hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating to the breath Of the night... | |
| 1882 - 966 páginas
...worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born, With nowhere yet to rest my head." or, again : "... The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round...roar, Retreating to the breath Of the night-wind, down the'vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world." Meanwhile, as the old faith began to lose power,... | |
| Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1872 - 594 páginas
...flow Of human misery ; we Find also in the sound a thought, Hearing it by this distant, northern sea, The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round...withdrawing roar, Retreating to the breath Of the night- wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world. " Ah, love, let us be true... | |
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