 The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked...  The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse - Page 370edited by - 1913 - 1023 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Mills Gayley, Clement Calhoun Young - 1904 - 722 pages
...cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in. Sophocles long ago 15 Heard it on the y£gean, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow...thought, Hearing it by this distant northern sea. w The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright... | |
 | Charles Mills Gayley, Clement Calhoun Young - 1904 - 772 pages
...cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in. Sophocles long ago 15 Heard it on the ^Egean, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow...thought, Hearing it by this distant northern sea. 20 The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright... | |
 | Charles Mills Gayley, Clement Calhoun Young - 1904 - 726 pages
...cadence slow, and bring The- eternal note of sadness in. Sophocles long ago 15 Heard it on the yEgean, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow...thought, Hearing it by this distant northern sea. 20 The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright... | |
 | 1900 - 670 pages
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 | Edward Smith Parsons - 1904 - 754 pages
...and a transforming and far-reaching imagination. Under the analogy suggested by the passage beginning "The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and...earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled," — a new aspect of his struggle is suggested such as in its poetic quality is unfamiliar... | |
 | Charles Mills Gayley, Clement Calhoun Young - 1905 - 726 pages
...cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in. Sophocles long ago 15 Heard it on the yEgean, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow...thought, Hearing it by this distant northern sea. 20 The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig - 1905 - 306 pages
...cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in. Sophocles long ago Heard it on the ^Egjean, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow...thought, Hearing it by this distant northern sea. -20 The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1905 - 312 pages
...misgiving about his own position and influence, must have touched his heart as he penned the lines : — " The sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round...shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furl'd ; 1 Professor Goldwin Smith. • God and the Bible (Preface). CH. II.] THE THESIS RESTATED ai But now... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - 1905 - 628 pages
...cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in. Sophocles long ago Heard it on the /Egcan, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow...human misery; we Find also in the sound a thought, The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1907 - 280 pages
...note of sadness in. Sophocles0 long ago 15 Heard it on the yEgaean,0 and it brought Into his mind tlie turbid ebb and flow Of human misery ; we Find also...thought, Hearing it by this distant northern sea. 20 The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright... | |
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