 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 shingles of the world.  Bartlett's Poems for Occasions - Page 173by Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - 2007 - 544 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | 1896 - 532 pages
...cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in. Sophocles long ago Heard it on the vEgaean, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow...long, 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... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1896 - 544 pages
...Heard it on the yEgsean, and it brought t Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow -Qf human misery ; we f Find also in the sound a thought, Hearing it by this...long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world, r ^ "\ JMI -4--i' ! '-'»,... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1896 - 244 pages
...gradual breaking-away of the faith which had yielded life and stimulus to the generations of the past. " The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round...long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world." But the utter and unrelieved... | |
 | Samuel Silas Curry - 1896 - 388 pages
...cadence alow, and bring the eternal note of sadness in. Sophocles long ago heard it on the .fflgean, and it brought into his mind the turbid ebb and flow...thought, hearing it by this distant northern sea. . . . MaUhea Arnold. THE KITCHEN CLOCK. KNITTING is the maid o' the kitchen, Milly ; doing nothing... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1896 - 244 pages
...gradual breaking-away of the faith which had yielded life and stimulus to the generations of the past. " The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round...folds of a bright girdle furl'd. But now I only hear 1 Pis- A Her. Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind,... | |
 | 1897 - 568 pages
...cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in. Sophocles long ago Heard it on the /Egean, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow...melancholy, long, 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... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1897 - 546 pages
...the high strand, Begin and cease, and then again begin, j With tremulous cadence slow, and bring I The eternal note of sadness in. Sophocles long ago...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... | |
 | John Henry Barrows - 1897 - 424 pages
...divine presence latent in the heart of reality." Philosophy of Theism, AC Fraser, p. 152. NOTE 4, p. 30. "The sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and...long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world." — Dover Beach, by... | |
 | Arthur Galton - 1897 - 140 pages
...the same ocean round us raves, But we stand mute, and watch the waves." or these from Dover Beach : " The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round...long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world." It is more convincing... | |
 | Richard D. Graham - 1897 - 564 pages
...cease, and then again begin, With tremulous cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in. ' The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round...long, 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... | |
| |
