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" Listen! you hear the grating roar Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling, At their return, up the high strand, Begin, and cease, and then again begin, With tremulous cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in. "
The Influence of the Classics on the Poetry of Matthew Arnold - Page 15
by Ralph Edward Cunliffe Houghton - 1923 - 38 pages
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The Sunday at Home, Volume 41

1894 - 868 pages
...So another poet describee it, " Listen ! You hear the grating roar Of pebbles, which the waves suck back, and fling, At their return, up the high strand,...begin, With tremulous cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in. t-'ophocles, long ago, Heard it on the Jïgean, and it brought Into his...
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New Poems

Matthew Arnold - 1867 - 226 pages
...ebb meets the moon-blanched sand, Listen ! you hear the grating roar Of pebbles which the waves suck back, and fling, At their return, up the high strand,...begin, With tremulous cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in. Sophocles long ago Heard it on the JEgean, and it brought Into his mind...
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New Poems

Matthew Arnold - 1868 - 264 pages
...sweet is the night air ! Only, from the long line of spray Where the ebb meets the moon-blanch'd sand, Listen! you hear the grating roar Of pebbles which...begin, With tremulous cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in. Sophocles long ago Heard it on the ^Egaean, and it brought Into his mind...
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Narrative and elegiac poems

Matthew Arnold - 1869 - 286 pages
...sweet is the night air! Only, from the long line of spray Where the ebb meets the moon-blanch'd sand, Listen! you hear the grating roar Of pebbles which...begin, With tremulous cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in. Sophocles long ago Heard it on the •iEgamn, and it brought Into his mind...
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Zoologist: A Monthly Journal of Natural History

1869 - 488 pages
...night, each little star glittering with frost in the cold northern sky. A walk on deck, listening to " The grating roar Of pebbles which the waves draw back,...cease, and then again begin, With tremulous cadence sluw, and bring The eternal note of sadness in.'' and then to bed, rolled up in blankets on the couches...
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Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, Volume 80

1869 - 898 pages
...ebb meets the moon-blanch'd sand, Listen ! you hear the grating roar Of pebbles which the waves suck back, and fling, At their return, up the high strand,...begin, With tremulous cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in. Sophocles long ago Hoard it on the JEgean, and it brought Into his mind...
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Vashti, Or, "Until Death Us Do Part": A Novel

Augusta Jane Evans - 1869 - 490 pages
...was her habit, the lines that chanced to present themselves, — "Listen ! you hear the solemn roar Begin, and cease, and then again begin, With tremulous cadence, slow, and bring The eternal note of Badness in. Sophocles, long ago, Heard it on the .dDgean, and it brought Into his mind...
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Christus Consolator: The Pulpit in Relation to Social Life

Alexander MacLeod - 1870 - 344 pages
...poet is standing on Dover beach at night, and hears " The grating roar Of pebbles which the waves suck back and fling, At their return, up the high strand...begin, With tremulous cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in." And in that he hears a type of departing faith, for he adds: " The sea...
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The United Presbyterian Magazine

1870 - 590 pages
...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 strand...begin, With tremulous cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in.' And in that he hears a type of departing faith, for he adds : ' The sea...
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The Canadian Monthly and National Review, Volume 1

1872 - 590 pages
...meets the moon-blanched sand, Listen ! — you hear the grating roar Of pebbles which the waves suck back, and fling At their return, up the high strand,...begin, With tremulous cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in. "Sophocles long ago Heard it on the /Egean, and it brought Into his mind...
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