... pour — Oh! then a longing like despair Is to their farthest caverns sent; For surely once, they feel, we were Parts of a single continent! Now round us spreads the watery plain — Oh might our marges meet again! Who order'd, that their longing's... The Melbourne Review - Page 911885Full view - About this book
| Matthew Arnold - 1853 - 298 pages
...marges meet again ! • Who order'd, that their longing's fire Should be, as soon as kindled, cool'd ? Who renders vain their deep desire ? — A God, a God their severance rul'd ; And bade betwixt their shores to be The unplumb'd, salt, estranging sea. VI ABSENCE. IN this... | |
| 1854 - 544 pages
...marges meet again.1 ' Who order' d that their longing's fire Should be, as soon as kindled, cool'd ? Who renders vain their deep desire ? A God, a God,...severance ruled; And bade betwixt their shores to be The unplumbed, salt, estranging sea' — Pp. 187, 188. Beautiful verses indeed. But would they have been... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1856 - 386 pages
...marges meet again ! Who order'd, that their longing's fire Should be, as soon as kindled, cool'd ? Who renders vain their deep desire ? — A God, a God their severance rul'd ; And bade betwixt their shores to be The unpluinb'd, salt, estranging sea. VI. ABSENCE. IN this... | |
| Beautiful poetry - 1858 - 350 pages
...our marges meet again ! Who order'd that their longing's fire Should be, as soon as kindled, cool'd ? Who renders vain their deep desire ? A God, a God,...severance ruled : And bade betwixt their shores to be The unplumb'd, salt, estranging sea. ELEGY ON WILLIAM COBBETT. By EBENEZER ELLIOTT. OH, bear him where... | |
| William Caldwell Roscoe - 1860 - 576 pages
...our marges meet again ! Who order'd that their longing's fire Should be, as soon as kindled, cool'd ? Who renders vain their deep desire ? A God, a God their severance rul'd ; And bade betwixt their shores to be The unplumb'd, salt, estranging sea." The main sentiment... | |
| William Brighty Rands - 1865 - 380 pages
...millions live alone. The islands feel the enclasping flow, And then their endless bounds they know. .... A God, a God their severance ruled ; And bade betwixt their shores to be The unplumb'd, salt, estranging sea." You will forgive me, I hope, for quoting those verses, and also these,... | |
| William Brighty Rands - 1865 - 394 pages
...millions live alone. The islands feel the enclasping flow, And then their endless bounds they know. .... A God, a God their severance ruled ; And bade betwixt their shores to be The unplumb'd, salt, estranging sea." You will forgive me, I hope, for quoting those verses, and also these,... | |
| Henry Allon - 1865 - 534 pages
...of a single continent. Now round us spreads the watery plain — Oh might our marges meet again ! 1 Who ordered that their longing's fire Should be, as...severance ruled ; And bade betwixt their shores to be The im plumbed, salt, estranging sea.' We shall not delay to analyse ' Merope,' as great a failure, and... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1869 - 286 pages
...again ! [BEAM. & LYE.] H Who order'd, that their longing's fire Should be, as soon as kindled, cool'd? Who renders vain their deep desire?— A God, a God...severance ruled! And bade betwixt their shores to be The unplumb'd, salt, estranging sea. 8. The Terrace at Berne. (COMPOSED TEN YEARS AFTER THE PRECEDING.)... | |
| 1899 - 978 pages
...loneliness with words which clearly declare the truth even while they misinterpret its significance : A God, a God their severance ruled ! And bade betwixt their shores to be The unplumb'd, salt, estranging sea. The possession of personality, with its sublime inferences of God,... | |
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